How Do Our Own Biases Affect our Media Literacy?
When I give talks about media literacy, nearly everyone agrees that this is an important, 21st century survival skill. We…
We Need to Talk About Leslie Jones
Why we Need to Talk About Leslie Jones in Class By now you’ve probably heard about SNL’s Leslie Jones, who’s…
Can Our Students get Hooked by Pfishing?
Do our students know these pfishing tricks? There is so much more to digital citizenship than just how we treat…
What My College Freshmen Do Badly
College papers are not Facebook rants. Students need our help distinguishing the two. It’s time for final papers in my online…
Ways to Make Your Classrooms Introvert-Friendly
How to Engage the Student Voice of your Introvert Students Full disclosure: I am not an introvert. In fact, I’d…
Media Literacy in an Age of Immediate and Horrible News
“Technology always has unforeseen consequences, and it is not always clear, at the beginning, who or what will win, and…
Bogus or Bonafide? How to Make Lies Look Legit:
We’ve all seen these. The viral Facebook posts about privacy. And (hopefully) we all know that they are hoaxes. (Well,…
Feel the Ground Shifting: C-SPAN and Social Media are Changing Everything
There’s a big fight on Capitol Hill about gun legislation. This is not news, nor is…
11 Tools to Verify that Online Info
This afternoon I had the pleasure of presenting at the Catholic Press Association National Conference here in St. Louis. Great…
Four Ways Video Editing Can Affect Us (“The Shining” as a romantic comedy?)
When we analyze production values in class, we talk about the obvious ones: music, lighting, use of color, etc. But…