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Essential Media Literacy Skills
2024-08-12 18:00:00 2024-08-12 19:00:00 America/Chicago Essential Media Literacy Skills Niles-Maine District Library - Makerspace Classroom

Monday, August 12
6:00pm - 7:00pm

Add to Calendar 2024-08-12 18:00:00 2024-08-12 19:00:00 America/Chicago Essential Media Literacy Skills Niles-Maine District Library - Makerspace Classroom

Niles-Maine District Library

Makerspace Classroom

As new capabilities are quickly being developed for creating media, it has never been more important to be able to use media literacy tools in determining fact from fiction.

Niles-Maine District Library
books@nileslibrary.org
Phone: 847-663-1234
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Fri, Nov 13 9:00AM to 7:00PM
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