New Jersey is poised to become the first state to mandate media literacy instruction for all students, beginning in kindergarten. Credit: Jayk7/Getty Images The Hechinger Report covers one topic: ...

Understanding how technologies work and affect people (digital literacy) is becoming increasingly important as the use of artificial intelligence expands across all sectors of society, including K-12 ...

Kids are spending more time online than ever before, and screen time and internet usage are only going to increase. It's easy to get so focused on how much time kids are spending on their devices that ...

EdSource · School screen time is rising. California parents are asking where to draw the line Since I arrived in Albania in mid-February, I’ve been thinking, discussing, contemplating and even ...

New Jersey schools would have to teach media literacy to students at all grade levels — how to decipher fact from disinformation as they absorb content on social media — under a bipartisan bill that ...

The Instagram headline was pithy and alarming: “Head of Pfizer Research: Covid Vaccine is Female Sterilization.” And the report, from a murky source, could have had real-world consequences, coming in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The internet makes it hard to separate fact from fiction, especially for young people. Here's why it's important for kids to learn ...

“How could this happen?!” “Who do you think Q is?” Those were two of the first questions students asked when a new class that I was teaching, CYB100 Infowars, began on Jan. 25, 2021. Perhaps you are ...

Perhaps without even realizing it, we are inundated with information nearly everywhere in our lives. TV, radio, Spotify, SoundCloud, text messages, Instagram/TikTok/Snapchat notifications, news alerts ...

I share one academic’s experience of teaching media literacy. I describe what two librarians are doing to promote information literacy. I point you to other resources on countering disinformation.

In our current information environment, artificially intelligent, algorithm-driven technologies mediate essentially all information and communication, and they demonstrably influence our ...