All these events offered students and educators a chance to discuss unfolding news from deeply informed—but potentially, starkly opposing—perspectives, and to practice the sort of respectful, evidence ...

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 ...

The International Center for Journalists’ (ICFJ) Disarming Disinformation initiative is a three-year program, supported by the Scripps Howard Foundation, that aims to slow the spread of disinformation ...

Media literacy has become crucial as we surf the world full of saturated information. People are constantly bombarding us with new information in many different ways, including news, ads and 24/7 ...

Artificial intelligence companies are urging teachers to prepare students for an “A.I.-driven future.” What that means varies ...

Tech experts, lawmakers and other public officials have long been warning about the dangers of artificial intelligence — especially when it comes to doctored or fake news sources. As such, schools ...

From AI to new social media platforms, technological developments are happening so rapidly that it’s hard for most of us to even catch up, let alone predict and respond to the unintended consequences ...

Nine school districts, including five in California, are the latest to receive a News Literacy District Fellowship to design news and media literacy programs at their school. The two-year fellowship ...

The Show Me State is poised to let a handful of public schools figure out the dos and don’ts of teaching digital media literacy. Missouri state Legislature House and Senate bills calling for a “media ...

In our modern era, human attention is nearly constantly occupied with media, such as news articles, social media, television, podcasts and other forms of content. This media consumption plays a major ...

As artificial intelligence tools become more popular in education, teachers face the challenge of deciding which ones to use and how best to incorporate them into pedagogy. According to Dana Thompson, ...

Because of developments in artificial intelligence and the rapidly changing media landscape, BYU communications professor Pamela Brubaker says media literacy skills are becoming increasingly crucial ...