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MLA4MedLit online conference

Media & Learning Association @medialearning.bsky.social · 12d

📢 Registration open!

🗓️ 17 Oct 2025 | 10:00–16:00 CET 💻 Online | Free | In English

Join educators, policymakers, fact-checkers & more to debate AI, disinformation & digital citizenship.

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This year’s MLA4MedLit one-day online conference, taking place on Friday, 17th October, “Building Societal Resilience through Digital and Media Literacy for Everyone” takes its lead from a growing…

Media & Learning Association @medialearning.bsky.social · 26d

📢 Online event "Driving Educational Innovation: The Role of Teaching & Learning Centres"

📅 20 November 2025
🕛14:00–15:00 CEST
📍Online💻

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MLA4MedLit online conference

Media & Learning Association @medialearning.bsky.social · 26d

📢 🕶 Reframing Reality — The Ethics of a Shared World

📅 23 October 2025
🕛14:00–15:00 CEST
📍Online 💻

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#XR #EthicsInTech #ImmersiveLearning #EdTech

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Media & Learning Association @medialearning.bsky.social · Sep 18

📢 Registration open!

🗓️ 17 Oct 2025 | 10:00–16:00 CET
💻 Online | Free | In English

MLA4MedLit 2025: “Building Societal Resilience through Digital & Media Literacy for Everyone.”

👉 Register now: buff.ly/zrY8gpO

#MediaLiteracy #DigitalCitizenship

This year’s MLA4MedLit one-day online conference, taking place on Friday, 17th October, “Building Societal Resilience through Digital and Media Literacy for Everyone” takes its lead from a growing…

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Media & Learning Association @medialearning.bsky.social · Sep 17

📰 September newsletter is here! 🎉

Check out updates, articles, project news, and upcoming events on media literacy.
Read more ➡️https://buff.ly/Un01aiy

#HigherEducation #MediaLiteracy #AI #XR #VR

September 2025

Media & Learning Association @medialearning.bsky.social · Sep 16

📢 Online Event “Assessment in the age of generative AI”.

📅 16 October 2025
🕛14:00–15:00 CEST
📍Online 💻

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#AI #Assessment #AIinEducation

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Media & Learning Association @medialearning.bsky.social · Aug 25

✨ “Custom GPTs for Teaching and Learning” exploring the educational potential of tailor‑made AI chatbots.
📅 25 September 2025
🕛14:00–15:00 CEST
📍Online💻
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#AIinEducation #CustomGPTs #DigitalPedagogy #EdTech

Media & Learning Association @medialearning.bsky.social · Aug 24

📢 “Persuasion by Design: Understanding Influencers” as part of Wednesday webinars series.
Perfect for educators & researchers.
📅24 September
🕛14:00–15:15 CEST
📍Online 💻
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#MediaLiteracy #Influencers #CriticalThinking #Webinar

Media & Learning Association @medialearning.bsky.social · Aug 19

📚Share & Explore!
Have a tool, guideline, or course for teaching & learning?

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#EdTech #DigitalLearning #EducationResources

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Welcome to our newest member from Malaysia!

Media & Learning Association @medialearning.bsky.social · Aug 8

Media & Learning Association is pleased to welcome a new networking member:
Media and Information Literacy for ASEAN Network , Malaysia.

Learn more about our new member: buff.ly/PxyaveK

Welcome aboard! We look forward to collaborating with you. 🎉

This month, the Media & Learning Association is pleased to welcome one new networking member: Media and Information Literacy for ASEAN Network, Malaysia. The MIL for ASEAN Network is a vibrant…

Learning Impact Europe 2025 Conference

Media & Learning Association @medialearning.bsky.social · Aug 7

🎉 Exciting news for MLA members! Get discounted registration for Learning Impact Europe 2025, 23-24 Sept, Delft. More info:
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#LearningImpactEurope #EdTech #DigitalLearning #HigherEd #EducationalTechnology

The conference brings together stakeholders from across the education and technology sectors to explore the latest developments in educational technology

Welcome to our newest member from Korea!

Media & Learning Association @medialearning.bsky.social · Aug 6

Media & Learning Association is pleased to welcome a new organisational member:The korea Press Foundation, South Korea.

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Welcome aboard! We look forward to collaborating with you. 🎉

This month the Media & Learning Association is pleased to welcome one new organisational member: Korea Press Foundation, Korea The Korea Press Foundation is a public institution under the Ministry of…

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Media & Learning Association @medialearning.bsky.social · Aug 5

August newsletter is now live! 📣
✔️CTLs under the spotlight
✔️Exploring the power of XR in higher education
✔️MLA annual conference 2025 report
and more...
Read the newsletter ➡️https://buff.ly/qXDPrNX

#HigherEducation #MediaLiteracy #AI #XR #VR

August 2025

What kind of MIL policies do we actually need?

Media & Learning Association @medialearning.bsky.social · Jul 16

💡 What Media & Information Literacy (MIL) Policies Do We Need?
Irene Andriopoulou tackles key questions for education and tech. A must-read!
👉 Explore it here: buff.ly/Bruu8dy

#MediaLiteracy #DigitalPolicy #DigitalCitizenship

by Irene Andriopoulou, Hellenic Film and Audiovisual Center – Creative Greece, Greece. Global research on media literacy is constantly evolving and transforming towards digital, meta-media pathways.

Seeing isn’t always believing: Helping children understand media manipulation

Media & Learning Association @medialearning.bsky.social · Jul 14

🔍 Seeing Isn’t Always Believing: Help kids grasp media manipulation! Maja Cimerman Sitar shares the fun activity “Where Was I?” to show how images can be constructed. 👉 Nurture critical thinking through play:

by Maja Cimerman Sitar, EduSkills+. When we think about media manipulation, we often picture advanced editing software, fake news, or AI-generated deepfakes. But for me, the question starts much…

Copyright in the Classroom | a growing challenge we can’t afford to ignore

Media & Learning Association @medialearning.bsky.social · Jul 13

🎓 Copyright in the Classroom: A Challenge! Get a free checklist & course to use media confidently: buff.ly/37V22ES #EdTech #Copyright #DigitalLearning

by Kathryn Tyler, Learning on Screen, UK. When you started working in education, copyright might have been something you assumed someone else would deal with. A librarian, perhaps. Or a policy tucked…

Beyond Fact-Checking: What Europe gets wrong about disinformation, and How to fix it

Media & Learning Association @medialearning.bsky.social · Jul 12

💡 Rethinking Europe’s Disinformation Strategy: How do we rebuild trust in democracy? Read Sophie L. Vériter's insights on #misinformation and #MediaLiteracy. 🔗

by Sophie L. Vériter, Leiden University, the Netherlands. Misinformation and disinformation[1] have become one of the defining challenges of our time: they impact elections, influence public health…

Educational media that works: Report from the M&L25 conference

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Media & Learning Association @medialearning.bsky.social · Jul 11

Highlights from the Media & Learning Conference 2025: Educational Media That Works – 📚
Zac Woolfitt recaps key themes and innovations, from #XR to AI-driven tools.
🔗Read the full report:

by Zac Woolfitt, Inholland University, The Netherlands. This article on the Media and Learning conference in Leuven 18-19th June 2025 provides a detailed description of many of the highlights from…

Beyond Fact-Checking: What Europe gets wrong about disinformation, and How to fix it

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Sophie L. Vériter @sophiepomme.com · Jul 6

If you're working in digital policy, strategic communications, or media literacy, I’d love to hear your thoughts!

📰 Read the full article here: media-and-learning.eu/subject/medi...

by Sophie L. Vériter, Leiden University, the Netherlands. Misinformation and disinformation[1] have become one of the defining challenges of our time: they impact elections, influence public health…

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Jonathan B. Singer, PhD, LCSW @jbsinger.bsky.social · Jul 7

Mim Fox and I wrote a piece on Podcasting Pedagogy for
@medialearning.bsky.social based on our 2025 text, Podcasting in Social Work Education. Chock full of good ideas, and you get to see my new headshot!

#SWTech #Podcast #SocialScholarship

Podcasting Pedagogy: The missing piece in Higher Education podcasting

by Jonathan B. Singer, Loyola University Chicago, USA and Mim Fox, University of Wollongong, Australia. We know the social work classroom is changing. Students are balancing jobs, caregiving…

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Jonathan B. Singer, PhD, LCSW @jbsinger.bsky.social · Jul 1

Mim Fox and I just wrote a piece on Podcasting Pedagogy for @medialearning.bsky.social based on our 2025 text, Podcasting in Social Work Education. Chock full of good ideas, and you get to see my new headshot!

#SWTech #Podcast #SocialScholarship

Podcasting Pedagogy: The missing piece in Higher Education podcasting

by Jonathan B. Singer, PhD and Mim Fox, PhD, Loyola University Chicago, USA. We know the social work classroom is changing. Students are balancing jobs, caregiving, and field placements…

media-and-learning.eu

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Media & Learning Association @medialearning.bsky.social · Jul 4

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Media & Learning Association @medialearning.bsky.social · Jun 30

AI can generate fake news in seconds.
Can we teach people to spot it just as fast?

A new article from Sahil Shah, Say No to Disinfo looks at what really works when it comes to media literacy—and where we’re falling short.

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Media Literacy in an AI age: What we can learn from the evidence

by Sahil Shah, Say No to Disinfo, UK. Advances in AI are making the creation, dissemination and amplification of mis and disinformation significantly easier, quicker and cheaper, with 60%