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Media Literacy Now is a nonprofit advocacy organization with a mission to drive reform of the U.S. public education system to ensure all students have the opportunity to learn the key 21st-century literacy skills they need for health, well-being, economic participation, and
State lawmakers in five states continued to make progress in establishing media literacy education as an essential element in K-12 schools despite a two-year global pandemic, according to the newly released 2021 U.S. Media Literacy Policy Report.
The following report maps what’s what and who’s who in the field of media literacy education today, and where, how, and why the prominent players in the field practice media literacy in various ways that may present opportunities or complications for outreach and for potential partnerships with the MLE community.
A nonpartisan effort, the U.S Media Literacy Report 2020 concludes that only 14 states have taken substantial legislative action for media literacy education. Ohio and Florida were revealed to have the strongest media literacy education policies for K-12 curriculum.
Media literacy is a field that has had its fair share of highs and lows over the last 70 years in an effort to find its place in educational systems from the United Kingdom to the United States and from Israel to China.
Media literacy and the K-12 content areas. In Schwarz G., and Brown P.U. (Eds.), Media literacy: Transforming curriculum and teaching. The 104th yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education , Part I (pp. 74—99).
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Media literacy education in the United States is actively focused on the instructional methods and pedagogy of media literacy, integrating theoretical and critical frameworks rising from constructivist learning theory, media studies and cultural studies scholarship.
