This essay reviews the progress achieved in media literacy education over the past decade and emphasizes the importance of assessment, interdisciplinarity in furthering developing the field. The author says that it's nearly impossible to predict what may be possible for the future of the field over the next 10 years. In another publication, she has offered up a plan of action for steps to bring digital and media literacy education to all Americans (Hobbs 2010). But here she offers an informal "wish list" to identify those research issues that she hopes will be more or less sorted out by the time that 2021 rolls around. Each of these challenges will require careful, sustained examination by scholars and practitioners, but she is confident that in 10 years, a substantive base of theory and evidence will shed light on these issues and inform the work of practitioners in a variety of settings, especially in the context of K-12 and higher education.