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“Media literacy is about empowering people to ta

“Media literacy is about empowering people to take control of their own media consumption and creation.” -National Association for Media Literacy Education @medialiteracyed

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#dearparents now more than ever we are looking for

#dearparents now more than ever we are looking for ways to understand what the right balance of technology abs media works for our lives. Helping our kids to find both enriching and entertaining ways to engage with information through technology and new media will help them gain essential skills needed for the 21st century workforce.
Finding the right balance can also allow us to use technology to inspire our own creativity instead of having it drain us of that energy.

Read more & engage with us ~ http://www.americancanary.org/blog/being-creative-and-being-online-whats-the-relationship/ ~ link in bio

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“Media literacy is not a luxury, it's a necessit

“Media literacy is not a luxury, it's a necessity.” -Barack Obama

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Photo: This April 18, 2008 file photo shows Democratic presidential candidate US Senator Barack Obama speaking during a townhall meeting at The Behrend College in Erie, Pennsylvania. Barack Obama was poised to make history by becoming America's first black presidential nominee on June 3, 2008, as a flow of Democratic Party support thrust his rival Hillary Clinton towards defeat. AFP PHOTO / FILES / Emmanuel Dunand

Reflect on a narrative or idea you once believed b

Reflect on a narrative or idea you once believed but no longer do. Why and how did you change your views?
How did you perpetuate the old narrative/idea?
How are you perpetuating the new narrative/idea?

Understanding that we don’t always control the narratives we consume will make it easier for us to challenge and question those put before us. Developing resiliency to challenging and changing our stance when new information arises will make it easier to let go of harmful narratives.

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“Media literacy is not about teaching people wha

“Media literacy is not about teaching people what to think, but how to think critically about media messages.” -Common Sense Media

Learn more @commonsenseorg

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Media Lit 🔥🔥🔥🔥 A fundamental component

Media Lit 🔥🔥🔥🔥 A fundamental component of democracy is that the citizens electing representatives are truthfully informed, but we are all exposed to false or decontextualized segments of information through the digital ecosystems we engage with.

Our ability to critically analyze the information placed before us is essential to the survival of democracy.

Questioning the source of information is the first step to critical analysis.

Read more ~ http://www.americancanary.org/blog/why-is-media-literacy-important/ ~ link in bio!

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"Media literacy means critically understanding the

"Media literacy means critically understanding the messages we receive from the media." - Amy Jensen

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Take your voice off social media and send your vie

Take your voice off social media and send your views directly to your elected representative!

Find your reps here ~ https://www.usa.gov/elected-officials ~ check out how to write a letter here ~ https://www.apa.org/advocacy/guide/letter-email ~ links in bio
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“The bond of our common humanity is stronger tha

“The bond of our common humanity is stronger than the divisiveness of our fears and prejudices.” — Jimmy Carter

Look past the party, see the person🙌

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#dearparents We know navigating what social media

#dearparents We know navigating what social media platforms are safe is a constant job. With so many outlets to consider it can be overwhelming to understand what risks need attention and which actions are safe. Having open dialogue with your kids about their online behavior is a good first step.

Looking for someone to talk through tech and media issues with?? Reach out to us via Direct Message to start a one-on-one conversation with a technology coach today!

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“There is frequently more to be learned from the

“There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.” -John Locke

Do you think we have civil discourse within our society? Share your thoughts with us and comment 👇

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How does the construction of social media platform

How does the construction of social media platforms impact our use?
Understanding how the social media algorithm impacts the information you see is a great step to becoming a more mindful media user. All of the major social spaces deploy a relevancy based algorithm which simply means you are seeing content based off your past engagement with the space. The more you like the more you see, then less you engage with information the less of that type you will see, creating a very unique information experience for us all.

What is your feed like ~ share below or comment on our blog ~ http://www.americancanary.org/blog/why-is-media-literacy-important/ ~ link in bio!
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“They'll tell you you're too loud, that you need

“They'll tell you you're too loud, that you need to wait your turn and ask the right people for permission. Do it anyway.” -Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc

Photo: Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez speaking at a Senate Climate Change Taskforce discussion in Washington, on 23 June. Photograph: Michael Brochstein/SOPA Images/REX/Shutterstock

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Reflect on the sources for your cultural and histo

Reflect on the sources for your cultural and historical understanding of the United States.

What was the source and perspective of information you were presented and believed? What is the benefit to you believing their perspective of historical events?

In spite of the ability to see first-hand the information needed to make a logically informed decision based upon evidence, many Americans still rely on a single media outlet and/or social media content and conversations to develop their opinion on current events. When we take information and boil it down to a 10-word headline or a 45-second broadcasting segment, a lot can get lost in translation as choices are made in the construction of how certain information is being presented. Even a 2000 word article can not fully articulate the depth of information that is needed to understand the complexity of any given event and ends up being a narrative curated to provide what the writer and editors believed to be the most “essential” information for their target audience to learn.

Read more ~ http://www.americancanary.org/blog/why-is-media-literacy-important/ ~ link in bio!

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What do you think about public online shaming? Sha

What do you think about public online shaming? Share your thoughts with us below…

Want to learn more about this topic? Check out "15 Minutes of Shame," a documentary about public shaming in the Internet era. The film explores public shaming and cyber-bullying through the stories of four individuals who have been the victims of massive online shaming. Through the voices of bullies, victims, bystanders, psychologists, politicians, experts, and the media the film explores this important facet of modern life.
Streaming on @hbomax

Link in bio to trailer ~ https://youtu.be/dhJrnNdH-aw

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Democracy depends on the participation of informed

Democracy depends on the participation of informed citizens. How much do you know about what your representation is doing? How often do you keep tabs of their work outside of election time? Do you keep track of the promises they keep and break?

If you could make one outlandish demand to your rep and it would come true, what would it be????

When we elect a representative to Congress they become the voice of the people. They hold the legislative power to pass or turn down Bills that become laws. Laws that impact the lives of each citizen.

Voting a representative into or out of office is one piece of the accountability puzzle but there is more we can do to impact what happens outside of the election cycle.

Now there are many sites out there to find out who your representatives are, how to contact them and what they are doing but we find the app @countable makes it almost too easy to stay informed and in contact with your respresentatives.
So simple you could message your rep everyday in under a minute!
Think of all the demands we could make or maybe just get them to do what they said they would.
Whatever it is you wish to say, we hope you become informed, find your voice and engage it to strengthen our democracy today!
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“Resentment grows out of perceived unfairness.” -Eve Rodsky

More Americans resent our government and one another, I wonder if it is because of how unfair our systems have become. Whether it is economics, environmental issues or parental division of labor many of our systems are created to benefit only the top 10% while the rest of us fight over scraps of time, money and space. What if we changed that?

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Introducing Media Production Learning with America

Introducing Media Production Learning with American Canary, comment with what you want to learn to create 🙌

What are you saying online? What information do yo

What are you saying online? What information do you engage with and help spread to others? How does it reflect your personal values?

Be critical of the information you share and add to the digital ecosystem we are a part of 🙌

Every time you like, share, comment you help that information reach more people, amplifying and adding value to the message as it spreads.

Learn more at our site ~ americancanary.org ~ link in bio!
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“I’ve always subscribed to the belief that the

“I’ve always subscribed to the belief that the best leader is not one who has the most followers, but one who creates the most leaders. I strive every day — and in every program and offering we have at Integrous Women — to create more conscious, confident, and soulful leaders who, in return, will build a better world for all.”
- Stephanie Courtillier (Founder, Integrous Women)

Photo by Lindsay Newman @lindznewm

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Do you have a healthy balance in your media consum

Do you have a healthy balance in your media consumption? How diverse is the type of content you consume? Where do you consume from? What technology do you consume through? Finding the right balance of where we find content, what tools we engage with and how much time we spend engaging will lead to a more productive and enriching experience.
Share how you diversify your social feeds and find the balance in your own life 🙌

Learn more about how to insert mindfulness into your media with us ~ visit our site ~ link in bio ~ http://www.americancanary.org

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“If you don’t see a clear path for what you wa

“If you don’t see a clear path for what you want, sometimes you have to make it yourself.” -Mindy Kaling

Happy International Women’s Day 🥳🙌

Comment below with stories of how you blazed your own path forward.

Photographer:
Ari Michelson

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Media Lit 🔥🔥🔥🔥 So much of how we inter

Media Lit 🔥🔥🔥🔥 So much of how we interpret information stems from our own life experiences, that is why messaging can be interpreted in many ways. Considering multiple perspectives is one important step to creating more mindfulness in your media consumption.

Learn more at https://www.americancanary.org

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“The media's the most powerful entity on earth.

“The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.” -Malcolm X

How has the media influenced your perception of the world and people in it?

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May is mental health awareness month and we challe

May is mental health awareness month and we challenge you to take stock on how the media you consume and the technology you use has an impact on your mental health and ability to achieve your life goals. Read our reflections ~ link in bio and share your own as a comment below or on our blog. Have a conversation with someone you trust and explore the impacts of your digital environment today 🙌

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“I’m not leaving it for someone else to tell m

“I’m not leaving it for someone else to tell me that that’s what I should be doing, or to get in my way. It’s more about what have I done? What am I saying? Is this enough? Is this what I have to say? I don't want to be perceived as having been waiting to be allowed to speak.” – Bebe Miller

Bebe Miller started her eponymous dance company in 1985. Since then she has created more than 50 dance works for the company and expanded her choreographic vocabulary to include digital media, text, theater, and other narrative elements. With features at Jacob’s Pillow, the Walker Art Center, the Wexner Center for the Arts, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and other national and international venues, Miller has cemented her reputation as one of dance’s foremost innovators. Her singular vision has garnered her a U.S. Artists Ford Fellowship, a Doris Duke Artist Award, four NEA Choreographers Fellowships, and many other awards. She also had a long tenure as the Distinguished Professor of Dance at Ohio State University, and most recently, she’s expanded her repertoire to include fostering artist-driven convenings around the topic of archiving and documenting dance works.

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What are you saying online? What information do yo

What are you saying online? What information do you engage with and help spread to others?

Be critical of the information you share and add to the digital ecosystem we are a part of 🙌

Every time you like, share, comment you help that information reach more people, amplifying and adding value to the message as it spreads.

Learn more at our site ~ americancanary.org ~ link in bio!
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“Dreams are lovely but they are just dreams. Fle

“Dreams are lovely but they are just dreams. Fleeting, ephemeral, pretty. But dreams do not come true just because you dream them. It’s hard work that makes things happen. It’s hard work that creates change.” – Shonda Rhimes

Shonda Rhimes ’91 is an Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning screenwriter, producer, director, author, and CEO of the global media company Shondaland. Shonda is the first Black woman creator and executive producer of a top 10 network television series, the mega-hit Grey’s Anatomy. She’s also the creator of Scandal and the executive producer of How to Get Away with Murder and Bridgerton.

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How did media make you feel this week? Whether it

How did media make you feel this week?

Whether it was the news you read, a movie you watched or a meme you shared all media we see and consume can create strong emotional reactions. Developing a habit of reflection can help you better understand the energy you are getting from the information you consume. Not that it can always be sunshine and daisies but we can better regulate the negative information we are exposing ourselves to and find a healthy balance 🙌

Share with us and insert mindfulness into your media use today!
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“As a writer, a failure is just information. It’s something that I’ve done wrong in writing, or is inaccurate or unclear. I recognize failure—which is important; some people don’t—and fix it, because it is data, it is information, knowledge of what does not work.” –Toni Morrison

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Photo: Novelist Toni Morrison discusses her venture into playwriting in Albany, New York, on December 23, 1985. Bettmann via Getty Images

The construction of messaging impacts our percepti

The construction of messaging impacts our perception. 🔥🔥🔥🔥 Media messages are constructed using a creative language with its own rules. Each form of communication has its own creative language: scary music heightens fear, camera close-ups convey intimacy, big headlines signal significance. Understanding the grammar, syntax and metaphor of media language helps us to be less susceptible to manipulation.

Reflect upon the choice and use of language in the messaging you consume and react to. Have a conversation with a friend about messaging construction and build a critical eye for understanding the purpose behind messaging online.

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“I am so tired of waiting. Aren’t you, for the

“I am so tired of waiting.
Aren’t you,
for the world to become good
and beautiful and kind?
Let us take a knife
and cut the world in two—
and see what worms are eating
at the rind.”
-Langston Hughes

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Photograph by Carl Van Vechten / Carl Van Vechten Trust / Beinecke Library, Yale

Information impacts us all in different ways becau

Information impacts us all in different ways because we have all had different experiences that shape the way we interpret and react to the content we consume.

To say or not to say, to post or not to post, to share or not to share? These are the questions we should be asking ourselves each and every time we engage online.
Swipe to learn more about being a digital citizen who supports open and productive discourse 🙌

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“The cost of liberty is less than the price of r

“The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression." –W.E.B. Du Bois

How does living in a capitalistic democracy inhibit progress and equality?

Photograph: Alamy Stock Photo of WEB Dubois

Any African American to be admitted to Harvard University in 1888 had to be exceptionally gifted. But that description doesn’t come close to capturing the talent of WEB Du Bois, a man who managed to write 21 books, as well as over 100 essays while being a professor and a relentless civil rights activist.

Du Bois saw no trade-off between those pursuits – his scholarship was protest and his protest was scholarship. He deeply understood something that every activist scrawling a banner in Washington knows today – messaging matters.

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The cycle of media literacy is easy to follow once

The cycle of media literacy is easy to follow once you know the steps 🙌
1. Reflect and understand your own values in life ~ what is important to you?
2. Identify your purpose for being online ~ connection, research, entertainment?
3. Critically analyze the information you choose to ingest and the sources for that info ~ who wrote, why, what are they trying to gain?
4. Be mindful about how the content you consume impacts your mental and physical health ❤️

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“Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.” -Jim Morrison

What is your media telling you to believe?

Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images

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We all interpret visual information based off our

We all interpret visual information based off our past experiences and understanding of the world. Recognizing that messages can be interpreted in different ways can help us be more aware of the underlying intentions.

Take pause and create mindfulness in your media use ~ learn more at https://www.americancanary.org ~ link in bio!

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"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional lo

"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant."
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, Oslo, Norway, 1964.

Photo: From left, Ralph Abernathy, James Forman, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the Rev. Jesse Douglas and John Lewis lead a march from Selma to Montgomery in 1965, in a scene from the Paramount documentary “I Am MLK Jr.”Credit...Steve Schapiro

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🔥🔥 Being informed is more than just ingestin

🔥🔥 Being informed is more than just ingesting information. It is digging for the truth with a critical eye through multiple sources, each presenting a slightly different spin. It is when we examine a story from multiple perspectives that we can develop a fuller picture. The way social media and news aggregating sites pull information to present to you through relevancy algorithms makes seeing diverse story perspectives that much harder, requiring active engagement to pull out the full truth.

Go beyond the headline, go beyond one article, one source. Diversify and dig. Our democracy depends on it 🔥🔥🔥

Read more ~ http://www.americancanary.org/blog/why-is-media-literacy-important/ ~ link in bio!

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“Be open to learning new lessons, even if they c

“Be open to learning new lessons, even if they contradict the lessons you learned yesterday.” —Ellen DeGeneres

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