It is imperative that the 21st century population develops media literacy competence at several levels. Schools possess a crucial role in achieving these competencies and as such, teachers need to be equipped with effective methods and training. "Promoting Global Competencies Through Media Literacy" is an advanced reference publication featuring the latest scholarly research on transdisciplinary and transformative assessment practices from primary-level to university-level educational settings. Including coverage on a broad range of topics such as digital storytelling, virtual environment, and cross-cultural communication, this book is ideally designed for academicians, researchers, and librarians seeking current research on current trends in media literacy in educational settings. This book contains the following chapters: (1) Assessing Media Literacy in Teacher Education (Vitor Tomé); (2) Technology Access Gap for Postsecondary Education: A Statewide Case Study (Victoria Brown); (3) New Media and Learning: Innovative Learning Technologies (Mustafa Serkan Abdusselam and Ebru Turan Guntepe); (4) Developing and Assessing Media Literacy Through Digital Storytelling (Bulent Dogan and Kadir Almus); (5) Gaming Literacies and Learning (Hui-Yin Hsu and Shiang-Kwei Wang); (6) Digital Media and Social Network in the Training of Pre-Service Teachers (Tami Seifert); (7) Assessing Multilingual Multicultural Teachers' Communication Styles (Sevinj Iskandarova and Oris T. Griffin); (8) Learning Content Creation in the Field: Reflections on Multimedia Literacy in Global Context (Sujatha Sosale); (9) The Shluvim Social-Professional Network: A Bridge for Educational Challenges and Trailblazers in Education (Smadar Bar-Tal and Tami Seifert); (10) Promoting Global Competencies in India: Media and Information Literacy as Stepping Stone (Aakanksha Rajeev Sharma); (11) The Psychological Effects of Violence-Related Information From the Media (Lala Jabbarova); (12) Learning to Unlearn: Using Taoism and Critical Pedagogy in Language Education to Foster Global Unity (Matthew E. Lewerenz); (13) Teaching Undergraduate Finance via a Digital Literacy Platform (Flory A. Dieck-Assad); (14) A Trans*+ Media Literacy Framework for Navigating the Dynamically Shifting Terrain of Gender in Media: Considering Assessment of Key Competencies (Steven S. Funk); (15) Teaching Digital and Media Literacy as Cross-Cultural Communication (Mary Catherine Boehmer); and (16) A Counterpoint on American Education and Media: One Fulbright Scholar's Quest to Prepare Students for Travel to America (Shahla Naghiyeva).