Local group is offering Media Literacy Workshop in Grand Rapids 1/28

The local group STOK – Stop Targeting Our Kids – is hosting a media literacy workshop next Saturday, January 28.

The workshop by STOK, Managing Media in Daily Life, is designed for both parents and youth ages 11 and up. The workshop description states:

How does the media impact you? How about our families? Our classrooms? Our society? How do we manage rapidly changing new media and mediums such as Facebook, smart phones, 24 hour news cycles, video and online games as well as the omnipresent influence of marketing and advertising in our daily lives? How do screens affect our brains and our development? Why is it important to become media literate?

Explore these questions and more in a dynamic workshop designed for youth ages 11 and up, educators and parents. Facilitated by members of STOK (Stop Targeting Our Kids): a Grand Rapids based advocacy group focused on raising media literacy awareness and eliminating the commercialization of childhood.

January 28, 2012

10 am-12 pm

City Middle/High School

1400 Fuller Ave

Grand Rapids, MI 49505

Free to middle and high school youth.

$5 suggested donation for adult attendees.

Register in advance through GR Parks and Rec or at the door the day of the event.