Partners and supporters shared their thoughts on the launch of the first National Media Literacy Week. Press outlets also reported on MLW’s success. Read all about 2015 Media Literacy Week here.
The wonderful students at Cedar Crest College sent their thanks to NAMLE. medialiteracyweekthankyou
University California, Northridge students created an infographic to archive their MLW activities/events.
David Ryan Polgar, founder of Digital Citizenship Summit, talks Media Literacy Week on Mass Appeal.
Check out these links to the Proud2Bme Facebook Challenge.
Media Literacy Week Partner, NCTV media literacy week efforts covered by local press. NCTV MLW Article.
ACASOLA perfomance honors National Media Literacy Week
Video footage of the panel discussion for Media Literacy Week coordinated by the Graduate Program in Developmental Education at Texas State and hosted by the San Marcos Public Library a can be found here and here. Panelists included Chris Gonzalez (a social media marketer), Eliot Stone (a social anthropologist and documentarian), Heath Allyn (a commercial actor), and Caitlin McFarland and Emily Gipson (the co-founders of the ATX Television Festival). Moderated by Elizabeth Threadgill. Photos can be found here.
The News Literacy Project talks with The Washington Post’s Matea Gold about political fact-checking.
Let these kids tell you what media is all about.
FHI360 Launches National Initiative during Media Literacy Week.
Check out the calendar of events from Sejal Patel, Photography Teacher at Beaver Country Day School in Massachusetts. Beaver Country Day School MLWEEK
Do you wonder why Media Literacy Week matters? Read this article by Frank W. Baker to find out.
SchoolJournalism.org highlights the launch of Media Literacy Week
Jacob Burns Film Center shares thoughts on the launch of Media Literacy Week.
The Media Education Labsters are celebrating Media Literacy Week. See what they’re up to!
From News-o-matic Reader Lucy, Age 9 “The Media Literacy Week is really good. You can’t always trust the media. They can say this and that but it might not be true. ” These pictures were drawn by kids 7-11 in response to News-o-matic story about MLW.
Check out these awesome pictures of Frank Baker speaking with students at the Academy of Motion Pictures in L.A.
At Journey School, a public charter school in Orange County, where Diana Graber teachers Cyber Civics, students in three grades celebrated the week by engaging in the following activities: 8th graders continued their exploration of gender stereotypes in media by conducting a review of both print and video media sources and blogging about their findings (see images); 7th graders read and assessed the privacy policies of popular social media sites; and 6th graders explored the “five themes of citizenship” as they considered what it means to be a citizen of the digital world. See these pictures taken by Nirzhar Pradhan.
