Media Literacy Educator Certification

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Need to develop your skills first?

KQED Teach and PBS TeacherLine offer free online courses that help you
build necessary skills in preparation for completing micro-credentials.

Finding & Evaluating Information

Making Infographics

Audio Essentials: Basics of Recording

Certification

PBS Certified Media Literacy Educators have demonstrated mastery with

evaluating, creating, and sharing media effectively to support their own learning
designing and implementing instruction and assessing student learning of these same skills

Once certified, you'll receive a letter of recognition from PBS to share with your school and district leaders.

Certification is free. (See FAQ.)

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Earn eight media literacy micro-credentials and automatically
become a PBS Certified Media Literacy Educator.

How it works

1. Complete micro-credentials to showcase your media literacy teaching abilities.

2. Earn 8 micro-credentials and become a PBS Certified Media Literacy Educator.

3. Share your certification with school & district leaders with a letter of recognition from PBS.

Demonstrate your expertise in teaching PreK-12 students to think critically about their roles as media consumers and creators -- or in training teachers to do so.

Competency-based validation of media literacy skills for educators of all kinds.
PBS and KQED offer media literacy micro-credentials for free via the Digital Promise platform. Teachers, ToSAs, coaches, and librarians are all encouraged to apply. (See FAQ.)

Micro-credentials

Choose a micro-credential from the list below and log in to the Digital Promise platform.
Submit artifacts and reflections, as required for each micro-credential. Submissions will be reviewed and approved within 2 weeks.
Share your micro-credential badges with your peers and professional network.
Earn 8 micro-credentials and automatically become a PBS Certified Media Literacy Educator.

Evaluating Online Information

Critically Analyzing Media

Creating a Code of Conduct

Evaluating Online Tools for Classroom Use

Making Media for Classroom Use: Images, Graphics & Interactives

Making Media for Classroom Use:
Audio & Video

Implementing Media Projects
in Early Childhood *

Implementing Media Projects
in the Upper Grades *

Assessing Student Media

* For Certification choose one: Early Childhood or Upper Grades

PBS Media Literacy Educator Certification by KQED micro-credentials received a 2019 Award of Excellence from Tech & Learning magazine.