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Speaking at News Literacy Conference - 2011.

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Working with the Center for News Literacy, Mr. Spikes has played a critical role in the development of its curriculum that is easily adaptable for both formal, and non-formal educators. The goal of the curriculum is to facilitate public discourse around the topic of Fairness and Balance in the newsgathering process. 

 

Traveling to Bhutan in April of 2012, Michael worked with Center for News Literacy director Dean Miller to facilitate a week-long workshop coordinated with the Bhutan Center for Media and Democracy. The workshop's purpose: enable the citizens of Bhutan to see how the free flow of information would strengthen their infintile democracy. The workshop targeted teachers who were taken through workshops which had them develop lesson plans to take back and use in their own classrooms. This Bhutan partnership was then extended to include another trip in January of 2013, in which Mr. Spikes and Mr. Miller conducted another workshop for teachers in rural Bhutan.

 

Michael and the staff of the Center for News Literacy continue to work with the Bhutan Center for Media and Democracy through the formation of further publications including supplemental lesson plans and video presentations that connect News Literacy concepts to Bhutanese media. 

 

Michael is working with the center in the process of expanding this effort through the planning of workshops in Hong Kong, Kuwait, and Russia. 

 

On the US front, News Literacy has been spread to more than 20 states, including Hawaii, and the US territory of Puerto Rico. Special workshops have been developed in Chicago in conjunction with the Merrill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, and the City Colleges of Chicago. Here, the center is working to develop a full News Literacy course at the school that will then be taught through community workshops. Other efforts include a STEM focused News Literacy curriculum development workshop currently in the planning stages at the University of Akron in Akron, Ohio , which will seek to work together with educators in the STEM fields to develop a curriculum that  focuses around using the scientific process with News Literacy concepts. 

 

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