Get involved! 2015 is the Year of the Volunteer

August 10, 2014

Senate Resolution Sets Year of the Volunteer. SR 1002 sets in motion a celebration of the accomplishments of volunteers and the many ways they address the needs of communities, schools, and the workforce. Volunteers are the foundation for news literacy. A Senate Forum in June launched the effort that targets volunteering, service, civic engagement and being [...]

6 principles of news literacy

July 30, 2014

“News literacy is the acquisition of 21st-century, critical-thinking skills for analyzing and judging the reliability of news and information, differentiating among facts, opinions and assertions in the media we consume, create and distribute. It can be taught most effectively in cross-curricular, inquiry-based formats at all grade levels. It is a necessary component for literacy in [...]

Portal managers show marketing chops

July 11, 2014

In Chicago neighborhoods that operate one of the community portals supported by LISC Chicago, the portal managers have been aggressively recruiting new contributors through a curriculum framed around news literacy. Created as part of the McCormick Foundation’s Why News Matters program, the trainings start with analysis of what the mainstream media writes about the [...]

Digging deeper with Chicago Public Library’s Summer Learning Challenge

July 2, 2014

How do you teach news literacy to students on their summer break? Make it fun and toss in a few (sometimes live) animals. At the Chicago Public Library’s (CPL) Douglass branch on June 9, Mayor Rahm Emanuel kicked off the Rahm’s Readers Summer Learning Challenge, aimed at getting Chicago kids to read 2.4 million [...]

Visualizing the power of youth media through infographics

May 21, 2014

More positive self-image. More likely to follow news media and engage critically with it. An ability to understand issues facing society. These are among the many impacts of youth media programs, including news literacy programming, discussed at the April 29, 2014, “Power of Youth Voice Evidence and Action” convening of more than 100 stakeholders in [...]

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