Marieli Rowe Innovation in Media Literacy Education Award honors Marieli Rowe’s future-oriented vision. It was established in 2021 in honor of National Telemedia Council’s longtime Executive Director and Journal Editor, whose work in the field of media literacy spanned six decades. Marieli created children’s film festivals in the 1960s, organized a satellite interconnect with students in 1981, and grew an organizational newsletter in the 1970s into an internationally renowned journal. Her passion for hiking and mountain climbing carried over into her work. She never stopped asking “Where to next?”
This award recognizes projects that demonstrates innovative critical thinking and pushes the media literacy education field forward by putting ideas into action or connecting people and ideas in new ways.
The International Council for Media Literacy is happy to announce the 2024 Marieli Rowe Award Recipients…
Argentina
“Desinformación Revelada” Traveling Interactive Exhibit
Milena Rosenzvit
“Desinformación Revelada” (in English, “Revealed Disinformation”) is a traveling and interactive exhibition that invites participants to help the characters of three stories detect disinformation and prevent its circulation. We created it at Chequeado, with the support of Innovation for Change. The objective of this project is to raise awareness among citizens about the phenomenon of disinformation as a problem and the damage it causes, share tools and resources to battle it, and encourage the institutions we partner with to engage in the challenge of mitigating it.
Australia
“Adult Media Literacy Engagement Survey and Toolkit”
Tanya Notley, Michael Dezuanni, Sora Park, T.J. Thomson, Aimee Hourigan and Heather Ford
This project brings together four partner organisations (POs)—the national broadcaster, a national archive and museum, and the national association for library and information professionals—to develop effective media literacy initiatives that strategically target adult groups. To inform these initiatives our project is carrying out research that identifies the needs and priorities for this education. To achieve this, the project uses innovative methods to examine where, when and how adult Australians encounter misinformation online and measure people’s ability to take appropriate steps to avoid, analyse, and detect this. Specifically, the project research aims to:
1. Identify adult engagement patterns with misinformation online, through a nationally representative activity-based survey;
2. Uncover the diverse experiences adults have with misinformation online, through a diary study;
3. Develop a model that enables national public cultural institutions to use evidence to design, deliver and evaluate targeted media literacy training programs and resources, through the development of a toolkit and a series of workshop events.
Azerbaijan
“Elele (Turkish for Hand in Hand) Writing, Mentoring, and Collaborating through AI”
Melda Yildiz
The Baku American Center in Azerbaijan, renowned for its language support programs, facilitates the Academic Writing Lab, which caters to participants with varying levels of English proficiency. The Elele – “Hand in Hand” (in Turkish) initiative seeks to propel the Academic Writing Lab’s impact by introducing a digital platform that leads to a conference presentation and publications and invites opportunities for answering Rowe’s rhetorical “where to next?” This platform will serve as a repository for diverse media literacy projects, papers, stories, and instructional materials crafted by global participants. Harnessing the power of AI, it will offer innovative grammar and language software to accommodate participants with limited English proficiency, ensuring their contributions are accessible and impactful.
The Philippines
EMAIL Adventures – Environment Media And Information Literacy Adventures
Kyle V. Aboy
EMAIL Adventures is a youth-led adventure storytelling and immersive experience in promoting media and information literacy, environment, and scientific literacy. Just like a famous tourist spot, we want to create a tour for young people to learn about media and information literacy, eco-literacy, and scientific literacy through a communication, education, and public awareness (CEPA) campaign. We want our target beneficiaries to be immersed in the history, culture, and societal problems that affect the environment, and how we can use media, and information literacy to spark change and create meaningful stories. After the immersive storytelling tours, participants are expected to create CEPA materials in their classrooms in different creative forms such as video, posters, digital campaigns, paintings, artworks, etc. These CEPA materials will be posted online and on different social media platforms. We want to teach media and information literacy in an innovative way, which is through immersive storytelling experiences.
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