Analyzing media and creating media products.
Public television station KQED built KQED Teach, a free professional development media literacy platform to train teachers—through hands-on media creation—to navigate media overload, misinformation, persuasive techniques, and bias so they’re more comfortable passing the information along to students.
As algorithms become more prevalent in everyday life, these key decision-making automations become ever more important for young people to understand.
Budding journalists are encouraged to think beyond the classroom and follow their curiosity in a city brimming with stories. The New York Times Summer Academy offers two-week courses where students learn core journalism skills. Whether they’re drawn to media, culture, sports, fashion, business, or law, they’ll investigate the forces shaping these fields with the guidance of seasoned journalists, editors, and media professionals.
The Civic Imagination Project at University of Southern California taps our civic imagination (collective vision for what a better tomorrow might look like) to bridge perceived cultural gaps between diverse communities.
“In winter things are down to their essence and bare bones,” says David Lamon, manager of the Field Pond Audubon Center in Holden, Maine. Have you ever stopped to look closely at nature during wintertime? What did you notice?
In the present day, students have constant access to information; they can access it on phones, TVs, radios, and computers, as well as in printed content and, in the case of advertising, in the street. The evolution of technology has democratized expression, making it much easier for different people (including young people) and viewpoints to get a platform.
Now in its fifteenth year, the 90-Second Newbery Film Festival is an annual worldwide video contest in which young filmmakers create short movies that tell the entire stories of Newbery-winning books in just a few minutes.
The power of images to shape cultural narratives is revealed in Norman Rockwell: Imagining Freedom, an exhibition in the Norman Rockwell Museum that explores the legacy of the Four Freedoms as inspired by Franklin D. Roosevelt and portrayed by artist Norman Rockwell.
The American Revolution wasn’t just fought with muskets and cannons; it was fought with media messages as well. In the 1700s, Thomas Paine was “trending.”
October isn’t just about pumpkins, costumes, and apple cider donuts. It’s also Cybersecurity Awareness Month. This year’s theme, Stay Safe Online, is about the simple ways students can protect themselves, their classmates, and their school from online threats.