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onthly Update
Donnell Probst
Content Editor
Executive Director
Michelle Ciulla Lipkin
Board of Directors
Erin Reilly
President
Sherri Hope Culver
Past President
Kelly Whitney
Vice President
Joanne Parsont
Secretary
Tony Streit
Treasurer
Kristi Avram
David Kleeman
Cynthia Lieberman
Lynette Owens
Nicole Starr
Federico Subervi
DC Vito
Leadership Council
Rachel Arteaga
Caitlin Barry
Natasha Casey
Belinha S. De Abreu
David Cooper Moore
Elizaveta Friesem
Yonty Friesem
Kelsey Greene
Jaclyn Kahn Siegel
Emily Keating
David Magolis
Dee Morgenthaler
Tina Peterson
Theresa Redmond
Rebecca Reynolds
Laurie Chin Sayres
Eveline
Schilder
Julie Smith
Benjamin Thevenin
Jiwon Yoon
Student Leadership Council
Emily Bailin
Catherine Burgess
Roma Dash
Nneka Gigi
Jasmin Goodman
Donnell Probst
Alexis Romero
Zoey Wang
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The purpose of
media literacy education is to develop the habits of inquiry and skills of expression needed by critical thinkers, effective communicators, and active citizens in today's world.
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What's new with you?
Tell us and we'll include it in a future issue of Update. We are especially interested in updates from our student, individual and organizational members.
Next submission deadline:
Friday, January 5
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Support Media Literacy Education
In 2016, we made NAMLE membership FREE so that we can build a movement for media literacy education around the country. Since then we have grown from 300 members to over 4,000 members.
While membership is free, our work is not. We must find alternative ways to raise funds in order to continue to support our members and partners and to organize the national conference and U.S. Media Literacy Week in 2018.
We cannot do this work without your help.
Please take a moment to show your support for a media literate society by donating to NAMLE.
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Headlines
HuffPost: Media Literacy
Combats Fake News
This article in the Huffington Post discusses a recent study from the University of Illinois which investigated how knowledge of the media affected participants perspective of bias in the news. The study found that when participants were media literate, they were less likely to believe conspiracy theories, even if those theories supported their personal views.
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Teaching kids to be media-savvy
The Star Online makes the argument for not just teaching kids how to use technology, but how to evaluate and analyze the media they consume using that technology.
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Tampa Bay News: Commit to Media Literacy
Tampa Bay News journalist Ernest Hooper points to the lack of understanding of how the media works as a driver of disappointment or negative views about the media. In the article,
Mark Newton, the student media adviser at Mountain Vista High School in Highlands Ranch, Colorado, calls for a stronger focus on media literacy.
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Mark Your Calendars
35th Annual Midwest Education Technology Community (METC) Conference
6th Annual International Critical Media Literacy Conference
Savannah, GA
Transmedia Literacy International Conference
Barcelona, Spain
U.S. Media Literacy Week 2018
Nationwide
Nov 5-9, 2018
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M-Passion
ed: Meet our Members
Senior Lecturer
Communication and Media Studies
School for Health and Welfare
Halmstad University
"At the moment I am interested in media literacy interventions and preparing a project to investigate how children can be invited to take active participation in the design and development of media literacy interventions. There has been a lot of hype around media literacy here in Sweden for a couple of years and programs, campaigns, and curricula are being developed here and there. These are, however, seldom referred to as 'interventions' and my ambition is to introduce that terminology in order to find a more coherent approach.
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Want to recommend an M-Passioned NAMLE member who should be in our next feature? Contact Evelien Schilder at
[email protected].
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Opportunities
Apply: Youth Takeover of KQED
For one week in April 2018, select youth voices will take over segments of KQED News focusing on the topics of immigration and access to higher education. KQED is looking for 20 Bay Area educators who teach grades 8-12 and who are interested in having their students create writing and audio for KQED broadcasts. This pilot is a paid opportunity for teachers that begins in January 2018.
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CFP: Connected Learning Summit
The First Annual Connected Learning Summit (CLS), to be held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab, represents a merger between three community events with this shared vision and values: the Digital Media and Learning Conference, the Games + Learnin
g + Society Conference, and Sandbox Summit.
The conference is now accepting proposal submissions of academic papers and project presentations as well as more innovative session formats which focus on digital technologies for learning, educational and commercial games and other media, innovative tech-infused curricula, and theoretical and/or empirical exploration of digital media and technology for learning.
The Center for Intercultural Dialogue (CID) has organized its first ever video competition, open to students enrolled in any college or university during the 2017-2018 academic year. The theme of the competition is, "What does Intercultural Dialogue Look Like?" Submissions will be accepted beginning April 15.
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Resources
C-SPAN Classroom
C-SPAN Classroom offers free,
video-based materials  for social studies teachers including video clips and lesson plans. Follow the link to see a list of media literacy-related resources from C-SPAN Classroom.
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MEF: Media Literacy Resource Page
The Media Education Foundation has created a page of resources aimed at helping teachers understand how to incorporate media literacy resources into their classroom.
This page includes a general overview of media education, media literacy films and videos, and links to blog posts, handouts, posters, and other video resources.
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ISL has created a new mobile application for iOS  devices which presents users with news stories populated from sites like Snopes, PolitiFact, and FactCheck.org, testing players ability to identify fake news stories by swiping left if it's real or swiping right if it's fake. The app also provides a variety of resources and the ability to connect with media literacy organizations like The News Literacy Project. [
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Carolina Classrooms: Digital Literacy
Frank W. Baker was included in the recent SC-ETV (PBS affiliate) educational series, "Carolina Classrooms" episode on digital literacy. The episode can be streamed from the E-TV website.
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Employment Opportunities
Health Literacy Program Associate
Health Literacy Media
Assistant or Associate Professor - Media and Democracy
University of Texas
Austin, TX [
more info
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Teacher - Media Literacy
Glendale Elementary School District #40
For more listings, visit our organizational
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