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Building Teacher Knowledge, Capacity, and Efficacy for Teaching Media Literacy and Civic Reasoning
Thursday June 5, 2025 10:30am - 11:30am CDT
Media literacy is an important skill for students to develop so they can navigate an information world flooded with competing, conflicting, and contradictory information. This session will share key practices for building students' media literacy for civic reasoning based on an ongoing, multi-year partnership with K-12 teachers and university researchers. Key practices include: 1) building student knowledge of the current information ecosystem, 2) helping students develop key skills for consuming and curating media (e.g., pausing, lateral reading, and identifying expertise), 3) positioning students to draw upon their analytic and evaluation skills to create media that improves civic discourse and understanding around an issue they encounter in the media.

Participants will also have access to a four-module curriculum that was designed and tested in K-12 classrooms:
Module 1 - Describing the media world and your role in it
Module 2 - Responsible consumption
Module 3 - Civically-conscious curation
Module 4 - Civically-active production
Speakers
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Jacob Steiss

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Missouri-Saint Louis
Jacob Steiss is a postdoctoral fellow in the College of Education at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. A former ELA and Social Studies teacher, Jacob teaches one of the first Clinical Experience classes for undergraduates aspiring to be K-12 teachers. He spent the past five years... Read More →
Thursday June 5, 2025 10:30am - 11:30am CDT
  1-Hour Session

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