Media Literacy Week 2020: Act
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What is Action?
As listed on NAMLE's Media Literacy Week 2020 Website:
Act(ion) is the culmination of accessing, analyzing, and evaluating media messages.
- We act by engaging civically as the result of thoughtful access, analysis, and evaluation of media messages we receive.
- We act as a way to do something that challenges the status quo (often in opposition to mainstream media).
- We act in response to breaking down thoughts, feelings, and ideas related to media.
Quoted from:
Media Literacy Week 2020 Access Page. Media Literacy Week, National Association for Media Literacy in Education (NAMLE), medialiteracyweek.us/about/theme/act. Accessed 7 Oct. 2020.
Additional Reading & Resources
- Study Finds Sizable Impact of Civic Media Literacy Education on Democratic EngagementFind the study that the article is based on here: CivicLeads
Developing Digital Citizens Report
This report not only defines the need for Media Literacy Education (MLE), but makes recommendations for how NYS should accomplish the task.
Lesson Plans & Activities
- Social Media for Social ActionFrom Teaching Tolerance, this lesson engages students in the debate about the efficacy of social media as a tool for social change.
- Political Participation: We The VotersThis lesson from PBS Learning Media demonstrates that political change and far reaching legislation often start as grassroots protest movements.
Media Literacy Action and Policy
- Media Literacy Now
Media Literacy Now is the leading national advocacy organization for media literacy education policy.
