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@HumboldtUni Ich halte das für fundamental falsch, weil #Schulen heutzutage nichtmals fundamentale #MediaLiteracy geschweige denn #TechLiteracy hinbekommen.

Wir brauchen mit solchem Bullshit nicht anfangen bevor niht jede #Schule #Glasfaser und mindestens nen kompletten Klassensatz an #Pi500 am Start hat damit #Schüler*innen auch #Informatik lernen und nicht zu #Microsoft-#Kunden verblödet werden!!!

Ernsthaft, da hätte die #EU das in andere #Forschung und #Entwicklung oder #Infrastruktur investieren können, statt irgendwelche #Buzzwords wie #AI nachzurennen die eh nur dazu da sind #Geldverbrennung zu betreiben!

📢 A Filipino reporter exposed a massive disinformation network spreading false claims defending ex-President Duterte after his ICC arrest. Using manual data sleuthing, she uncovered 200+ identical posts framing the arrest as “kidnapping.” A crucial fight against fake news & coordinated influence ops! 🕵️‍♀️🇵🇭 #Disinformation #Philippines #JournalismMatters #FactCheck #MediaLiteracy gijn.org/stories/exposing-disi #newz

gijn.orgHow a Filipino Reporter Exposed Disinformation Networks Defending an Ex-President After His ArrestPhilippine reporter Cristina Chi  uncovered an orchestrated disinformation campaign on Facebook to falsely portray the arrest of the country's ex-president.

We’re starting off the week with a reflection on a wise, genre-transcending film by Ryan Coogler. This is not your mama’s vampire story. This is about the limits of seeking freedom in all its human-cursed forms.

#BetterWorldsTheory #Movies #MediaLiteracy #Horror
open.substack.com/pub/mlclark/

Better Worlds Theory · Sinners, and the Struggle to TranscendBy M L Clark
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Shhh! Don' tell anybody, but we are in the process of a ground-up redesign of our website to make our film-based learning resources easier for everyone to find.

In the meantime, we're aware that it can be hard to find things on our site. We'd love to help you find what you need.

Take a look around our library yourself. If you'd like help finding anything by film length, student age, subject, theme, activity, or anything else, drop us a note on Mastodon or through the contact section of our site, and we'll do our best to find you the very thing.

Also, if you're using resources as a grandparent, parent or babysitter, or otherwise outside a formal learning environment, we'd love to hear what you're using and how it works for you. Drop us a note here in the Fediverse or contact us through our site. /5

journeysinfilm.org/library/

#Parenting #Families #Childcare #Education #MediaLiteracy @parenting

Journeys in FilmLibrary | Journeys in Film
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Finally, we've just launched a new series of free creative prompts based on super-short films that are bite-sized for kids' attention spans.

Watch a film that's as short as one minute, then springboard off a prompt for reflection, journaling, discussion or creative writing.

We offer prompts for a super short films across a range of subjects and themes, suitable for kids of al ages. (Yes, the films and prompts are all free.) /4

journeysinfilm.org/articles/wa

@education @film #Parenting #Families #MediaLiteracy #Childcare #Babysitting #Homeschooling #Education #ShortFilm

Journeys in Film · Watch and Write: New Classroom Warm-Ups | Journeys in FilmIntroducing Watch and Write! Give your classroom a creative kickstart with a free super-short film plus a prompt for writing or discussion.
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We also offer free lesson plans and activities, for children as young as 8 years, across a range of school subjects. These are great for homeschooling and classroom use -- and they can provide fun, educational ways to keep kids busy and learning.

Several guides include hands-on arts and crafts activities, like the instructions for making a bug kite for the free short film The Love Bugs. (For ages 8 and up).

Many lessons also include printable hand-outs that kids can work on solo.

Some guides are also available in Spanish and Portuguese.

We offer lesson plans & activities for He Named Me Malala, The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind, Whale Rider and more!

Learn more at the link below and read on for some fun short film activities in the next post. /3

journeysinfilm.org/articles/ma

#Parenting #Families #MediaLiteracy #Childcare #Babysitting #Homeschooling #GlobalEducation #Education @education

Journeys in Film · Make Teaching Easy with Classroom-Ready Lesson Plans | Journeys in FilmSimplify your school year with classroom-ready lesson plans from Journeys in Film! Our free curriculum guides for award-winning films contain ready-to-teach lessons for elementary, middle school, and high school instruction. Our lesson plans are created by teams of area experts and instructional designers to boost student engagement and teach critical thinking across the curriculum. The […]
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Our free film discussion guides are appropriate for children as young as 8 years old. They can help students dig deeper into the facts and themes of a film -- on their own, in discussion with others, or as a prompt for journaling and reflection.

Some of our guides are also available in Spanish.

We offer discussion guides for:
- Short films like Golden Age Karate (5 minutes);
- Disney films like Hidden Figures;
- Documentaries like Jane about Dr. Jane Goodall;
- Docu-series like Genius about Albert Einstein;
- and more!

Learn more at the link below and read on for even more resources in the next post. 2/3

journeysinfilm.org/articles/di

#Parenting #Families #MediaLiteracy #Childcare #Babysitting #Homeschooling #GlobalEducation #Education @education

Journeys in Film · Discussion Guides Make Screening Films Easy | Journeys in FilmOur free Discussion Guides make hosting rousing discussions around film screenings to boost impact and engagement.

A new study reports that screen time is prevalent under grandparents' care.

If you are a grandparent (or anyone else caring for children), and you want to enrich children's media experience, we offer media-based learning materials and activities for kids as young as 8 years old. Like all of our resources, these fun learning tools are free for everyone.

Many of those films, series and games are also available for free, too.

More in the posts that follow below ! 1/n

phys.org/news/2025-04-screen-p

Phys.org · Screen time prevalent under grandparents' care, study findsBy Logan Burtch-Buus

April 2 is International Fact-Checking Day. Teach with riveting films like Navalny and The Post to equip your students with tools and skills to evaluate media accuracy. Our classroom-ready lessons can help you foster critical thinking about producing, consuming and sharing media.

Our Media Literacy Lessons explore on Fake News, Media Analysis, Propaganda, and more. For grades 6-12.

journeysinfilm.org/product/med

#InternationalFactCheckingDay #MediaLiteracy #Homeschooling @education

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When evaluating some random claim someone makes on the Internet, you can ask yourself:

- Do they say *how they know this*? Do they have a link to an article or mention a book or person you can look up?

- For claims about a historical event, is any date and place given?

Now, of course, any random person can write a blog post or article saying anything they want. There are many ways to evaluate how trustworthy an article is—including asking the questions above. But let's take small steps for now!

(P. S. the original clip: youtube.com/watch?v=iHrZRJR4ig )

"GPT-4o is partly (aside from some licensed content) a product of a massive scrape of the Internet without regard to copyright or consent from artists ... GPT-4o's image generation model (and the technology behind it, once open source) feels like it further erodes trust in remotely produced media ... Everyone needs media literacy skills ..." arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/ope via @arstechnica

Ars Technica · OpenAI’s new AI image generator is potent and bound to provokeBy Benj Edwards