In a world shaped by headlines, advertisements, and social media, navigating information in the 21st century can feel overwhelming. Every day, we are surrounded by an influx of content, from news articles and television to podcasts, video games, movies, and TikToks. And every day, we are given a choice: How do we interpret what we see? Without proper guidance, it is easy to fall susceptible to misinformation or biased content. Thus, NAMLE’s Youth Advisory Council created Your Media, Your Choice: Media Literacy Basics, a campaign designed to help fellow students understand the media they consume and feel confident making informed decisions as critical thinkers.

About the Campaign

Your Media, Your Choice: Media Literacy Basics is a student-created initiative by NAMLE’s Youth Advisory Council that breaks down essential media literacy skills in a way that’s accessible and relatable for young people. Focused on the basics—like evaluating sources, questioning credibility, and reflecting on emotional responses—it encourages students to think critically about the media around them. Designed by students, for students, the campaign also promotes advocacy through tools like videos and petitions, empowering youth to push for media literacy education in schools and make their voices heard.

Media Literacy Activities and Resources

Over the course of four videos, you will explore what media literacy is and why it matters in everyday life. You will build skills in defining, applying, and fact-checking information through real-world examples. One video also includes an interactive, quiz-style format where you can test your understanding as you go. Together, the series helps you understand how to navigate media more critically and use these skills to support others in the digital world.

Media Literacy Quiz and Practice Activity

This interactive activity is an opportunity to test your own digital literacy skills through a colorful and real-world example-filled quiz. You can share this with your students, peers, or friends and test out how much digital literacy you actually know and what topics you may want to brush up on. Through this quiz, you will learn about various different topics like AI, digital literacy, social media, and more. With thorough explanations, you will also learn as you quiz yourself by fully understanding each issue and why it’s important.

Peer-to-Peer Learning Experience

The campaign also includes an interactive, peer-to-peer learning experience that can be used in classrooms, workshops, and youth events, including at the upcoming 2026 Amplify Youth Summit. Learning with and from peers can make media literacy feel more relevant, relatable, and easier to apply in everyday life.

This experience builds on the campaign materials, including the videos and interactive quiz, and adds discussion, breakout activities, and shared reflection. Participants explore core media literacy skills like access, analyze, evaluate, create, and act. A one-pager fact sheet is also available to download, making it easy to use these concepts in other classrooms and community settings.

Take Action on Media Literacy Education

One last thing. While this campaign is led by students for students, we welcome educators, administrators, higher education leaders, and community members who believe media literacy education matters.

We are asking people to sign a petition to show that there is strong demand for media literacy education in schools. Your voice helps demonstrate to schools and policymakers that students and adults care about learning these skills and want to see them taught more widely.

If you believe media literacy should be part of every student’s education, take a minute to make your voice heard.

Sign the petition. Share it. Start conversations.

Because media literacy isn’t just a skill, it’s how we make sense of the world. And every student deserves access to it.

Youth Council Member Contributions

Content: Anxhelika, Evalyn, Maggie, and Sophie
Practice: Anshi, Lucia, and Sadie
Experience: Eashan and Katie
Advocacy: Flora and Pranav