When Illinois high schoolers go back to school this month, they'll have new coursework that lawmakers and Stanford researchers hope will prepare students to better detect misinformation and search for ...
Understanding media is one of the most valuable and practical abilities students today need to learn. Critical-thinking skills have always been important for evaluating the accuracy and the import of ...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — A survey of Illinois educators reveals a significant disparity in how they interpret a three-year-old state law’s requirement to teach high school students a “unit of instruction” ...
Buffeted by disinformation and cynical about the media, most teens (94%) wish their schools taught media literacy, but only 39% got such instruction during the 2023-24 school year, according to a ...
Update RequiredTo play audio, update browser or Flash plugin. Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Yonty Friesem ...
In the age of TikTok, teen depression, and information overload, parents and lawmakers have increasingly turned to K-12 schools to teach students how to navigate our media environment. Eighteen states ...
Purdue doctoral student Benjamin Lathrop is helping frame the conversation surrounding disinformation and misinformation while publishing about teacher-focused research and tools on critical media ...
Survey of Massachusetts educators highlights media literacy as essential to student success and outlines opportunities to ...
Mary McVee is an expert on literacy, culture and narrative, which involves the use of storytelling as a tool for conducting research in the field of education. She can speak to the media about issues ...