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“When you see the branding of I AM not the MEdia, it immediately makes media literacy feel ‘cool’ to the teen audience it serves and to anyone that encounters it. The organization not only pushes the educational component of media literacy, but makes media literacy more of a mindset and movement that anyone can join by wearing a shirt or connecting online. The accessibility of I AM not the MEdia to the public is a major stand out component as the organization provides on-the-go and ready-to-implement learning experiences for communities any time and any place.” Read the full interview here.
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Young Voter Engagement In This Year's Election
In this radio segment with NPR, the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning & Engagement (CIRCLE) at Tufts University explores how young voters may impact November's election. [listen here]
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A perfect '20 storm: Lack of both civic engagement and media literacy
To build Generation Z into the next group of civic leaders, we need to focus on how we can provide the foundation they need to address issues today and in the future, argues Nick Farrell, of Bites Media, in this opinion piece in The Fulcrum. The solution to civic and news disengagement is to focus on context, he says.
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Students Need Expanded Skills to Compete in a Digital World
This blog post from the Center for Intellectual Property Understanding argues that media literacy and intellectual property literacy skills are needed to think critically and act ethically about information, communications, and property rights that affect people, creativity, and commerce. [read more]
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Webinar: Media Literacy Entrepreneurs
September 30 @ Noon ET
This webinar with Media Education Lab showcases the efforts by entrepreneurs who have led media literacy programs and services in schools, libraries, settlement houses, museums, and in other community organizations. NAMLE member Jayne Cubbage will moderate a discussion with NAMLE members Amy Jussel, founder of ShapingYouth.org, Jaimie Schmitz, a Learning Media Producer at Bellevue University, and Michael Danielson, an English and media teacher at SeaPrep, on the benefits and challenges of being a media literacy entrepreneur. [learn more]
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Text-Message Course: Prep for the Polls
The MediaWise Voter Project has partnered with Arist to create a text-message course to teach first-time voters how to fact-check the election on social media. For 10 days, first-time voters will receive a text message each day, with 5 minutes of info to help them feel confident as they cast their vote for the first time. They’ll also receive custom messages teaching participants how to find reliable and accurate election information online. [learn more]
Fact-Checking Certificate
This online fact-checking course from MediaWise will help people figure out what is fact and what is fiction as people aged 18-22 years old vote for the first time in 2020. The fact-checking certificate program is a four-module, self-directed, online course through Poynter’s NewsUniversity. The certificate is made available tuition-free to the first 1,333 students. Launch date: October 5. [ learn more] |
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Virtual Field Trip: Film Festival
October 8-18
California Film Institute Education is offering 10 days of free online screenings of 17 different narrative features, documentaries, and shorts programs curated from the 43rd Mill Valley Film Festival program. Programs are all free and available to students anywhere in the United States and include panel discussions for grades 1–12 in a variety of subject areas, including pre-recorded Q&As with filmmakers and supplemental curriculum resources. [learn more]
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Webinar: Representation in Children’s Media
October 7 @ 10 a.m. ET
This webinar, moderated by Sherri Hope Culver, director of the Center for Media and Information Literacy (CMIL) at Temple University, will focus on how children’s views on race, ethnicity and identity are shaped by what they see in media. The discussion will look at how these representations influence what children understand about the “other” and cross-cultural understanding. The panel is part of a series of intercultural dialogues on media and information literacy by UNESCO.
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Social Justice Curated Playlists
Critical Media Project offers a range of curated playlists of media that cover gender, race & ethnicity, class, sexuality, religion, age, and disability, as well as other focused topics that may be germane to school curriculum (e.g. immigration, bullying, and self-esteem). There is also a playlist centered on “Black Protest and Social Movements” to tie into current events and to think about the way different media genres have historically framed and represented ideas about protest, activism, and social change specifically tied to Black identity. [learn more]
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Survey: How the Media Has Covered the Issue of Systemic Racism and the Police
From Jacob Blake, to George Floyd, to Breonna Taylor, 2020 has seen immense pressure to re-examine how the police interact with society. The Factual set out to survey how both left- and right-leaning media have covered the issue of systemic racism in the police: from its definition, to the evidence of its existence, to its skeptics, to the steps necessary to better understand the issue and how to address it. [learn more]
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The World Through My Eyes Project
The World Through My Eyes, a collaboration between BYkids and PenPal Schools, connects students ages 12 through 18 to learn about and discuss documentary films made by young people from different communities around the world. Students choose from multiple project options and share their work with classmates and other students in the PenPal Schools community. To help students create their projects, each student collaborates with peers from around the world through a series of online lessons. [learn more]
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Rep Us: Share the Message!
The Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning & Engagement (CIRCLE) at Tufts University created a series of shareable social media graphics for Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram to highlight key connections between youth media creation and electoral participation. [learn more]
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Lesson: Digital Skills for Democracy
Developed in collaboration with Elections Canada, this lesson from MediaSmarts gives students in grades 9-12 hands-on instruction in finding and verifying information about elections and politics. This tech-free activity walks students through real and hypothetical scenarios that help them practice five quick and easy steps for recognizing good information. [learn more]
Reality Check: Authentication and Citizenship
In this lesson from MediaSmarts, students in grades 9-12 consider the ways in which misinformation can have an impact on history and politics. After discussing a number of historical examples of misinformation, they examine the ways in which news sources may be biased and use an interactive online game to practice skills in getting more context on a story. [ learn more]
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Podcast: Is that a fact?
The News Literacy Project's new podcast features experts who address the question, “How can American democracy survive and thrive in our toxic information environment?” The 10-episode season will include conversations with leading American thinkers, journalists, foreign policy experts, psychologists and authors. It will seek to help listeners understand how they can become part of the solution to the misinformation crisis. [learn more]
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Tip Sheet: How to Talk to Friends and Family Who Share Misinformation
This tip sheet from PEN America will provide suggestions on how to engage with friends and family members who spread misinformation online and empower them to use tools to conduct their own fact-checks going forward. [learn more]
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Leadership Changes Announced
The Jacob Burns Film Center announced that Margo Amgott has been appointed Interim Executive Director and Sean Weiner was promoted to the newly created position of Director of Programs, Media Arts Lab. [learn more]
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Executive Director
Michelle Ciulla Lipkin
Associate Director
Donnell Probst
Program Assistant
Kyle Plantz
Executive Board
Tony Streit, President
David Kleeman, Vice President
Gonca Latif-Schmitt, Treasurer
Dr. Kimberly Moffitt, Secretary
Erin Reilly, Past President
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WANT TO BE FEATURED IN THE NEXT
ORGANIZATIONAL PARTNER BULLETIN?
If you have something you would like to share in our next Organizational Partner Bulletin, please email the details, including logos and photos, to Kyle Plantz, NAMLE's Program Assistant, at [email protected] with the subject line "Org Partner."
Next Submission Deadline:
November 14, 2020*
*If you are currently an Organizational Partner that wants to share something before our November Organizational Bulletin, email us and we can share it via social media. In the meantime, make sure you sign up for Media Literacy Week!
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