Welcome to the News Literacy: Building on Success conference Web site chronicling the second national conference on News Literacy held at Stony Brook University. If you didn’t participate in the conference, this is an opportunity to “attend” the conference yourself. If you did participate, spend a few minutes or a few hours back at the conference reminding yourself of the importance of the News Literacy movement.
Since our first conference, News Literacy: Setting a National Agenda in 2009, news literacy education has spread from Stony Brook to college campuses and high school classrooms across the nation. Our conference in 2011 focused on how to reach tens of thousands additional students and how to improve and assess what we are teaching. On this Web site, you’ll hear from a variety of participants currently teaching News Literacy in innovative ways at universities, community colleges and in high schools. You’ll hear about a new plan to share timely materials with fresh, examples ripped from the headlines for classroom use. You can watch a panel of experts on the impact of the Digital Revolution on the teaching of News Literacy and watch sample News Literacy class lessons taught by Stony Brook professors. A keynote “Conversation with Ken Auletta” lets you hear from one of the media industry’s foremost experts on the changing media landscape, its implications and challenges.
Most importantly, learn how your institution—college, university, high school, foundation or news organization—can teach or support News Literacy in the future. And feel free to send this link to others who might be interested.
