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Meet the Team
Monthly Update
Donnell Probst
Editor
Executive Director
Michelle Ciulla Lipkin
Board of Directors
Erin Reilly
President
Sherri Hope Culver
Past President
Kelly Whitney
Vice President
Joanne Parsont
Secretary
Tony Streit
Treasurer
Kristi Avram
David Kleeman
Cynthia Lieberman
Lynette Owens
Nicole Starr
Federico Subervi
DC Vito
Leadership Council
Rachel Arteaga
Caitlin Barry
Natasha Casey
Belinha S. De Abreu
David Cooper Moore
Elizaveta Friesem
Yonty Friesem
Kelsey Greene
Jaclyn Kahn Siegel
Emily Keating
David Magolis
Dee Morgenthaler
Tina Peterson
Theresa Redmond
Rebecca Reynolds
Laurie Chin Sayres
Evelien
Schilder
Julie Smith
Benjamin Thevenin
Jiwon Yoon
Student Leadership Council
Emily Bailin
Catherine Burgess
Roma Dash
Nneka Gigi
Jasmin Goodman
Donnell Probst
Alexis Romero
Zoey Wang
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The purpose of
media literacy education is to develop the habits of inquiry and skills of expression needed by critical thinkers, effective communicators, and active citizens in today's world.
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What's new with you?
Tell us and we'll include it in a future issue of Update. We are especially interested in updates from our student, individual and organizational members.
Next submission deadline:
Friday, February 2
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 In this issue...
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Headlines
AP News: The State of
Media Literacy Legislation
Huff Post: Good Things are
Happening Online 
Diana Graber, founder of CyberWise and CyberCivics, penned an article for the Huffington Post which takes a more positive view of online activity and provides an extensive list of positive habits, outcomes, and activities that come from the use of online resources.
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ALA: Media Literacy a Top Story of 2017
Media Literacy made the list of the top stories affecting libraries in 2017 with the creation of the Media Literacy @ Your Library program, created in partnership with the Center for News Literacy. The article also notes an online media literacy learning program is slated for 2018.
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Mark Your Calendar
Developing Digital Literacies
Drew University
Madison, NJ
Media Literacy 101: It's More than Fake News
2018 METC Conference
St. Charles, MO
International Critical Media Literacy Conference
Georgia Southern University
Savannah, GA
Transmedia Literacy International Conference
Barcelona, Spain
International Media Literacy Research Symposium
Lisbon, Portugal
U.S. Media Literacy Week 2018
Nationwide
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M-Passion
ed: Meet our Members
Media Literacy Educator
Researcher
Author
"Media literacy education is the best way to understand our mediated worlds. Whether this conversation was happening 30 years ago or today, we have always been faced with issues of truth, bias, fact, or fiction. Having a critical lens on the world that is made up of different voices is how we can better serve our communities, educational counterparts, and family. In order to engage, especially in today's society with all the external influences, we need to be media literate. This idea has been most prevalent in the past two years as the level of awareness was raised at how uncritical and uninformed people can be in any situation."
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Want to recommend an M-Passioned NAMLE member who should be in our next feature? Contact Evelien Schilder at
[email protected].
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Opportunities
CFP: Media & Learning 2018:
Video in Higher Education
The 2018 Media & Learning Conference will take place June 14-15 in Leuven, Belgium. 
The Media & Learning Conference will combine formal and informal discussion opportunities along with inspiring presentations, practical demonstrations, and hands-on workshop opportunities. View the different session types on the website.
CFS: 2018 SNCR Excellence in New Communication Awards
The
Society for New Communications Research of The Conference Board (SNCR) is now accepting entries for the 2018 Excellence in New Communications Awards. The program honors the work of corporations, nonprofits, governmental organizations, educational institutions, media organizations and individuals who are innovating the use of digital and social media, mobile media, collaborative technologies, virtual reality, and other emerging digital communications technologies to improve business, culture, media and society. Entrants are invited to submit their case study and detail their initiatives, technologies used, and success metrics.
Cinema/Chicago's CineYouth Film Festival is designed to encourage youth filmmakers in their creative endeavors. CineYouth provides opportunities for young filmmakers to articulate themselves artistically, and have their voice heard. Submissions must be 15 minutes or less in length, and filmmakers must be 22 years old or younger at time of filming.
Submission deadline: Feb 26
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Educator Resources
Lesson Plan: Ethical Photo Editing
KQED Teach
has developed a lesson plan for 9-12 grade students which teaches the ways photos are edited to manipulate the message and how students can edit their personal photos ethically. The lesson plan includes materials, openers, direct instruction, guided and independent practice, and assignment/reflection. [
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Teacher Guide: Digital Competence
EU Science Hub, the European Commission's science and knowledge service, has published the European Framework for the Digital Competence of Educators: DigCompEdu. The framework will help guide policy and can be adapted to implement regional and national tools and training programs. It will also provide a common language and approach that will help the exchange of best practices across borders. The framework is appropriate for educators working in all levels of education
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A Field Guide to "Fake News"
The
Public Data Lab
and First Draft collaborated to develop a free, open-access guide to help students, journalists, and researchers investigate misleading and viral content, memes and trolling practices online. The five chapters of the guide describe a series of research protocols or "recipes" that can be used to trace trolling practices, the ways false, viral news and memes circulate online, and the commercial underpinnings of problematic content. Each recipe provides an accessible overview of the key steps, methods, techniques and datasets used.
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Research
Report: Young Children
Unprepared for Social Media
"Life in Likes," a
Children's Commissioner
report on the effects of social media on 8-to-12-year-olds, examines the way children use social media and its effects on their wellbeing. This report fills a gap in research showing how younger children use platforms which social media companies say are not designed for them.
Study: Developing Media and Gender Literacy in the High School Classroom
A new study published in the Journal of Literacy and Technology by NAMLE Leadership Council member Elizaveta Friesem explores how students learn about issues of gender through critical engagement with media texts, including the impact and use of gender and media classes.
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Employment Opportunities
Assistant Professor of Communication
Rochester Institute of Technology
Assistant Professor
Sports Communication and Media
University of Rhode Island
Assistant Professor of Media Studies
Global Media, Technology, Social Justice
University of Oregon
For more listings, visit our organizational
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