In an age of misinformation, rapidly changing technology, one major part of the cultural reckoning with that fact is media literacy. That’s the idea that people should be able to not just find and understand ...
Earlier this month, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy signed a law, passed with bipartisan support, making New Jersey the first state to require media literacy for K-12. Illinois, to its credit, passed a law in ...
Good Wednesday morning, Illinois. About Tuesday’s primary: Trump’s candidates keep chalking up wins, but the headwinds facing Democrats appear to have eased, via POLITICO. PROGRAMMING NOTE: Illinois Playbook won’t publish Monday, Aug. 29, to Monday, ...
CHICAGO– Unless a judge steps in, Illinois is poised to become the first state to completely eliminate cash bail, expanding an approach that has seen some success across the country even as it’s been vilified ...
During his senior year at Naperville Central High School in 2020–21, Braden Hajer helped pass House Bill 234, mandating that every public high school in Illinois include a unit of media literacy education in its ...
Public high schools in the Illinois Valley are ahead of the curve when it comes to teaching media literacy in the classroom. After a new requirement was passed in Illinois to require media literacy instruction ...
When Dane Erbach was in middle school during the mid 1990s, before the information superhighway rolled through, students turned to library books and encyclopedias for facts. Today, students are likely to get their information first ...
(WTVO) — Illinois is the first state in the country to require media literacy education to be taught in high schools. Branden Hayjer is a recent graduate from Naperville Central High School. He reached out ...
A new bill would require Illinois school districts to add media literacy instruction as part of their computer literacy curriculum. Reset checks in with a co-sponsor of the legislation and a media literacy expert for ...
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