Media Literacy in the Age of Algorithms, AI, and Disinformation
Date:
January 12, 2026 All day
Price:
Instructor(s):
Alicia Beth, Ph.D.
Event Type:
Virtual
Graduate Credits:
3
Intended Audience:
Educators from early childhood to postsecondary. Participants will apply content and skills to the age/grade bands and/or subject areas that are most relevant to their own roles and contexts.
Participants must attend all events:
- Event Date
- Event Date
Course Description:
This course focuses on the implications of artificial intelligence (AI), mis/disinformation, social media, and related topics on equitable participation in a global democracy. Participants will examine the impacts of AI, algorithmic racism and other inequities, and profit-focused surveillance on our capacities to think, teach, and learn. The impacts of social media on child and adolescent mental health will also be explored. Participants will consider how to critically evaluate, use, and limit technologies for instruction and assessment. They will explore potential uses of AI with their students by drafting, revising, and disclosing the use of AI in their own work.
This course encourages participants to evaluate their own paradigms around digital and media literacy – content that is universally relevant regardless of grade level or subject area. Participants will apply content and skills to the age/grade bands and/or subject areas that are most relevant to their own roles and contexts.
Start/End Dates: January 12, 2026 – April 26, 2026
This is an asynchronous course with optional one-on-one, small group, and/or whole group synchronous Zoom meetings on days to be determined by student schedules and needs.
In addition, students are invited to attend an optional course kick-off meeting on either:
1/13/2026 or 1/14/2026 | 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM
