A new report from Renee Hobbs, professor and director of the Media Education Lab at Temple, calls digital and media literacy an "essential life skill," and outlines a plan for educating kids and adults, including incorporating local and national news media into education programs and getting entertainment companies to work online ethics storylines into their programming. The public needs these skills now to be able to make informed decisions about health, politics, work and leisure time, all of which are increasingly being conducted in the digital space, and interactively, said the report.