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Monthly Update | September 2019

Media Literacy Week 2019:

ONE Month Away!

Media Literacy Week 2019 is only one month away ! Have you started planning an event or activity to help bring awareness to media literacy during MLW?! Need help with the planning process? No problem! The MLW website has tons of age and audience-appropriate resources to help you get started! Also, be sure to check out our FREE toolkit , which also has tons of great ideas to help you get involved! Don't forget to sign up your organization as an MLW Partner and register your event! Do you still have questions? Email us at [email protected] !

Media Literacy in the News

NYT : "How Might A.I. Label You?"

Facial recognition and other A.I. technologies learn their skills by analyzing vast amounts of digital data. Drawn from old websites and academic projects, this data often contains subtle biases and other flaws. ImageNet Roulette, a digital art project and viral selfie app, exposes how biases have crept into the artificial intelligence technologies changing our lives. [ read more ]

Fast Company : “I create fake videos. Here’s why people believe even the obvious ones”

In this article by Fast Company, the author discusses the technical side of producing fake videos, why many believe even the most obviously doctored videos, and how becoming media literate consumers can help fight the spread of fake videos. [ read more ]

M-Passioned: Meet Our Members

Beth Thornton

Contributor, "Issues and Ideas"

KCBX Central Coast Public Radio

" I’m excited about the momentum in K-12 education. Many states across the country are adopting legislation to teach media literacy skills in the classroom. Beginning in 2017, I traveled to Sacramento on several occasions to voice CML’s support for media literacy education in California schools. It took two years and many revisions for a bill to pass. The signed legislation requires the California Department of Education to maintain a web site of media literacy resources and professional development materials for educators. It’s a first step and I appreciate that California recognized the need to give teachers some assistance and training for media literacy. " [ read more ]

Calendar

Connected Learning

Summit 2019

University of California

Irvine, CA

Oct. 3-5

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Canadian Media Literacy Week

Various Locations

Oct 7-11

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US Media Literacy Week

Various locations

Oct 21-25

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Global MIL Week

Worldwide

Oct 24-31

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Northeast Regional Media

Literacy Conference

Rhode Island College

Providence, RI

Nov 8-9

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Family Online Safety Institute

2019 Conference

Washington, D.C.

Nov 21

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NCTE Annual Convention

Baltimore, MD

Nov 21-24

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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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Next submission deadline:

October 4, 2019

Events & Opportunities

CFP: Technology, Media, and Information Literacy Conference

The Technology, Media, and Information Literacy Conference is now accepting proposals that engage audience members in active learning of concepts that have immediate application for PreK-Adult schools and classrooms. They are looking for innovative ideas and teaching practices about technology, media, and information literacy that put students at the center of learning. Conference sessions consist of 50-minute, small-group, interactive workshops.

Submission deadline: Oct 4 [ learn more ]

Sound Education: Educational Audio Conference

Sound Education is an educational audio conference which will take place at Boston University, WBUR CitySpace, and Harvard University October 9-12. Designed for both podcast creators and listeners, Sound Education is for educators who want to incorporate podcasting into their curriculum. [ learn more ]

Grades K-12 Educators:

Critical Media Literacy Workshop

The Los Angeles County Office of Education is offering a two-day workshop for K-12 educators. In this interactive workshop, teachers will learn the theory that informs Critical Media Literacy and practice teaching strategies for making their lessons more engaging and critical. This workshop is based on over a decade of research and practice by author and educator, Jeff Share, PhD. from Teacher Education Program at UCLA. The workshop will take place on October 18th and 24th and the cost is $300. [ learn more ]

Global MIL Week 2019

UNESCO and their partners are calling all stakeholders to join the celebration of Media and Information Literacy by organizing events or initiatives in their communities, cities, regions, or online. This call is open worldwide, building up to the Global MIL Week celebrations that will take place from October 24-31. Register your event here .

Disrupt the News Challenge

Presented by Broadcast Education Association (BEA) in partnership with TVNewsCheck, the 2020 Disrupt the News Challenge asks groups of student journalists to reinvent broadcast news by developing unique ways of presenting traditional and non-traditional news formats using new platforms and inventive video techniques.

Submissions accepted: Dec 1-15 [ learn more ]

Resources

UCLA Critical Media Literacy Research Guide

The UCLA library has created an extensive library research guide which supports their Teacher Education Program's Critical Media Literacy course. The resource prepares educators for teaching K-12 students to explore their relationships with media, technology, and popular culture by critically questioning different types of representations and creating their own alternative media messages. [ learn more ]

Grades PK-2: Power of Kindness

Scholastic has created the Power of Kindness SEL lesson for Pre-K through 2nd grade students growing up in the digital world. These free resources, sponsored by Power of Zero, include a variety of classroom lessons and activities that teach important SEL and life skills to help children safely and constructively play online.

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Grades 9-12: Facts First

Scholastic has created a new ELA program for grades 9-12 to help fight disinformation. The program, sponsored by CNN, includes a teaching guide which provides lessons and activities to equip students with strategies to identify the different types of disinformation we encounter daily, understand how they spread, and know how to spot them. The full program also includes a classroom poster and student activities. [ learn more ]

Winners: 2019 CID Video Competition

For the 2019 Center for Intercultural Dialogue Video Competition, students were asked to answer the question “How do social media influence intercultural dialogue?” in a 90-120 second video. A list of the 2019 winners, including a link to the winning videos, has been announced. [ more info ]

Study: Can media literacy education increase digital engagement in politics?

According to a study by Joseph Kahne and Benjamin Bowyer of UC Riverside, youth who were exposed to digital-engagement learning opportunities were far more likely to be politically engaged online. Specifically, youth become much more likely to circulate, create, or comment on political content as well as participate in a political pressure campaign – one in which they contacted a government agency, nonprofit, or business to express their views. [ read more ]