News Literacy in K-12 Education
What, why and how?Young people are growing up in the most complex information environment in history. They need the skills, knowledge and dispositions to navigate this environment successfully — to avoid being misled, scammed or manipulated; to make informed decisions; and to take part in civic life in ways that reflect their own values and experiences. In this workshop, we’ll define news…
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What's Happening In Massachusetts?
JOIN US!Meet some of the Massachusetts school leaders, educators, librarians, and tech specialists who are implementing media literacy in schools! DATE: Monday, March 30, 2026TIME: 2 - 3 PM LOCATION: Online. Click here to register What's happening with media literacy in Massachusetts? Confirmed PresentersKyra Brissette…
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Media Literacy for Seniors
Technology companies rarely design with older adults in mind, yet seniors face increasingly high-stakes digital challenges—from navigating confusing interfaces and password resets to identifying AI-generated deepfakes and avoiding sophisticated scams. Join Lucy Gray, an educational technology veteran who now works part-time at a public library…
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Leading the Future at CSLA
Join us at the Hyatt Regency Irvine in Irvine, CA on Thursday, 1/29/26 - Sunday, 2/1/26 for the Annual CSLA Conference! Attend concurrent sessions, workshops, and hear from our keynote speakers.Leading the Future: Empowering Librarians to Advance AI & Media Literacy and Digital WellnessChair: Elise ChoiPanelists: Donnell Probst, Lesley Farmer, Glen Warren and Yonty FriesemFri Jan 30, 20262:00…
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Substack 101
As algorithmic social media feeds become increasingly cluttered with noise and polarization, a growing number of educators and citizens are turning to the "newsletter economy" to reclaim their digital attention. Substack has emerged as a powerful tool in this landscape, offering a space where we can move away from being passive consumers and toward becoming…
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MEL Monthly Meeting
These gatherings are designed exclusively for the 71 people who are currently affiliated with the Lab as core team members, fellows, affiliated faculty, graduate students, or project collaborators.As our work continues to grow in reach, scale, and impact, these monthly meetings give us space to stay connected, share updates, coordinate…
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Together We Rise: December 2025
Dear friends of the Media Education Lab community,Like many of you, we are still processing the school shooting that took place at Brown University last week and the days of fear and anxiety that followed. Many members of the MEL community, including myself, live, work, teach, and study in and around Providence, Rhode Island. Many of you reached out to us in the past days, appreciating the…
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Media & Family Conference
The Catholic University of Croatia (CUC) hosts the "Media and Family in the Age of Artificial Intelligence" conference on December 10, 2025, focusing on media's impact on family life, alongside broader communication conferences addressing disinformation, with participation from international experts, promoting media literacy and digital citizenship, reflecting CUC's engagement in contemporary…
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Media Mindfulness
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…
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New Models for Academic Peer Review: A JMLE Discussion
 What are some alternatives to the double-blind peer review system of academic journals? Not surprisingly, there are quite a few! Each model is trying to fix different weaknesses of traditional double-blind peer review (bias, slowness, opacity, gatekeeping).  Join JMLE Editors for an informal conversation to learn more about the options available as we consider a path forward.  DATE: Thursday,…
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Media Literacy in Massachusetts: A Landscape Scan
The first-ever major statewide initiative to document the scope of media literacy education in American public schoolsClick here to read the report To better understand the status, challenges, and opportunities for advancing media literacy education…
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Media Literacy in Action, 2nd edition 2025
The blurring of entertainment, information, and persuasion is reshaping work, life, and citizenship. As a result, our relationship to media has never been so important nor so complex. By asking critical questions about what they watch, listen to, read, and use, students can be better prepared to be responsible communicators who can use a variety of formats and genres for self-expression and…
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When Teens Create the News
Download the Publication When Teens Create the News:  Examining the Impact of PBS/NewsHour Student Reporting Labs Renee Hobbs, University of Rhode Island Abstract The PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs program (www.studentre-portinglabs.com) connects middle and high school students…
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The Routledge Handbook of Media Education Futures Post-Pandemic.
Our team from the Media Education Lab is proud to announce the publication of The Routledge Handbook of Media Education Futures Post-Pandemic.This handbook showcases how educators and practitioners around the world adapted their routine media…
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Your Turn to Talk
Now you can participate in online dialogue with people from across the country and around the world with "Your Turn to Talk," a digital interactive learning experience made especially for Renee Hobbs' book, Media Literacy in Action, 2nd edtion.  CLICK HERE…
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Teachers Guide, Media Literacy in Action
 This Teacher’s Guide will help you get the most out of the new textbook by Renee Hobbs, as it offers practical guidance on using this textbook in the classroom. Whether you are an experienced teacher or teaching media literacy for the first time, this guide…
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Librarians on YouTube
Librarians are often challenged to connect with their communities (learners, fellow educators, and the public) with limited time, among competing priorities, and especially recently, across distance. Among many creative approaches to engagement, YouTube offers a fresh approach for librarians to build connections beyond the physical spaces of the library and outside of formal learning environments…
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Internet: Indispensable or Evil?
OverviewIn these four lessons, students use the episode Adam Ruins the Internet (Season 2, Episode 12) as a starting point to discuss the role of the Internet in modern culture and learn about media policies that shape people’s online…
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Digital and Media Literacy: A Process of Learning
Digital and Media Literacy: A Learning Process …
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All About Media
It's never too early to be smart about media!Give emerging readers the tools to learn about media, evaluate it, and understand it. Readers will learn essential critical thinking concepts along with important topics such as understanding how to find sources and how to properly source, privacy and Internet safety, evaluating ads and news reports, and determining the differences between facts,…
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