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Media literacy, tested against real feeds.
Digital Literacies and 21st Century Skills turns course readings into relaxed seminar-style conversations about social media, learning, misinformation, and online communities. The episodes are informal but purposeful, using TikTok, Instagram, AI videos, classroom examples, and personal habits to test big ideas against real digital behavior.
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Digital Literacies and 21st Century Skills is a course-based education podcast about learning, identity, trust, and communication in networked life. The format is simple: a rotating set of speakers takes up a course topic, brings in a reading or framework, and then tests it against familiar online spaces. That gives the show its texture. It can move from disinformation theory to a faculty-room rumor, from multimodality to image curation, or from virtual communities to TikTok life coaches without treating those examples as trivial. The conversations are casual, sometimes repetitive, and often more interested in weighing tradeoffs than winning an argument. That works for the subject. Social media is rarely framed as purely helpful or purely harmful. Instagram can inspire, TikTok can teach, Pinterest can support a creative habit, and online communities can help people find language for a life they had not seen modeled nearby. Then the other side arrives. Algorithms shorten attention, influencer advice can blur into salesmanship, public learning can intensify anxiety, and AI-generated media can make even skeptical viewers pause. The show keeps returning to that middle ground. Digital networks expand access, but they do not replace human connection. Visual media can make learning richer, but students still need to ask who made an image, what choices shaped it, and what it wants them to believe. Community can be powerful, but shared enthusiasm can become uncritical following. The strongest episodes sound like students learning out loud, connecting theory to the online habits of children, teens, teachers, families, and themselves. It is not a headline-driven tech podcast. It is more like an open classroom archive, useful for listeners who care about media literacy as something practiced in everyday scrolling, teaching, checking, sharing, and slowing down.
Made for: Best for educators, education students, and curious media-literacy listeners who want classroom concepts connected to actual online habits. It also fits anyone thinking about how students learn, socialize, and judge information through platforms.
What sets it apart: The show stands apart by keeping the discussion close to lived experience: phone limits, TikTok communities, AI videos, classroom rumors, and visual literacy choices. Its rotating format makes the ideas feel provisional, collaborative, and grounded.
Podcast for the Digital Literacies and 21st Century Skills course at Adelphi University's Educational Technology program.
Based on 4 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Student-led conversations connect digital learning theory to classroom choices, online communities, source credibility, access, and the everyday pressures of social media.
Digital Literacies and 21st Century Skills turns course readings into small-group conversations about how online life changes learning, community, and classroom practice.
Sonic becomes a writing prompt; TikTok life coaches get a credibility check. Your classroom may thank you.
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A thoughtful classroom conversation about what social media adds to learning and what it quietly costs.
The conversation lands in a familiar place at first, then moves into the harder question of what learning looks like when school, work, and scrolling all blur together.
A sharp case for teaching students to read, make, and question the images around them.
The episode treats multimodality as part of teaching itself, not a side topic, as Mike and Aaron move from the old reading-writing-listening-speaking frame toward how communication works now.
A classroom-style look at TikTok communities, source checking, and the limits of taking advice at face value.
Exploring TikTok as a Virtual Community treats the app as a place where people gather, trade advice, and build habits together. The discussion moves from Malik and Hadar's community-of-practice frame to connected learning, then lands on everyday TikTok behavior: K-pop fandoms,…
A chatty, useful look at how online groups become real communities.
Emily and Ryan treat virtual communities as a broad, lived-in idea, stretching from Facebook and Reddit to Wikipedia, comment sections, and Stan Twitter.
A student-centered look at how everyday interests can build belonging, trust, and engagement in the classroom.
Three future educators treat connected learning as something built in the room, not just talked about. They ground it in student interests and community, with examples like Fortnite bonding, a reading interest, Sonic, felt letters, and the teacher moves that turn those details…
Classroom practice, school change, and AI with purpose.
Business stories with practical connective tissue.
Edtech talk with classroom sense and snacks.
Free classroom tech, tested by a teacher.
Classroom tech, explained teacher to teacher.
Campus AV talk from the people maintaining it.
Catherine and Nicole start by asking how much social media affects learning.
This episode discusses the differences between misinformation and disinformation, using the Trump administration's claim about the Iranian nuclear threat as a case study.
Two friends discuss their personal experiences with social media, focusing on its effects on mental health, social life, and children/teens, including strategies for healthy usage.
Crystal and Raania discuss virtual communities, sharing personal experiences with positive online groups focused on holistic living, veganism, and alternative parenting.
Two co-hosts discuss the effects of social media on mental health and its rise among younger generations, focusing on platforms like TikTok and Instagram.
The hosts discuss disinformation through a personal anecdote about a teacher spreading a false story about litter boxes in schools, highlighting the importance of fact-checking and the challenges posed by AI-generated content.
Mike opens the show by bringing Aaron in for a conversation about multimodality.
Alyssa, Giovanna, and Kumari kick off by asking what a virtual community on TikTok actually looks like.
Emily and Ryan start by defining virtual communities in plain language.
Two grad students discuss the challenges of disinformation in today's digital age, focusing on its impact in education and society, particularly during election years.
Caroline and Sareem discuss the concept of remixing throughout history, focusing on how AI is a modern tool for remixing and comparing current reactions to AI-generated art with past controversies like hip-hop sampling.
Tonyann, Kayla, and Sam open by asking whether they had heard of connected learning before this class, and they quickly settle into what the idea means for teaching.
Two graduate students discuss whether social media is addictive, exploring personal experiences and societal impacts.