In our modern era, human attention is nearly constantly occupied with media, such as news articles, social media, television, podcasts and other forms of content. This media consumption plays a major ...

Common Sense Media breaks media verification into four steps using the SIFT method, a routine that asks readers to Stop, Investigate the source, Find better coverage, and Trace claims to their ...

Access -- Why digital and media literacy -- Research as authentic inquiry -- Analyze -- Critical questions, close reading -- The power of representation -- Create -- composing with media across the ...

New technologies are complicating efforts to teach the scrolling generation to think critically and defensively online.

Media literacy is the process of critically assessing information found on the internet. Advocates say media and news literacy is desperately needed in K-12 classrooms around the country. Data ...

Over the past couple years, students have been inundated with a near-steady stream of information and headlines about politics, racial and social unrest, the pandemic, and more. Helping students form ...

Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, online researchers say disinformation about abortion has flooded websites and social media, and some of that disinformation is influencing public ...

The Show Me State is poised to let a handful of public schools figure out the dos and don’ts of teaching digital media literacy. Missouri state Legislature House and Senate bills calling for a “media ...

Explore foundational American principles, such as liberty, self-governance, and democracy, through media-making with your middle or high school students this school year. PBS LearningMedia’s The ...

Last month, the National Association for Media Literacy Education (NAMLE) introduced its annual conference by announcing, “Media literacy has many connections with social justice; in fact, many would ...

I share one academic’s experience of teaching media literacy. I describe what two librarians are doing to promote information literacy. I point you to other resources on countering disinformation.