Media Mindfulness: Building Media Literacy Through Meaningful Discussion
Discover how media mindfulness can be a powerful tool to help people become savvy news consumers by engaging in thoughtful discussions about local and current issues. Through guided reflection, students consider which news stories are meaningful to them and how they make them feel. This approach promotes respectful dialogue and strengthens media literacy skills. You’ll leave with practical strategies for weaving media mindfulness into classroom practice and everyday conversations.
Date: Friday, December 12, 2025
Time: 12 pm EST | 6 pm CET | 10:30 pm IST
Location: Register here for the webinar series.
Presentors
Florian Feucht, Ph.D., is an educational psychologist and founder of Thinking Habitats. He leads the development of THINKING PRO, a research-based curriculum unit that builds students’ critical thinking and reading comprehension through authentic news media. A former special-education teacher and tenured professor, he now supports teachers in bringing THINKING PRO into social studies, ELA, and multilingual-learner classrooms.
Shelley Garland
Regina Rotshtein