Media Literacy Activities media literacy activities. News Challenge. The The last quiz for the Channel One News Challenge was given on Friday, March 10, 2000. The deadline for teachers to return their Class Report Form is March 31, 2000. to support, train and assist all educators who teach broadcast journalism. http://www.teachworld.com/tw_pages/media_lit_activities.html
Extractions: The The last quiz for the Channel One News Challenge was given on Friday, March 10, 2000. The deadline for teachers to return their Class Report Form is March 31, 2000 . Please fax Class Report Forms to Noreen at (212)508-6803 or mail directly to: Channel One News Challenge P.O. Box 5058 FDR Station New York, NY 10150 Students from Channel One schools should submit their audition tapes for the following positions: Executive Producer, Writer, Producer, Anchor, Graphic Director, Music Director, Line Producer, Web Designer, Web Editor, Set and Lighting Director and Camera Person. Students who are selected are flown to Los Angeles a week before production for a week of orientation before Student Produced Week begins.
Instructional Materials In Media Literacy/Studies No prior knowledge of graphic design is necessary to teach this unit Note The sites listed above all have lesson plans/activities for the media Studies/literacy classroom teacher http://www.cln.org/subjects/media_inst.html
Extractions: Instructional Materials in Media Literacy/Studies Below are the CLN "Theme Pages" which focus on specific topics within Media Literacy/Studies. CLN's theme pages are collections of useful Internet educational resources within a narrow curricular topic and contain links to two types of information. Students and teachers will find curricular resources (information, content...) to help them learn about this topic. In addition, there are links to instructional materials (lesson plans) which will help teachers provide instruction in this theme. General Media Literacy/Studies Resources Here are a number of links to other Internet resources which contain information and/or other links related to Media Literacy/Studies. Please read our Case Studies Index Over 30 case studies in Media Management and Sales from the School of Journalism at the University of Missouri. Many of the issues that these address would be suitable for high school students. Critical Thinking and Alternative Viewpoints Page This grade 4/5 unit plan from a University of Victoria education student challenges students to understand viewpoints that are different than what the media and society tell us are true. Seven lessons help them to learn focus on searching for the truth using multi media such as the Internet. Warning: This is a Geocities site which means that you'll get intrusive and annoying advertising every time you load a page.
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Extractions: Dawn Formo Write for TWI . . . The Writing Instructor is a blind, peer-reviewed journal, publishing in print since 1981 and on the Internet since June, 2001. Its distinguished editorial board consists of over 150 scholars-teachers-writers representing over 75 universities, community colleges, and K-12 schools. For more information about acceptance rates, the peer-review process, guidelines for review committees, and the editorial board, please read our Editorial FAQs or write us. More Than What the Hogwarts Academy Expected: Using the Magic of Harry Potter to Teach Media Literacy in Grades 6-12 The standard approach to instilling media literacy in children or teenage consumers is to inoculate them. Inoculation simply refers to the repeated exposure of audience's attitudes to various messages and claims with the purpose of making media claims less effective. However, inoculation is generally an unsophisticated approach to developing media literacy. Media outlets spend millions on psychographic and demographic information to subvert most inoculation techniques, and advertisers and programmers use inoculation to sway consumers and viewers toward specific products. So the activities educators would most likely line up to combat media messages more than likely pale in comparison to what skilled corporate manipulators do on a daily basis.
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Extractions: Why Teach Media Literacy? By Rick Shepherd Before we start, let's be clear about what we mean by media literacy. Media literacy is an informed, critical understanding of the mass media. It involves an examination of the techniques, technologies and institutions that are involved in media production, the ability to critically analyze media messages, and a recognition of the roles that audiences play in making meaning from those messages. Media literacy is taught through linked analytic and production activities. As with traditional literacies, "reading" and "writing" are learned together. Although many of us think about television when we consider the media, media literacy takes as its field all mediaTV, radio, film, print, rock music, the Internet and even less obvious forms like fashion, children's toys and dolls, or T-shirts. We study the media because it is through the media that our culture expresses itself and communicates with itself. Certainly one could argue that much that we see or hear or read in the media is trivial, but I cannot bring myself to believe that human beings themselves or their interests are trivial. Take, for example, a baseball game on television. A baseball game may or may not be trivial in itself, but more than 40,000 people watched the game in person and several million more saw it on television or listened to it on the radio. That's not trivial. What does the popularity of this game mean? What messages does the audience take from it? What values are built into it?
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Extractions: Helping Kids Become Wise Consumers of Information Adults increasingly are finding that they need to teach the important skills of analyzing messages and information for validity and bias. Analyzing and assessing sources is an essential part of all inquiry-based learning projects , but our multimedia world means that we have to teach kids not just how to assess data and arguments, but also how to discern emotional appeals made through pictures, music and video. This important topic is too big to thoroughly cover here, but we can give you a few pointers and resources for further explanation: When we teach how to do photography , we're also teaching kids to really look at the images they see. They come to understand the emotional effects inherent in a photographer's choices about angle, focus and other aesthetic elements.
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Extractions: Online Only Price: $17.55 Table of contents Sample chapters People who bought this also bought... EMAIL this page to a friend Foreword by Alan Teasley Whether it's television, film, print, or the Internet, our world is saturated with visual images. That flow has become so persistent, so insistent, we can no longer dismiss its impact on our students' perceptions. We need to make media literacy a vital component of language arts education and equip our students to analyze and respond critically to media texts. was written to assist you with that process.
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Teaching Media Literacy In The ESL Classroom The Center for media literacy provides you with a wide selection of teaching tools, carefully evaluated for their quality and importance to the field. examples of some media literacy inspired activities. But first, let's trace media activities for the classroom. Whether instructors choose to teach media literacy explicitly will http://www.medialit.org/reading_room/article536.html
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Media Literacy could be used to support these types of activities? media literacy Resources. Manyexcellent materials are available online to help you teach media literacy. http://eduscapes.com/seeds/literacy.html
Extractions: Media Literacy Bring up the term "media literacy" with a group of people and a dozen different ideas come to mind. Some people will think of "film studies courses" where students analyze characters, plot, and cinematography. While others start complaining about the quality of television. Still others will recall a middle school class where they learned about advertising techniques that TV commercials use. This page focuses on media literacy. For information on the larger issue of information literacy, go to Approaches to Information and Communication Literacy at eduScapes Teacher Tap . For related information about visual literacy, read Visual Literacy by Annette Lamb at eduScapes Activate and The On-Line Visual Literacy Project from Pomona College Media Literacy Defined Media literacy is the ability to read, interpret, use, design, and create audio and video materials for specific outcomes. This includes thinking, learning, and expressing oneself using media. Since media is all around us, some people may think that everyone is naturally media literacy. Young people are typically large consumers of all types of media including Internet, television, radio, movies, and computers. Of course anyone can become a couch potato and view television and music as a passive medium. Media literate people view their interaction with media as active.
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Extractions: Why Teach Current Events? Why bother teaching current events? The research indicates that a regular dose of current events has a multitude of benefits! Included: Activity ideas and Internet resources for teaching current events! Editor's note: This story includes many activity ideas for teachers who teach "current events." If you're looking for additional ideas, be sure to check out the Education World LESSON PLANNING story, Twenty-Five Ideas for Using Current Events Across the Curriculum "All I know is what I read in newspapers." Indeed, TV news and the Internet aside, those famous words spoken by humorist Will Rogers ring truer today than ever. Rogers wouldn't recognize the newspaper of the 1990s - the variety of news it offers; the abundance of photos; the text peppered with charts, graphs, and maps. Today more than ever, the newspaper is a source for all one needs to know. And, more than ever, teachers recognize the usefulness and importance of "using the news" and of developing students who have good newsreading skills and an awareness of current events. Among the benefits students often cite, "current events" programs
Frontline/Does TV Kill? Teacher's Guide the pages which follow, FRONTLINE has developed classroom activities to help is importantfor students to understand the powerful concepts of media literacy. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/teach/tvkillguide.html
Extractions: Continuing the Discussion Does TV Kill? Aired January 10, 1995 Dear Educator: Before the age of eighteen, the average American teen will have witnessed eighteen thousand simulated murders on TV. While staggering in number, more disturbing is the effect this steady diet of imaginary violence may have on America's youth. Over the past forty years, more than three thousand studies have investigated the connection between television violence and real violence. Social scientists have attempted to measure television's effect on behavior in different ways, including laboratory studies, field experiments, and correlational studies. Though none conclude a direct cause and effect relationship, it becomes clear that watching television is one of a number of important factors affecting aggressive behavior. Today, in addition to entertaining and informing, television serves as background noise, as babysitter, as safe haven from mean streets, and as a way to avoid social interaction. But does our dependence on television stifle the development of creativity and skew the way we view ourselves and our society? To answer these critical questions, FRONTLINE correspondent Al Austin examines what is known about television violence and how it affects our lives. "Does TV Kill?" a co-production of Oregon Public Broadcasting and FRONTLINE, airing Tuesday, January 10, on PBS, reveals some unexpected conclusions about the impact of TV.
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Extractions: powered by FreeFind Online News Information Newspapers in Education - This is a very long and complete list of cross curricular activities using newspapers and online newspapers. Newspapers, Magazines, and Other Media on the Web - Organized by type of publication, here are links to tons of free publications on the Web. The Christian Science Monitor- This is the online edition of the award winning publication filled with current information. Telegraph - This is a British newspaper with focus upon Britain and Ireland. BBC Online - This newspaper offers accurate and informed news about the world scene, providing photos and video clips. Asahi.com - This Japan-based publication has a reputation for hard-nosed reporting and uses innovative technology. The Age - Here is local and world news as reported by an Australian newspaper. The St. Petersburg Times-
Grade 6 Expectations And Activities teach students the basic structure of a movie review (bring in movie reviews of moviesthey there are many activities you can do in media literacy in which http://www.angelfire.com/ms/MediaLiteracy/Grade6.html
Extractions: According to the Ontario Ministry of Education's Elementary Curriculum in Media Communication, grade 6 students will: identify questionable strategies presenters use to influence an audience identify the various types of professionals involved in producing media work and describe the jobs they do analyze and assess a media work and express a considered viewpoint about it it create a variety of media works Click here for a review and definition of Types of Media Works, Media Techniques, and Purpose of Media Works Of course, these are only ideas, meant to jump start your own concepts which you will infuse into your classroom based on the curriculum you are bringing to your six graders. The key for media literacy is not to have a media unit per se, but to use media literacy throughout the school year in language studies. find 3 - 5 advertising claims ( weasel words like " virtually spotless,"
Grade 9 Media Literacy Curriculum out specific expectations for teachers to teach media literacy within the characteristicsof different audiences and create media workss designed activities. http://www.angelfire.com/ms/MediaLiteracy/Grade9.html
Extractions: The Ontario Ministry of Education's 1999 Grade 9 Curriculum lays out specific expectations for teachers to teach media literacy within the English curriculum, both at the academic (ENG1D) and applied (ENG1P) levels. The new English curriculum consists of four strands Literature Studies and Reading Writing Language Media Studies The following excerpt is taken from the curriculum guide for English regarding Media Studies: Because of the pervasive influence in our lives of print and electronic media, it is important for students to learn how to understand and interpret media works. In the English Program, students should have frequent opportunities to analyze various aspects of media communications, including key elements of the works themselves, the audience and production codes and practices. Students should also learn about the media through the process of creating their own media works, using a range of technologies to do so. By working in the various media to communicate their own ideas, students will develop critical thinking skills and understand at first hand how media works are designed to influence audiences and reflect the perspectives of their creators. Students will also develop production skills that may open up career opportunities in the entertainment and communications industries. Students should be encouraged to appreciate the media as sources of personal information and pleasure.
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Extractions: Media literacy is the ability to understand how mass media work, how they produce meanings, how they are organized, and how to use them wisely. The media literate person can describe the role media play in his or her life. The media literate person understands the basic conventions of various media, and enjoys their use in a deliberately conscious way. The media literate person understands the impact of music and special effects in heightening the drama of a television program or film...this recognition does not lessen the enjoyment of the action, but prevents the viewer from being unduly credulous or becoming unnecessarily frightened. The media literate person is in control of his or her media experiences. The following definition of media literacy came out of the Trent Think Tank, a 1989 symposium for media educators from around the world sponsored by the Canadian Association for Media Literacy: "The goal of the media literacy curriculum must be to develop a literate person who is able to read, analyze, evaluate, and produce communications in a variety of media ( print, TV, computers, the arts, etc.)." Most often, "the media" are lumped together as a single entity. But "the media" are actually many forms of communication...including newspapers, magazines, and billboards, radio, television, videocassettes, video games, and computer games. Since the students participating in VidKids are primarily engaged in television viewing (most of them are too young to read newspapers and magazines), our activities focus on video and TV.
