A Story Worth Reading: Learning About Flash Mobs and Digital and Media Literacy — from spotlight.macfound.org

Renee Hobbs, founder of the Media Education Lab at Temple University in Philadelphia, has a fascinating story to tell about the power of media literacy, but she needs your help to tell it.

Using the website Spot.Us – a non-profit, open-source project through which “the public can commission and participate with journalists to do reporting on important and perhaps overlooked topics” – Hobbs pitched a 1,500-word story on a unique approach to teaching digital literacy with younger students.

spot.us -- a very interesting model/exchange