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Lessons Learned: Mother Turned Advocate Gets Media Literacy and Internet Safety Bill Passed in Indiana Legislation

Lessons Learned: Mother Turned Advocate Gets Media Literacy and Internet Safety Bill Passed in Indiana

Joann Bogard’s media literacy advocacy began in 2019 after tragically losing her 15-year-old son, Mason,…

AdministratorJune 3, 2024

The Importance of Media Literacy in a Culture of Polarization and Mistrust The Situation

The Importance of Media Literacy in a Culture of Polarization and Mistrust

By Rosemary Smith When our two youngest sons were high school freshmen, they were pallbearers…

AdministratorFebruary 29, 2024

Social Media Posts Have Power, and So Do You Advisory Board Network

Social Media Posts Have Power, and So Do You

By Alice Huguet, Julia H. Kaufman, Melissa Kay Diliberti In a healthy democracy, having accurate information is…

AdministratorFebruary 13, 2024

What is Radical Joy or Recordaré? The Situation

What is Radical Joy or Recordaré?

By Rosemary Smith, Managing Director of Getting Better Foundation In November 2021, I wrote a…

AdministratorDecember 5, 2023

Media Literacy Education: Counteracting the Disruption Advisory Board Network

Media Literacy Education: Counteracting the Disruption

By Belinha De Abreu, PhD. Censorship, cancel culture, Generative AI, ethics, or lack of ethics…

AdministratorNovember 2, 2023

The importance of media literacy in a culture of extremist violence Advisory Board Network

The importance of media literacy in a culture of extremist violence

By Renee Hobbs The United States is now experiencing significant levels of political extremism, rage,…

AdministratorAugust 16, 2023

What is Radical Acceptance? The Situation

What is Radical Acceptance?

By Rosemary Smith, Managing Director of Getting Better Foundation As I meet with educators all…

AdministratorMarch 12, 2021

Education Closes the Gap that Legislation Leaves Open Education

Education Closes the Gap that Legislation Leaves Open

Written by Joe Phelps There’s a lot of talk about legislating more governmental control of…

AdministratorFebruary 9, 2021

Social Media is Only Part of the Problem Media

Social Media is Only Part of the Problem

Written by Joe Phelps, CEO, Getting Better Foundation Netflix’s documentary, ”The Social Dilemma”, exposed the…

AdministratorJanuary 14, 2021

How fake news leads to conspiracy theories Crime

How fake news leads to conspiracy theories

Written by Rosemary Smith, Managing Director of Getting Better Foundation Besides being potentially avoidable tragedies,…

AdministratorJanuary 4, 2021