This past fall, SchoolJournalism posed a question for student journalists to seek the answer to: What are schools doing to include Media Literacy in their curriculum?
After reviewing the submissions,...
Netflix. TikTok. PBS. Wall Street Journal. ABC. YouTube. CNN. BuzzFeed. National Geographic. Twitter. Wikipedia. CBS. FOX. SnapChat. New York Times. Facebook. Hulu. Facebook. NPR.
The list could...
Frank Baker, Author and Media Literacy Advocate
• March 2, 2021
The inability of many of today’s students to evaluate information online for truthfulness has become a crisis in American education.
Even though most students now use the Internet as their primary...
Leigh Kellmann Kolb, Assistant Professor of English and Journalism at East Central College
• July 17, 2020
There has been an influx of reading lists for white Americans to more deeply understand the long history and enduring egregious examples of systemic racism in our country in response to the Black Lives...
Jane Bannester, Ritenour High School Broadcast Journalism Teacher
• June 14, 2020
My name is Jane Bannester and I’m a teacher at Ritenour High School in St. Louis, Missouri.
On Aug. 9, 2014, Michael Brown Jr., an 18-year-old black man, was fatally shot by 28-year-old white police...
Leigh Kellmann Kolb, Assistant Professor of English and Journalism at East Central College
• January 13, 2020
Presidential election years present ample opportunities for lessons in media literacy; depending on your outlook and your class dynamics, this is either exhilarating or terrifying. Either way, it’s necessary...
To thrive and not just simply survive in a digital society, media literacy is a must. People of all ages need to be able to digest and analyze vast amounts of information from various sources. It is critical...
Malorie Paine, Kingsbury High School, Memphis, TN
• February 8, 2019
At an almost alarming rate, students these days are unable to determine news writing from opinion writing.
In my two Journalism I classes, I conducted a pre-assessment experiment where students evaluated...
Leigh Kolb, Assistant Professor of English and Journalism at East Central College
• January 1, 2019
One of the most exciting aspects of weaving media literacy instruction into the classroom is the rich source material that we are able to glean from news and entertainment media, pop culture and social...
Leigh Kolb, English and Journalism Instructor at East Central College
• January 1, 2018
Fake news. Bias. Alternative facts. Journalism is under attack, and our students certainly feel the apathy that results in this constant cycle of distrust. For students who might be interested in journalism,...
