Media Literacy Education since 1997

TweetIt’s nearly 2020 and some schools are still focusing their #digcit energies toward “online safety” and “cyber-bullying”. Granted, these are…

TweetI was fortunate enough to be interviewed today by Gia Valenti as a part of her “Moxie Minutes with Gia”…

TweetI just returned from NAMLE19 in Washington DC, where I was surrounded by media literacy people for three straight days….

TweetEver get a DM message request from someone on Instagram you don’t know? Happens to me all the time. They…

TweetTHE URGE TO GAMIFY I’ve been teaching the big, survey course called “Intro to Mass Media” for about fifteen years….

TweetEver notice that media messages typically follow patterns? We have the standard political commercial: We have the standard corporate “feel…

TweetI have been teased in the past since I consider media literacy a solution to many of the world’s problems….

TweetWhat the difference? Media Literacy Week is November 6-10, 2017. Screen-Free Week is April 30-May 6, 2018. Both ambitious concepts….

TweetI’m pretty lucky: in my career I seem to have one foot in the K12 world and one foot in…