Spring 2027

Media Literacy and Misinformation in Education

Examines claims in education stories, forms of bias, and how the changing media landscape impacts what stories are told, who tells them, and their effect on education policy and practice.

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Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Matthew Wolfgram3.8/5

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.39 GPA, 78.6% A/AB (n=14 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.86 GPA, 93.1% A/AB (n=29 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.37 GPA, 74.1% A/AB (n=27 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Compare the concepts of individual, structural, and institutional bias and how these biases shape and have shaped stories in media and scholarship on the topic of education

  • Analyze texts related to education for message, audience, and intention

  • Compare how data and truth are presented in education stories and how information about education is deployed in media

  • Relate digital citizenship and information literacy to the practice of democracy as it pertains to education

  • Demonstrate improved summarizing, synthesizing, and analytical skills in academic speaking and writing across a range of writing genres

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EDPOL 134

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2026: 3.37 GPA, 74.1% A/AB (n=27 letter grades).

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

MATTHEW WOLFGRAM is recorded teaching in Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

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Spring 2027

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Student experience

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.39 GPA, 78.6% A/AB (n=14 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.86 GPA, 93.1% A/AB (n=29 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.37 GPA, 74.1% A/AB (n=27 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Forms of bias in education stories.
  • Media landscape impacts on storytelling and education policy.
  • Digital citizenship and information literacy in relation to democracy.

Skills

  • Comparing individual, structural, and institutional bias in education media and scholarship.
  • Analyzing education-related texts for message, audience, and intention.
  • Comparing presentations of data and truth in education stories and media deployment.
  • Relating digital citizenship and information literacy to democratic practice in education.
  • Summarizing, synthesizing, and analyzing through academic speaking and writing across genres.

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EDPOL 134 · Spring 2027

Media Literacy and Misinformation in Education

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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