Welcome to a world where seeing, along with hearing and reading, should not immediately lead to believing. Fake news can be practically impossible to spot thanks to advanced technology.
It wasn’t...
Styles and fads come and go, but one thing that NEVER goes out of style is the First Amendment. That is why for the past eight years SchoolJournalism.org invited students to enter the The First Amendment...
Free resources are the name of the game for us at SchoolJournalism. Our panel of volunteers know all-too-well how difficult it can be for schools to find the funding for both Journalism educators and students...
SchoolJournalism.org invites YOU to enter the The First Amendment Matters PSA contest. Over the past seven years of this contest, teachers like Stacy Gerst have used this as an opportunity to create a...
This past fall, SchoolJournalism posed a question for student journalists to seek the answer to: What are schools doing to include Media Literacy in their curriculum?
After reviewing the submissions,...
Netflix. TikTok. PBS. Wall Street Journal. ABC. YouTube. CNN. BuzzFeed. National Geographic. Twitter. Wikipedia. CBS. FOX. SnapChat. New York Times. Facebook. Hulu. Facebook. NPR.
The list could...
Frank Baker, Author and Media Literacy Advocate
• March 2, 2021
The inability of many of today’s students to evaluate information online for truthfulness has become a crisis in American education.
Even though most students now use the Internet as their primary...
Leigh Kellmann Kolb, Assistant Professor of English and Journalism at East Central College
• July 17, 2020
There has been an influx of reading lists for white Americans to more deeply understand the long history and enduring egregious examples of systemic racism in our country in response to the Black Lives...
Jane Bannester, Ritenour High School Broadcast Journalism Teacher
• June 14, 2020
My name is Jane Bannester and I’m a teacher at Ritenour High School in St. Louis, Missouri.
On Aug. 9, 2014, Michael Brown Jr., an 18-year-old black man, was fatally shot by 28-year-old white police...
Leigh Kellmann Kolb, Assistant Professor of English and Journalism at East Central College
• January 13, 2020
Presidential election years present ample opportunities for lessons in media literacy; depending on your outlook and your class dynamics, this is either exhilarating or terrifying. Either way, it’s necessary...
