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 ...
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 ...
(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 ...
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 ...
As a Social Studies teacher, I struggled with the current political climate and the power and limits of the Internet and modern media. Students show up to class and eagerly show me the latest political ...
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 ...
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 U.S. ...
Today, you can’t keep children away from the internet. Sooner or later, they will have online profiles and social media accounts and will need to use the web for education and information. Of course, the ...
If you are somebody who works with children and youth, you may have noticed that they go nowhere without their mobile phones. However, while the younger generation is proficient technologically, its members can still quite ...
