Digital and Media Literacy

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October 12, 2022 2 min read

Guidelines for teachers & educators on tackling disinformation launched by EC

Mariya Gabriel, the European Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth launched a new set of Guidelines for teachers and educators on tackling disinformation and promoting digital literacy on Tuesday 11 October. These guidelines…

October 4, 2022 13 min read

Hopes and hurdles: European teachers’ struggle to tackle digital literacy in the classroom

by Juliane von Reppert-Bismarck & Adeline Brion, Lie Detectors, Belgium ; Data analysis by Adeline Brion, Margit Langenbein & Sinem Sahin. Recently, with the onset of the global Covid pandemic, policy-makers have realised that media…

October 3, 2022 2 min read

Global Media and Information Literacy Week 24-31 October 2022

Global Media and Information Literacy Week, commemorated annually, is a major occasion for stakeholders to review and celebrate the progress achieved towards Media and Information Literacy for All. This year it is hosted by Nigeria and has…

September 30, 2022 11 min read

Unpacking Algorithm Literacy

by Jordan Hill, Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). While conducting research for an OECD Education working paper on children’s media literacy, I increasingly came in to contact with the term “algorithm literacy.” I…

September 28, 2022 2 min read

Register for MLA4MedLit Conference on Teacher Education in Digital Media Literacy – 19 October

The Media & Learning Association is organising a one-day online conference on the topic of Teacher Education in Digital Media Literacy on 19 October 2022 from 09:30 – 17:00 CEST. This event is associated with…

September 27, 2022 14 min read

Baltic states use MIL to fight for their democratic futures

by Auksé Balčytienė, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania. Just a couple of decades ago, researchers from media studies and political science spoke optimistically about the positive effects of the new digital environment on democracy. Among…

September 27, 2022 2 min read

SMILES Workshops for Teachers and Librarians on disinformation prove popular

Media & Learning organised a series of workshops on Disinformation from 7 September to 10 September 2022 aimed at librarians, teachers and youth workers as part of the SMILES Project. The workshops took place in…

September 26, 2022 9 min read

HackShield Future Cyber Heroes: Our Heroes. Our Future.

by Tim Murck, HackShield, the Netherlands. Learning to interact safely on the internet is a challenge. Think of the growing amount of phishing mails, Whatsapp scams and stolen passwords. But when do you actually learn…

September 14, 2022 2 min read

MLA to launch major new project on teacher education in digital and media literacy

The Media & Learning Association (MLA) is delighted to announce that its proposal to the European Media and information Fund (EMIF) called TeaMLit has been successful. As well as MLA, TeaMLit involves the following partners:…

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