Media Education Lab

#NEWSLETTER  In this week’s edition of the Media Education Lab newsletter: Teach About Copyright & Fair Use: The Lab has pulled together free resources for every step, from your first lesson to a school-wide policy, including a new fair use guidance document for student media makers. Plus: a New Yorker short on filmmaker Hugh Clegg’s online quest to find the anonymous TikTok user who turned his stolen video into a viral meme. Also in this issue: 🔹 Reflections on Discourse in the Digital Age: Renee Hobbs on sharing the virtual stage with applied linguists at a recent AAAL webinar, making the case for “messy engagement” over tidy, over-scaffolded classroom projects. 🔹 Practical Strategies for AI Literacy: Lab members Wesley Fryer, Scott Moss, and Catharine Reznicek join Vector Solutions to share practical strategies for building AI literacy on the foundations schools already teach. 🔹 Call for book chapters: Handbook on Truth in a Digital Age (Edward Elgar), edited by Renee Hobbs. Proposals due January 15, 2027. The Handbook shifts the field’s organising question from “How do we stop falsehood?” to “What are the conditions under which truth can be established, certified and reasonably trusted?” 🔹 Oct 26 | Media Literacy Week 2026: NAMLE’s “Walk the Line” session with Catherine Morris on active listening and reflective thinking. 🔹 Nov 4 | Media Literacy in a Time of War: Voices from Palestine: a free six-part webinar series opens with “A Survival Skill,” featuring Renee Hobbs, Bilal Younis, and Yonty Friesem. 🔹 Jobs & opportunities: faculty roles at Rutgers, Texas A&M International, UND and UNH, plus the John S. Knight Journalism Fellowship and MSF Without Borders Media Fellowship. 📌 Read the full edition: https://lnkd.in/dcjnz_Mf #MediaLiteracy #CopyrightAndFairUse #AILiteracy #MediaLiteracyWeek

Reflections on the 2026 Media Literacy Institute at the University of Washington with Michele Johnsen and Catherine Morris! https://lnkd.in/gQsnp5Nn

Wrapping up an enriching online symposium on Media Literacy, hosted by Media Education Lab. Across the six sessions from May to October, I learned so much, and each one has become a strong foundation for my future work on media literacy. The guest speakers were so generous with what they shared, and their work spanned such diverse fields that it broadened how I think about the subject. The Padlet activities were beautifully designed and made every session engaging and interactive. Special thanks to Allie Thrall and Salome Apkhazishvili for the timely and extremely well-managed organisation, which made the whole symposium run smoothly. I am extremely grateful to Yonty Friesem and Renee Hobbs for creating this incredible space for media literacy, and for opening it up to all media literacy enthusiasts so that I could be part of it. I’m also thankful for the people I connected with along the way, and I hope we stay in touch and keep the conversation going. #MediaLiteracy #MediaEdLab #OnlineSymposium #PhDLife #AcademicLife #JournalismResearch

#QOTW I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples. - Mother Teresa

#WEBINAR Gaming and Game-making as Media Literacy Julia Feerrar is hosting another edition of Leading from the Library! Gaming is an increasingly important part of the media landscape, but developing literacy skills through gameplay and game-making can be daunting. In this session, we’ll discuss tangible ‘ways in’ to learning about gaming and game-making as a facet of media literacy. DATE: Wednesday, October 14, 2026 TIME: 12 - 1 PM EST LOCATION: Online. Register - https://lnkd.in/dkwbGkdy 💡 FEATURED PRESENTER: Trevor Finney, the manager of the Virtual Environments and Gaming Studios in the University Libraries at Virginia Tech. ABOUT THE WEBINAR SERIES:  The Leading from the Library Series explores the unique role that librarians and library workers can play in leading digital and media literacy programs. What unique ‘flavors’ do libraries bring to digital and media literacy learning? What creative solutions are librarians exploring to engage learners? And (how) is AI shaping the conversation about literacy in libraries? Across the series, we’ll explore a range of opportunities and challenges for librarians who are leading or hoping to lead digital literacy initiatives, including how to get started, partnering with learner-leaders, identifying partners, and more. Please get in touch with us if you would like to share your work in this series.  Julia Feerrar, Webinar Series Manager | feerrar@vt.edu  #MediaEdLab #Gaming #MediaLiteracy

#NEWSLETTER In this week’s edition of the Media Education Lab newsletter: Pause2MAP is now an award-winning program! Out of 600+ applications, Lab members Lucas Jacob and Michelle Hirschy, co-creators of Pause2MAP alongside Yonty Friesem, were recognised in Toddle - Your Teaching Partner's “100 Independent School Innovators” for Curriculum Innovation. Pause2MAP offers a PK–12 social media literacy education framework, believed to be the first of its kind in the United States. Also in this issue: 🔹 Youth Taking the Lead: the California Media Literacy Coalition and the California Alliance for Media Literacy announced their merger. The Alliance was the advocacy group behind AB 2071, the Digital Wellness Education Act, signed into law on September 10, 2026. Lab member and Alliance founder Elise C. Choi (an Orange County high school senior) will serve as the Coalition’s legislative liaison. 🔹 We Were Late to AI. Quantum Is Our Second Chance.: Aurra Kawanzaruwa makes the case that quantum literacy doesn’t need a new discipline, it needs ours, because quantum is about to reshape the hype, privacy and proof we already teach. 🔹 SJN Youth Mental Health Fellowships: HEAL and YBB fellows receive up to $5,000, coaching, and a tight-knit cohort of peers. 🔹 Free webinar | Oct 14: Trevor Finney (Virginia Tech) on “Gaming and Gamemaking as Media Literacy,” hosted by Julia Feerrar’s Leading from the Library series. 🔹 Media Literacy Week 2026 | Oct 26: Join us for a “Walk the Line” session on active listening and reflective thinking, with Catherine Morris. 🔹 Jobs & opportunities: faculty roles at UT Austin, UC Santa Barbara, Wheaton College and Parkland, plus the Yale World Fellows Program and HP-UCL IOE Fellowship in AI in Education. 📌 Read the full edition: https://lnkd.in/dxdQk29Z #MediaLiteracy #DigitalWellness #QuantumLiteracy #MediaLiteracyWeek #AILiteracy

JMLE has been a shining beacon in the world of media literacy. Now is your time to contribute. Pick up a manuscript and unravel worlds of wisdom. #medialiteracy #scamalert #AIliteracy

Engaging in peer dialogue around academic content is an important way to help strengthen and grow media literacy education scholarship and evidence-informed practice. And it's a way to ensure that your perspective is represented in the discourse! If not this week, then during the upcoming National Media Literacy Week, consider commenting on a JMLE manuscript.

#MEDIAEDBLOG We Were Late to AI. Quantum Is Our Second Chance. Media literacy educators spent years catching up after ChatGPT arrived, and quantum technology is next in line. What if we got a head start this time? Drawing on the Africa Quantum Consortium's Humanising Quantum roundtable, Aurra explores why quantum technology matters for anyone who teaches about hype, privacy and proof, and how Ubuntu can shape the way we bring it into our classrooms. READ: https://lnkd.in/din3dAaZ #MediaEdLab #Blog #FutureLiteracies #QuantumLiteracy

#JMLE Check out the latest research in the media literacy field! Twelve manuscripts are now open for public peer review at the open-access, peer reviewed Journal of Media Literacy Education, the official publication of the National Association for Media Literacy Education. The review process is now public and everyone is invited to read, review and comment on these manuscripts before the deadline of October 15th! Manuscripts that pass a Desk Review are blinded — name and identifying details removed — and posted on JMLE Submissions Open for Review, where members of the community can read them and offer comments. Visit: https://lnkd.in/dUJmRE7c #MediaLiteracy #PeerReview #OpenForReview