SPOTLIGHT
AME welcomes invitations to present in schools. Here AME Board member Di Zhang is meeting with students at Lake Washington High School to address the complexities of today’s polarizing and confusing media landscape. This session was incorporated into their English Language Arts (ELA) class curriculum as part of a media literacy unit.
COMING SOON
AI Literacy Day is April 19. Join the nation-wide events by clicking the image above!
NEW CURRICULUM
Board member Anne Stewart and her team of North Central WA teachers/librarians created the curriculum unit, “How is Being a Citizen Online the Same as Being One in Real Life?” This unit offers 12 inquiry-based lessons with formative performance tasks and suggested resources for educators to choose from depending on the age and needs of their students. Use/adapt/download this Open Education Resource (OER) by clicking the image above.
TEEN VOICES
Teens have several thoughts and ideas to share with us when talking about the importance of becoming media literate. Here are some posters created by Michael Danielson’s students at Seattle Preparatory School. Michael is AME’s Chairperson