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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Survey of Massachusetts educators highlights media literacy as essential to student success and outlines opportunities to ...

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” ...

The Stanford Graduate School of Education recently released a research report that presents worrisome findings about students’ abilities to discern fact from fiction and opinion. This report is ...

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 ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Design by Evelyn Mousigian. It has never been easier to spread misinformation, either deliberately ...

An Illinois law went into effect with the start of the school year requiring lessons in media literacy for all high school students. The law is written to allow media literacy to be taught in any ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This article suggests that bibliographic instruction (BI) librarians consider integrating a mass media news literacy and awareness component ...