Announcements

Media LIteracy Week 2023!

The Center for Media Literacy (CML) celebrates Global Media and Information (MIL) Week (Oct. 24-31), now a formal event adopted by a UN Resolution in 20210-2021, and annually noted on the United Nations calendar, as well as National Media Literacy Week (Oct. 23-27), in concert with its CML Affiliates and Associates throughout the world. During this week, CML’s Tessa Jolls, President, and Michele Johnsen, Affiliate/Associate will present on Thursday, Oct. 26 at two media literacy events: Tessa Jolls will address “Media Literacy: A Strategy for Risk Management in an Uncertain World, online at Bournemouth University’s Autumn Speaker Series, open to the public on Thursday (16:00-17:00 GMT, free registration), followed by a Q&A session.

Michele Johnsen will address “The State of Media Literacy Across Boundaries” in a panel discussion online sponsored by the Radio and Television Advisory Council-CONCORTV, an autonomous body attached to the Ministry of Transport and Communications of Peru.

CML’s Global OnRamp to Media Literacy, a free online introductory course, is now available in English, Spanish, Malay, Lithuanian and Portuguese, with more languages to come!

Baker University and CML: Service Learning in Action

Exciting news! A new book chapter titled "Directed Field Experiences: A Doctoral Program's Approach to DevelopingScholarship through Service" was just published. The chapter delves into the significance of Directed Field Experiences, supported through the Center for Media Literacy, in fostering service learning opportunities and shaping students' scholarly identities in Baker University's Instructional Design and Performance Technology doctoral program. Through real experiences and reflections, authors explore the enduring impact of service learning on organizations, communities, and students' lives. Chapter authors include: Linda Wiley, Matthew Connell, Regena Aye, Wendy Gentry, Anna Catterson, Tessa Jolls, and Marcus Childress.

Beyond Fact Checking: How to Read the News Using CML's 5 Core Concepts and Key Questions to the News

No information is perfect. News never has been -- and never will be -- totally reliable. That's why learning to read the news through a media literacy lens, using evidence-based media literacy frameworks, provides for the risk management skills that every citizen should bring to news content. Taking CML's 5 Core Concepts and Key Questions for media literacy, Dr. Bobbie Eisenstock, professor of journalism and a media literacy researcher/practitioner, has given a practical guide to understanding and critically analyzing the news by using a process of inquiry that address the bigger media literacy questions while also digging into questions that illuminate specific aspects of news content that are essential to understanding the news media.

This process encourages habits of mind pertinent to and informed digesting of the news, pertinent regardless of location, language or culture. Check it out!

New Translations for CML's Free Online Course - Cover the Basics!

CML is pleased to announce the addition of two new languages -- Portuguese and Malay -- to its Global Onramp to Media Literacy collection of resources. Based on its foundational book, Literacy for the 21st Century, the Global Onramp course provides a solid base for exploring media literacy theory and practice. The course features CML's evidence-based frameworks -- the Empowerment Spiral of Awareness, Analysis, Reflection and Action and the Questions/TIPS framework with the 5 Core Concepts and Key Questions of Media Literacy -- as well as a guide to understanding how these frameworks inform media literacy processes and methodologies. The course is also available currently in English, Spanish and Lithuanian. Check it out! More languages coming soon: www.medialit.org/courses

Second Annual Media Literacy Institute: Online with CML and UW

If you have trouble with Registering, please use this link:

https://education.uw.edu/programs/courses/media-literacy-institute-2023

NATO-CML Webinar Series Now Available on YouTube

NATO and CML provided a high-level, six-part webinar series -- Media Literacy as Strategic Defense -- to encourage dialogue between NATO policy makers and the media literacy community in November-December 2022.

The series panel discussions are now contained on CML's YouTube Channel, covering the following topics: -- go to:

https://www.youtube.com/medialitkit

Propaganda: Media literacy’s role in resilience

News Literacy: Empowering global citizens in a new information era

Mental Health and Social Media: Wellness strategies from the schoolroom to the armed forces

Pandemics: Health, hope and hoaxes

Education Systems and Media Literacy: Building foundational skills for democracies today and in the future

NATO Delegations and Media Literacy in Governments: Leading the way for more resilient global citizens

NATO-CML Webinar Series: Media Literacy as Strategic Defense

Join us!

NATO and CML are providing a high-level, six-partwebinar series -- Media Literacy as Strategic Defense -- to encourage dialogue between NATO policy makers and the media literacy community. The series will be held at 10 AM EST/4 PM Brussels each Monday, Wednesday and Friday for two weeks as follows:

28 Nov Propaganda: Media literacy’s role in resilience (See Flyer description with outstanding speakers below)

30 Nov News Literacy: Empowering global citizens in a new information era

2 Dec Mental Health and Social Media: Wellness strategies from the schoolroom to the armed forces

05 Dec Pandemics: Health, hope and hoaxes

07 Dec Education Systems and Media Literacy: Building foundational skills for democracies today and in the future

09 Dec NATO Delegations and Media Literacy in Governments: Leading the way for more resilient global citizens

Please contribute, and register NOW!

Registration: https://bit.ly/3V40c1y

File attachments:

CMLNATO General Series.pdf

CML NATO Webinar Series 28NOV.pdf

Launched for Global MIL/National Media Literacy Week... Video Highlights of Fulbright-NATO Report: Building Resiliency

A short video, highlighting important take-aways from Tessa Jolls' Fulbright-NATO Report called "Building Resiliency: Media Literacy as a Strategic Defense Strategy for the Transatlantic," is now available on CML's YouTube Channel, MediaLit Kit. The video features a conversation between Michael Danielson, chair of the State of Washington's Action for Media Education (AME) advocacy group and a high school teacher at Seattle Preparatory School, and Tessa Jolls, CML's President and report author.

The video addresses Jolls findings on the state of the field, and the current need for scaling and institutionalizing media literacy, so that it becomes part of the cultural fabric of democratic societies.

Link to video: https://youtu.be/VYPjDfHWzX4

File attachments:

JollsBuilding Resiliency-Media Literacy as a Strategic Defense Strategy for the Transatlantic (10-10-2022) copy.pdf

Fulbright-NATO Report News Release.pdf

Building Resiliency: Media Literacy as a Strategic Defense Strategy for the Transatlantic

Sept. 2022: The results of a new Fulbright-NATO Security Studies Award are now available through a just-released report, “Building Resiliency: Media Literacy as a Strategic Defense Strategy for the Transatlantic,” by the Center for Media Literacy’s President, Tessa Jolls. This ground-breaking report highlights aspects of the current information ecosystem and the state of media literacy in NATO countries.

A news release and a copy of the report are available now -- see attachments

File attachments:

Fulbright-NATO Report News Release.pdf

FinBuilding Resiliency-Media Literacy as a Strategic Defense Strategy for the Transatlantic (Final-10-5-2022) copy.pdf