Digital and Media Literacy

By Jeff Share, School of Education and Information Studies, UCLA Democracy in the digital networked age of “fake news” and “alternative facts” requires new literacy skills and critical awareness to read, write, and use media…

The Facts4All Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) empowers primary and secondary teachers to develop and implement effective whole-school approaches to foster critical thinking and tackle online disinformation through intergenerational collaboration and community engagement. The course…

The European Media & Information Fund (EMIF) has announced three new calls on Media & Information Literacy; Research into Media, Disinformation and Information Literacy and Multidisciplinary Investigations on Disinformation. The key aim of the Media…

On 13 January, the European Commission adopted the 2022 Annual Work Programme for the Creative Europe programme. With an annual budget of €385.6 million, nearly €100 million more than in 2021, Creative Europe will offer…

As part of the Digital Education Action Plan (2021-2027), the EU policy strategy of effective digital transformation in education and training, the European Commission is developing guidelines that will help teachers around Europe to promote digital literacy…

The first round of activities being organised by the new Media & Learning Association SIG on Teacher Education in Digital & Media Literacy is a dedicated Wednesday Webinar series on the topic. The first webinar…

by Alexandre Le Voci Sayad, ZeitGeist, Brazil. The curricula for initial teacher education in Brazil, and in a significant part of Latin America, lag behind reality. It is common to see educators who have just…

by Amy Johnson & Michael Cowling, CQU, Australia. It’s been a tough few years at Meta (Facebook), as they’ve come under increasing pressure to put better protections on their social media protections to support younger…

The Media & Learning Association (MLA) is in the process of developing an active learning game aimed at 14-16 year old students to help them acquire the skills to spot fake news. A first international…