Announcements

GAPMIL recently published tributes to award recipients. Tessa Jolls was honored by GAPMIL in 2015. The GAPMIL Awards recognize information/library, media and technology specialists, educators, artists, activists, researchers, policy makers, NGOs, associations and other groups integrating MIL (media and information literacy) in an innovative way in their work and related activities. Specifically, the awards recognize excellence and leadership in five sectors: Education, Research, Policy, Advocacy, Media and communication/information industries.  Find out more here. 

MIL CLICKS is a social media innovation led by UNESCO. The objectives of this social media strategy are to use social media to: 1) Expose people to become more media and information literate and 2) Raise awareness about the importance of media and information literacy (MIL).  Read more and watch the video by going to  http://en.unesco.org/MILCLICKS.  

Check out this important research on MIL practices and trends! A cross-country comparison study of MIL in 28 European countries, involving sixty-nine scientific experts who contributed to the work. "Public Policies in Media and Information Literacy in Europe: Cross-Country Comparisons," edited by Divine Frau-Meigs, Irma Velez and Julieta Flores Michel, published through ECREA-Routledge Studies in European Communication Research and Education, describes the study and is now available from Amazon. It offers the first analysis on public policies in Media, Information and Computer Literacies in Europe, and provides mapping across the countries and trend forecasting. The methodology used in the study could lend itself to a similar study for North America. https://www.amazon.com/Public-Policies-…/…/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1…

Get involved with a global MIL effort! The GAPMIL meeting will take place on the pre-conference day of NAMLE, June 26th in Chicago. This meeting is free to attend and all are welcome. We will form Working Groups and a Steering committee. Hope to see you there!

NORTH AMERICAN GAPMIL SUB-CHAPTER MEETING a joint effort between Canada & the U.S. through UNESCO 1pm - 5pm at Roosevelt University, Chicago, IL.

For detailed information on all NAMLE pre-conference events go to: https://namleconference.net/pre-conference-information/. Or respond to GAPMIL directly at gapmilnam@gmail.com.