Media & Learning Association

17/10/2026

AILiFE+: inclusive AI literacy for disabled people in Ireland

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♿ As AI reshapes the labour market, who risks being left behind?

✍️ Stefanie Havelka from University College Dublin presents AILiFE+, an inclusive AI Literacy and Workforce Readiness Framework designed with and for disabled people in Ireland.

💼 What does inclusive AI literacy actually look like in practice? 🤔

👉 Read the full article: https://media-and-learning.eu/ailife-an-inclusive-ai-literacy-and-workforce-readiness-framework-for-disabled-people-in-ireland/

by Stefanie Havelka, University College Dublin, Ireland. Since the public release of ChatGPT, an AI assistant by OpenAI, nearly 4 years ago, AI has been…

16/10/2026

📢 MLA4MedLit 2026 | Case Studies 1

🗓️ 23 October 2026 | ⏰ 14:00-15:30 CEST | 🖥️ Online

[Whose literacy, for whom?]
Media literacy is often designed with a default audience in mind, and everyone else is expected to adapt. In this session, we look at three communities that are routinely left out of that design.

🎤 Speakers:
• Eva Bei, University of Florence, Italy
• Zara Mommerency, Media Literacy Project Officer for news and information literacy, Mediawijs, Belgium
• Phia Damsma, Sonokids, Australia
• Carlo Schuengel, Management Team and Academic Leader, Iuliia Chaplinska, Postdoc Researcher & Sophie Mary, Postdoc Researcher, Viveon, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands

🎙️ Moderator: Amy Hassett, Co-Director and Co-Founder, Disabled Women Ireland

More information and registration 👇
https://ow.ly/WIQu50ZWOWw

16/10/2026

🎙️ 48 people in a virtual room, listening to a Kenyan podcaster explain how she gets audiences to care about climate change.

Kyle James from DW Akademie takes us inside PodCircle, a global podcasting community that teaches the craft and connects podcasters worldwide.

🌍 How does a community like this grow, and what keeps people coming back? 🎧

👉 Read the full article: https://media-and-learning.eu/pressing-record-how-dw-akademie-is-teaching-podcasting-and-building-a-community/

by Kyle James, Consultant at DW Akademie, Germany. Feature image credit: DW In a virtual meeting space, 48 people listen as Kenyan podcaster Abigael Kima…

15/10/2026

How can we use GenAI in higher education in an ethical and meaningful way?

As educators explore the opportunities that GenAI offers for teaching and learning, there is a growing need to consider issues such as responsibility, transparency, and academic integrity.

'A Hands-on Guide to Ethical AI in Higher Education' is a new free online course that combines practical examples, hands-on activities and critical reflection to help educators navigate the opportunities and challenges of AI in higher education with confidence and critical awareness.

🔗 Discover more and enroll: https://ow.ly/OwE650ZUYn5

Developed by a consortium of European partners: FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Fachhochschule Südwestfalen, the Media & Learning Association, and the University of Amsterdam.

14/10/2026

⏳ Still time to submit!
The call for submissions to the EDMO Media Literacy Guidelines is open until Friday 30 October.
Share your good practice, resource, or feedback and help shape the future of media literacy in Europe.
🔗 https://ow.ly/Ummb50ZI9KU

14/10/2026

🎓 From bootcamps to advanced multimedia services: a look inside KU Leuven’s Centre for Teaching and Learning.

Anneleen Cosemans from KU Leuven shows how the CTL supports educators across one of Europe’s largest universities.

This article is part of our “Centres for Teaching and Learning” series, sharing how CTLs across Europe are shaping teaching practice.

👉 Read the full article: https://media-and-learning.eu/ku-leuvens-ctl-offers-a-wide-range-of-services-from-bootcamps-to-advanced-multimedia-services/

by Anneleen Cosemans, KU Leuven, Belgium. This article is part of the “Centres for Teaching and Learning” series, a collection of interviews and articles…

13/10/2026

📢 MLA4MedLit 2026 | Opening Discussion
🗓️ 23 October 2026 | ⏰13:15–14:00 CEST | 🖥️Online
[Who decides what it means to be media literate?]
Across research, education and policy, people are often labelled ‘media literate’ or not, ‘vulnerable’ or ‘resilient’. But who sets those norms, and whose perspectives, education systems and cultures do they reflect?
Our opening discussion questions the assumptions behind these labels and asks what happens when one standard is applied to very different communities.
🎤 Speakers:
• Susanna Laurin, Managing Director and Chair, Funka Foundation, Sweden
• Alexander Smit, Postdoctoral Researcher, Centre for Media and Journalism Studies, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
🎙️ Moderator: David Mekkaoui, CEO, All Digital
More information and registration 👇
https://ow.ly/IQWs50ZWOFP

13/10/2026

👨‍👩‍👧Media education for young children doesn’t stop at the kindergarten door. It continues at home.

Maja Cimerman Sitar from EduSkills+ follows up on her earlier article about helping young children see that photos don’t always show reality.

This time, the focus is on parents, and what happened when her team started working with them.

👉 Read the full article: https://media-and-learning.eu/media-education-doesnt-stop-at-the-kindergarten-door-what-we-learned-from-working-with-parents/

by Maja Cimerman Sitar, EduSkills+. Last year, I wrote here about a simple activity that helps young children discover that photographs do not…

12/10/2026

IBC2026 in Amsterdam: what stood out wasn’t spectacular new technology.

Mathy Vanbuel, president of the Media & Learning Association walked the halls and came back with a different takeaway: technologies we’ve talked about for years are finally… doing something.

🎬 What does that mean for educational media and AV teams in higher education?

👉 Read his visitor’s report: https://media-and-learning.eu/ibc-amsterdam-2026-a-visitors-report/

by Mathy Vanbuel. Media and Learning Association. Walking around IBC2026 in Amsterdam, my main impression was not one of spectacular new technology. It…

11/10/2026

What do students actually think AI is, and where do those ideas come from?

Tobias Bahr from Heidelberg University explores how students build their understanding of AI through everyday tools, from social media feeds to chatbots.

Some of those conceptions are useful. Others quietly get in the way of learning.

So what do we really need to teach?

👉 Read the full article: https://media-and-learning.eu/misconceptions-about-artificial-intelligence-what-we-think-we-know-and-what-we-actually-need-to-learn/

by Tobias Bahr, Heidelberg University, Germany. Students, according to constructivism (Ben-Ari, 2001) make sense, build conceptions about AI by engaging…