October 26–30, 2020, is U.S. Annual Media Literacy Week, sponsored by the National Association for Media Literacy Education and held in conjunction with UNESCO’s Global Media and Information Literacy (MIL) Week. The mission of the week is "to highlight the power of media literacy education and its essential role in education" and, this year, U.S. Media Literacy Week will celebrate one of the five components of media literacy’s definition each day:
A wide range of events has been organized to celebrate the Media Literacy Week. Among these, you can join media literacy expert Renee Hobbs in the discussion of her latest book Mind Over Media: Propaganda Education for a Digital Age.
You can also attend special film screenings, webinars, book talks, and online conversations about media literacy issues.
If you are interested in learning more about medial literacy explore the resources provided by the week organizers. You can learn about what media literacy is and what it means to be media literate nowadays, and you can lean more about the core principles of media literacy.
If you are interesting in putting into practice your expertise in the use of media, especially news, challenge yourself with Friend, Enemy, or Frenemy?, the new literacy challenged sponsored by the University of Maine Folger Library.