Economics teacher offers manual on consumer economics and media literacy for middle school teachers
By Jim Wasserman, economics teacher, author, MLN guest blogger Like most economics teachers, I presented the consumer world to students as a place they would be a part of in the future, a place filled with rational decision-making base
You are being manipulated! The Propaganda Game teaches you HOW (and how to avoid it)
By Layman (Buzz) Allen, president, Accelerated Learning Foundation We're all exposed to propaganda techniques every day: from politics and advertising to peer pressure and personal relationships – whenever someone tries to influ
An anti-social social networking site that could promote media literacy
Our blogger, Julia Bell, has a recommendation for a site that can help you clear your bookmarks, and your head... By Julia Bell After I realized I was forgetting some excellent online journalism I was reading, I started copying links o
Social Good startup seeks teachers for pilot to measure Media Literacy
A message from John Pettus, Founder and CEO of Fiskkit: Fiskkit is a social good startup elevating our public discourse by allowing readers of online articles comment on individual sentences and tag them for facts and logic. This fall,
Bosnia and Herzegovina educators launch Media Literacy association
This guest post come from our allies in Bosnia and Herzegovina, teachers and journalists, who are seeking funding for the association and to bring their program to classrooms. BE MEDIA LITERATE. BE COOL! By Ana Galić Media Literacy is
Media observations: Groping is funny! Also, sexist abusers in Hollywood victimize all of us
By Erin McNeill, Founder, Media Literacy Now Just weeks after Al Franken announced he would resign his Senate seat for his groping ways, a Boston gynecological surgeon thought it would be funny to include in his presentation to a roomf
Health class requires Media Literacy, too
Teaching Media Literacy skills has been proven to strengthen many aspects of health education; research has proven better decision-making around alcohol, drug, and tobacco use when students' health education includes Media Literacy cri
Seeking the highest and best purpose of public education
bdpictures/flickr By Erin McNeill There’s a parable about filling a jar with rocks, pebbles and sand. If you fill the jar with the sand and pebbles first, you can’t get any rocks in. So you put the rocks in first, then the pebbles, the
Using fake news to teach web credibility to middle school students
By Bob Thomas, Education Technology Specialist at Michael Driscoll School, a K-8 school in Brookline, Massachusetts Fake news has been a topic of great interest in the past few months. Recently, I took advantage of the phenomenon and t
Let’s not let fake news get in the way of comprehensive media literacy education
By Erin McNeill So, fake news would be the issue that finally raised media literacy in the public consciousness. In the media literacy world, no one had predicted it. Some of us thought the public health issues would be the thing. Alth
Tribeworthy team creates a social network where everyone can practice media literacy
By Jared Fesler and Chase Palmieri As the founders of Tribeworthy – two business graduates and a software developer – we may seem an unlikely team to challenge the news media solutions being offered today. In fact, people keep asking,
The story of Radio Rookies curriculum: Lesson plans for teaching students to become makers
By Kaari Pitkin, Senior Producer of Radio Rookies Corinne Bobb-Semple reporting her story in Brooklyn. In the ten years I’ve been Senior Producer of WNYC’s Peabody award-winning initiative, Radio Rookies, we’ve worked with hundreds o