By Carol McCarthy, Director of Communications, The News Literacy Project. The News Literacy Project (NLP) is a nonpartisan national education nonprofit that provides programs and resources for educators and the public to teach, learn and share the skills needed to be smart, active consumers of news and information and equal and engaged participants in a democracy.
By Mark Carpenter, Head of Strategy & Corporate Affairs, Sky Ireland. The Edit will provide primary and secondary schools across UK & Ireland with a platform and the training to produce broadcast news reports from script to screen. With the use of Adobe’s creative tools and Sky’s content, young people can enter their climate change
With an over-arching theme exploring the power of collaboration, this series of webinars explored a range of topics with contributions from extremely well-placed experts in their field. MIL without Borders was the title of the first webinar which took place on the 2nd November 2020. With contributors from across Europe, this webinar explored what kind of collaboration
What do you think are the challenges and opportunities for Ireland in relation to adult literacy, numeracy and digital literacy? How do you think we can create an environment where all adults in Ireland have the necessary literacy, numeracy and digital literacy to fully participate in society? These are the questions that SOLAS, the Further
EPRA, the European platform of regulatory authorities, the oldest and largest network of broadcasting regulators, launched a series of online meetings in September entitled ‘MIL Networks: Learning from each other”. Aimed at exchanging ideas and best practices regarding media literacy networks, from their creation to their evaluation, these three meetings held in the course of
Social media influencing is an integral part of many peoples lives now. This webinar provided some insight into the world of social media influencing in Ireland and explored what the media literacy implications are and what role MLI might have in promoting media literacy in the context of social media influencing. On Monday 9 November
As a global community, UNESCO is trying to ensure that media and information literacy (MIL) is addressed in a sustained manner. The world’s attention is now turned to media and information literacy as a needed way to build people’s resilience to the COVID-19 and other similar disinfodemics. This type of attention is not new; it
The Media Literacy Ireland (MLI) Making Sense of Science in MediaHorizon events took place online in October 2020. On Friday 2nd October, Making Sense of Science in Media: Communication and Health explored the challenges and risks around communicating scientific data in a health crisis like Covid-19 and the role of media literacy in helping to create a more receptive environment