Tomorrow, Wednesday September 2, I’m excited to lead an online info session for teachers on the PBS Media Literacy Educator Certification by KQED. I’ll be talking about why media literacy is so important for all teachers to be including in their lessons and how the PBS Certification can help them best integrate this subject into …
I wrote this piece for the KQED Education blog, focused on key learnings from seven of our newest PBS certified media literacy educators. I’m so proud of what these master teachers are doing around the US to support quality media education for young people. There’s no magic wand that we can wave to make remote …
Happy Teacher Appreciation Week! Here’s a video I made, 35 years later, where I finally got around to thanking some teachers who made a difference in my life in middle school. Don’t be like me. Thank your favorite teachers today!
[Cross-posted from the KQED Education Blog] The outbreak of COVID-19 (also called the “novel coronavirus”) is likely to be front-of-mind for you and your students right now. In this rapidly evolving situation, lots of information, misinformation, and rumor have been circulating on social media and the news, which your students may be struggling to sort …
As we close out 2019, I am thinking of all the cool stuff the KQED Education team accomplished over the year. There’s a lot I could mention from across our department, but here I will just focus on projects that I was personally involved in. So here are some of my personal highlights from 2019 …
I am delighted to share the new set of curricula from the Stanford History Education Group (SHEG), “Civic Online Reasoning.” This set of teaching resources adds to SHEG’s already impressive contributions to the field of media literacy. A key proponent of the “lateral reading” method of online fact checking, SHEG’s “Civic Online Reasoning” curricula takes …
I’m excited to share this article I prepared for the KQED Education blog on seven of the educators who have earned the PBS Media Literacy Educator Certification. So many great insights and recommendations from these skilled and dedicated teachers. Check out the blog post here.
This week, I had the honor of participating in a couple of media literacy events in Moreno Valley, in Southern California. This was my first trip to this part of the state, which was super interesting to visit. I was there to support a group of educators working on developing their media literacy skills, as …
I’m excited to announce that I’m facilitating a free online course on Finding & Evaluating Information from October 21-27. Learn how to spot misinformation with strategies used by professional fact-checkers. Review the concepts of reliability and bias, and practice evaluating online information and images so you can bring these skills to your students. This is …
I appreciated this recent EdSurge podcast interview with Peter Adams, VP of the News Literacy Project on the challenges of teaching news literacy. Lots of great quotes that I’m going to want to come back to later. Peter talks about what he has observed in how young people are consuming media: The other thing I …