In the spring of 2024, we set out to improve student engagement in my digital media literacy course by listening to students and parents regarding their concerns. What emerged was a shared sense of ...

The battle against fake news in Finland starts in pre-school classrooms. For decades, the Nordic nation has woven media literacy, including the ability to analyse different kinds of media and ...

Last month, Meta, which owns Instagram and Facebook, announced that it would end its fact-checking program in the U.S., leaving billions of users — many of whom are adolescents — to figure out for ...

As artificial intelligence tools become more popular in education, teachers face the challenge of deciding which ones to use and how best to incorporate them into pedagogy. According to Dana Thompson, ...

Are you media literate? The 10th annual U.S. Media Literacy Week Oct. 21-25 is your chance to answer that question, and to celebrate the importance of critical thinking about media as a fundamental ...

High school student Mia Rivera demonstrates puts her phone away before the start of school in this August 2025 photo taken in Louisville, Ky. It’s harder than ever to tell what’s real from what’s not ...

This series has been highlighting how content teachers and others in the world of education have been approaching the world of 2025. Today’s post is about a topic relevant to all content areas: media ...

The International Center for Journalists’ (ICFJ) Disarming Disinformation initiative is a three-year program, supported by the Scripps Howard Foundation, that aims to slow the spread of disinformation ...