2019 Media Literacy Week Resources and more!

Monthly Update | August 2019

October 21-25, 2019

Media Literacy Week got a facelift! This year is the 5th Annual U.S. Media Literacy Week and we have released a brand new website to celebrate! The 2019 toolkit is now available along with MLW logos, memes, and social media graphics for download ! We'll be adding more resources to help you plan amazing MLW events, so check back often for updates! Questions? Email us at [email protected] .

Media Literacy in the News

Wired : Food Pyramid for Kids’ Media Consumption

In this article, Wired introduces children’s media consumption guidelines organized into a food pyramid-like structure which classifies different types of media use into categories including "Use Sparingly," "Use Occasionally," "Use Moderately," and "Use Freely." [ read more ]

US News and World Report : A Sneaky Way Social Media Is Warping Body Image

This article from US News and World Report outlines the negative ways social media and virtual “influencers” can create unhealthy, negative perceptions about body image. The author argues that, “Media literacy has been shown to protect women from the negative effects of viewing ideal images on social media.” [ read more ]

Legislative News

Senator Klobuchar (D-MN) Introduces Digital Citizenship and Media Literacy Act

U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) introduced the Digital Citizenship and Media Literacy Act, which would create a grant program at the Department of Education to help develop state-wide media literacy education guidelines, incorporate media literacy into curriculums, hire educators experienced with media literacy, and promote educator professional development in media literacy across grades K-12 . [ read more ]

EDC Expert Testifies on Urgent Need for Media Literacy

On July 9, EDC Senior Research Associate Wendy Rivenburgh testified before the Massachusetts State Legislature’s Joint Education Committee on why it is vital to integrate media literacy skills into K–12 education. Two bills related to strengthening media literacy education in Massachusetts public schools, H.561 and S.259 , were referred to the Committee for consideration in January 2019. [ read more ]

M-Passioned: Meet Our Members

Jimmeka Anderson

Founder and Executive Director,

I AM not the Media, Inc.

" Recently, I developed a program for my nonprofit in partnership with The North Carolina Humanities Council, titled the “Cyber Citizen Series” which received the 2019 Harlan Joel Gradin Award for Excellence in the Public Humanities from The North Carolina Humanities Council’s Board of Trustees. The Cyber Series program provided three of Charlotte’s most economically disadvantaged high schools, West Charlotte High School, Vance High School and West Mecklenburg High School, each with six educational critical media literacy workshops that focused on social media usage and engagement. Participating teens learned about the media’s influence on mental health, social media safety, cyber-bullying and fake news. The series concluded with an exhibit of photo advocacy campaigns designed by workshop participants to help spread awareness to other teens. " [ read more ]

Calendar

Global Media and Information Literacy Week Conference

Gothenburg, Sweden

Sept 24-26

[ learn more ]

Connected Learning

Summit 2019

University of California

Irvine, CA

Oct. 3-5

[ learn more ]

Canadian Media Literacy Week

Various Locations

Oct 7-11

[ learn more ]

US Media Literacy Week

Various locations

Oct 21-25

[ learn more ]

Northeast Regional Media

Literacy Conference

Rhode Island College

Providence, RI

Nov 8-9

[ learn more]

Family Online Safety Institute

2019 Conference

Washington, D.C.

Nov 21

[ learn more ]

NCTE Annual Convention

Baltimore, MD

Nov 21-24

[ learn more ]

JEA/NSPA Fall National High School Journalism Convention

Washington, D.C.

Nov 21-24

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2019 NCSS/NCGE/TCSS Conference

Austin, TX

Nov 22-24

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Do you have event or other organizational information you would like included in our Monthly Update? Email us with the subject "Update."

Next submission deadline:

September 6, 2019

Events & Opportunities

Apply: MediaWise Teen Fact-Checking Network

MediaWise is looking for middle and high school students interested in fact-checking misinformation on social media. For this 10 week session, students will be asked to contribute at least two fact-checks a month in the form of short videos for MediaWise’s Instagram. This is a paid position. Submission deadline: Sept 3

[ learn more ]

Symposium: Technology, New Media and Virtue

Join the McCandlish Phillips Journalism Institute and the Acton Institute in New York City for a symposium addressing the intersection of technology, new media, and virtue in the 21st century. Tickets are $20, and a student discount is available for $10. Event date: Sept 7 [ learn more ]

Apply: WNET Youth Advisory Board

Do you know a high school student in New York City who wants to make a difference in their community and learn about public media? WNET New York Public Media is looking for a small group of students, in 9th grade through early college, from across New York City to serve on the advisory board of Youth Collective , a new Gen Z media and leadership initiative. The advisory board will meet once a month to help shape activities for this year. To apply, students should complete this form . If you have any questions, please email Youth Collective at [email protected] .

Submission deadline: Sept 13

CFP: Preparatory Action on Media Literacy for All

The general objectives of this call for proposals is to increase the level of media literacy in Europe, to test the scalability and usefulness of the actions developed in this context, and to pursue further methodological innovation and enhanced cross-border cooperation. The proposals should demonstrate how the tools and activities proposed may directly or indirectly benefit the target group of citizens of all ages lacking media literacy skills and in particular the skills needed to critically evaluate content accessed via social media.

Submission deadline: Sept 30 [ learn more ]

Help Needed Developing ML Course

for Teens in Poland

Media Literacy project in Wroclaw, Poland run by the student organization AIESEC is looking to partner with educators in the United States to develop a media literacy course for teenagers. Contact Tarang Agrawal via email at [email protected] or via WhatsApp +48-576637253.

Resources

California Announces New Media Literacy Resource Library

The California State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Tony Thurmond, announced the California Department of Education (CDE) has created a comprehensive online media literacy resource page for educators. The page provides access to free K–12 resources, instructional materials, lesson plans, and curriculum curated by a variety of recognized experts in the area of media literacy.

[ learn more ]

The News Provenance Project

The New York Times Research & Development team is launching The News Provenance Project to experiment with product design and user-facing tools to try to make the origins of journalistic content clearer to audiences. The first part of the project involves exploring a blockchain-based system for recording and sharing metadata about media, images and videos in particular, published by news organizations and conducting user experience research to identify the types of signals that can aid users in recognizing authentic media.

[ learn more ]

The Privacy Project

In response to companies and governments pushing the boundaries of privacy with evolving technology, the New York Times has launched The Privacy Project, a months long project to explore technology and where it’s taking us, and to convene debate about how it can best help realize human potential. The project curates articles about the basics of privacy and technology, think pieces about why privacy matters, debates about solutions, and calls to action. [ learn more ]