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Resources
Literacy Week in early November to bring attention to the need for media literacy
education. (Full disclosure: The News Literacy Project is a member of NAMLE.)
The Salzburg Academy for Media and Global Change brings together college
students, faculty and media practitioners from around the world for three weeks
every summer in Salzburg, Austria, to examine media issues and create global
media literacy curricula and learning guides. (The lesson plans, which explore the
intersection of media literacy and civil society and are available free
of charge, are currently offline; this will be updated with a hyperlink when they
are available.)
The Trust Project is a consortium of international news organizations (including
The Economist, The Globe and Mail, the Independent Journal Review, La
Repubblica, La Stampa and The Washington Post). Based at the Markkula Center
for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University in Santa Clara, California, the Trust
Project is developing transparency standards that will enable people to assess the
quality of whatever they are reading, watching or hearing.
UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization)
has published Journalism, ‘Fake News’ & Disinformation, a journalism education
handbook and model curriculum with seven modules offering guidance on
identifying and debunking misinformation and disinformation. Another UNESCO
initiative, the Global Alliance for Partnerships on Media and Information Literacy,
offers a variety of resources, including a model curriculum and other online tools for
teachers. UNESCO also sponsors Global Media and Information Literacy Week.
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