Seattle School District is suing social-media giants, but teaching media literacy could do a lot more good than a doomed court case Seattle School District, with a 2022 operating budget of $1.14 billion, is taking ...
Millions of Americans now turn to social media for news, at least sometimes, and it’s clear that much of the “news” that they consume is not journalism. came|:D:?7@C>2E:@? 😀 6?56>:4 E@ D@4:2= >65:2 A=2E7@C>D 2?5[ ...
It’s pretty much an axiom among history teachers: Don’t put your thumb on the scale when discussing political current events with K-12 students. Make sure all students feel safe voicing their opinions. Give students a ...
Deep within a public library in Maryland, pinned to the wall of a room called the Innovation Lab, is a photograph that will cause you to look twice. It shows an adorable little boy in ...
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The media that people consume inform a large part of their everyday life, including how they view others. A pair of recent studies from the University of Kansas shows that a ...
(TNS) — With the Internet and social media now firmly established as dominant places to get news and info, New Jersey may soon create standards for students in all grades to learn how to discern ...
With increased screen time due to the coronavirus pandemic, youth are exposed to a volatile news cycle filled with political and racial division, according to Belmont resident Erin McNeill, founder of Watertown-based Media Literacy Now. ...
A new Illinois law allows high schools to teach media literacy to students in all subjects. In case skeptics are tempted to portray this as some kind of underground conspiracy to indoctrinate kids, it’s exactly ...
The Instagram headline was pithy and alarming: “Head of Pfizer Research: Covid Vaccine is Female Sterilization.” And the report, from a murky source, could have had real-world consequences, coming in 2020, just as the US ...
The Iluminati, the “faked” 1969 moon landing, reported alien sightings: These aren’t generally topics that come up in the average high school social studies or English class. If they do, teachers may feel compelled to ...
