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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Are you media literate? The 10th annual U.S. Media Literacy Week Oct. 21-25 is your chance to answer that question, and to celebrate the importance of critical thinking about media as a fundamental ...

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 ...

Access -- Why digital and media literacy -- Research as authentic inquiry -- Analyze -- Critical questions, close reading -- The power of representation -- Create -- composing with media across the ...

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 ...

The intervention helped students better identify false health headlines, reliability of information sources, and reduced ...