ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (Jan. 22, 2020) – The Poynter Institute announces it has received funding from Facebook to launch a national media literacy program called the MediaWise Voter Project (#MVP). The ...

Our vision is to build a vibrant culture of information literacy that is integrated into the core curriculum of our college. We believe that information literacy is not a one-time skill but an ongoing ...

Academic librarians were quick to react to the threat posed by Internet competition. In 1989, half a dozen years before the first official release of Netscape, they recognized the explosion in ...

MediaWise, the Poynter Institute’s media literacy initiative, is partnering with DataLEADS, a digital media and technology company, and its media literacy program, FactShala, to launch the first of ...

Beginning in 2017, UHLILC periodically hosts an Information Literacy Summit as a professional development opportunity across academic institutions, schools, and public libraries statewide. The summit ...

When we started using a new literacy program 10 years ago, our reading scores were mediocre. Within a few years we had moved up to being a Level 1+ school, which is one of the highest rankings for ...

Health literacy plays a central role in health outcomes, equity, and access to care. It reflects the dynamic interaction between individual skills, communication practices, materials and tasks, and ...

Information Literacy prepares students to be critical and effective information seekers and users, both in general and in their disciplines. Students come to Hope College well-accustomed to the ...

Faculty and graduate students in the Literacy Studies program study and design literacies in print and multimodal modes and in varied contexts. Literacies are framed as central to envisioning and ...