TEACHERS TALK MEDIA LITERACY. papers, I teach a Parenting and Child Development class. This class has a very wellwritten curriculum that includes many media literacy activities, although http://www.ci.appstate.edu/programs/edmedia/medialit/teachers2.html
Extractions: The View from 3850: Literacy, Technology and Instruction This is a required course in the Core Curriculum of RCOE. It operates on the premise that knowledge is socially constructed. Students are expected to examine what it means to be literate at the end of the 20th century, this includes not simply an understanding of computer literacy and media literacy, but an introduction to Amish Literacy . Students frequently have the opportunity through distance education hookups, to converse with Andrea Fishman, author of Amish Literacy Dr. David Considine Telemedium: The Journal of Media Literacy. Here then, in their own words, are some of the ways that they respond to and reflect upon what is typically their first introduction to media literacy.
Facilitating Media Literacy Learning Kru, Seeing and believing how to teach media literacy in the a practical approachto basic media literacy theory and study guides and readyto-use activities. http://www.londonpubliclibrary.ca/info_by_subj/info_by_subject.php?subject_uid=1
Media Literacy 101 can experience exciting new ways to learn and teach using the Participate in a varietyof classroom activities for teaching media literacy skills in grades http://www.21stcenturyschools.com/Media_Literacy_101.htm
Extractions: Super Early Bird Discount Designing the 21st Century Classroom 21st Century Schools Bibliography ... Workshops 21st Century Schools presents . . . Read about this workshop below. Also see these links: Schedule - Dates and Locations and Register Students today live, learn and play in a media-saturated society, in a world of infotainment and spectacle. For many students the curriculum is not relevant, and they become disengaged from learning. Rapid developments in technology have brought many exciting changes to life in the new millennium, presenting new challenges for schools. Multiple new literacies are required to navigate the forest of signs and symbols of our globalized media culture. ( Douglas Kellner, UCLA
Welcome To Western Hills Library Media Center media literacy. Their site Arthur s Guide to media literacy lists showsand activities that can teach media literacy. KQED the public http://webmail.ops.org/~tetenga/medialiteracy
Masters In Mass Communications teach with and about film and television Integrating media literacy conceptsinto Improving reading comprehension by using media literacy activities. http://www.siue.edu/MASSCOMM/grad/media_lit/read_list.html
Extractions: Domine, Vanessa (1999). What is media literacy? Media literacy and media project. Retrieved November 7, 2001, http://kidsplay.org/whatismedialiter.html. Harris, P. (2001, November). The reel deal. The Council Chronicle, The National Council of Teachers of English, Vol. II, No. 2. Hobbs, R. (1996). The seven great debates in the media literacy movement. From opening keynote address for the 1996 National Media Literacy Conference, Los Angeles, CA. Retrieved October 15, 2001, from http://www.medialit.org. Hobbs, R. (1998). Teach with and about film and television: Integrating media literacy concepts into management education. Journal of Management Development, Spring, 1998. Retrieved October 29, 2001, from http://www.interact.uoregon.edu/MediaLit/FA/mlhobbs/hbindex.html. Hobbs, R. (2001). Improving reading comprehension by using media literacy activities. Voices from the middle, The National Council of Teachers of English, 44-50.
EDUCATIONAL SOFTWARE: New Products Students are introduced to media literacy by creating a reallife applications byusing the media Studio or Fifteen activities teach students how to form words http://www.gamco.com/newproducts.htm
Extractions: This new version of Reading Links includes all-new grade-appropriate content, great new graphics, and eleven correlated speaking, reading, and writing activities. This series is designed to help students build skills from basic word recognition to fluency to comprehension. Click here for more info. These effective programs teach reading, research, and language skills with an emphasis on usage and mechanics. Students work through targeted tutorials followed by motivating practice embedded in a variety of themes. Dozens of integrated skills are taught throughout the Library and Recreation Rooms. Click here for more info.
We Need Media Literacy Classes In School it should start early, with simple activities in preschool Monica, Calif.based Centerfor media literacy, which provides and how teachers should teach and in http://www.med.sc.edu:1081/latimesarticle.htm
Extractions: (published Nov.29, 2003) We are, all of us, awash in media. Television. Movies. The Internet. Billboards. Newspapers. Magazines. Radio. Newsletters. Individually and collectively, we spend more time with more media than ever before - an average of 10.5 hours a day, about 25 percent of that time using two media simultaneously, according to a recent study of "Middletown, USA" by the University of South Carolina. Children in particular have become media-obsessed. Another recent study, this one by the Kaiser Family Foundation, found that 68 percent of kids 2 and younger spend an average of two hours a day in front of a screen, either television or computer. Children under 6 spend as much time in front of a screen as they do playing outside - and three times as much as they spend reading or being read to. Those numbers don't decline as the children grow older. Douglas Rushkoff, a professor of media culture at New York University, has coined the term "screen-agers" to convey the depth of this inundation. Moreover, yet another study - the 2003 Roper Youth Report - shows that kids ages 8 to 17 have 10 percent more say now than they did a year ago in their families' media purchases: magazines, newspapers, music, DVDs.
BarbInq TV programming, using humor to teach critical thinking media Alert, 200 activitiesto Create media A media literacy specialist, Summers has created activities http://www.indiana.edu/~w505b/BarbInq.html
Extractions: Resources My inquiry centered around a concern for the impact of media on students. My questions are: What is the concept of media literacy and where is it taught? Why is media literacy important and is it important to our students? Why do students need to be media literate? Is media literacy interdisciplinary? Should I become a media educator? and allow them to explore and ask their own questions about the mass media and how it affects them. One reason that I am so interested in media literacy is because I see it as a concept which in its best questioning mode, media literacy is active and participatory and encourages students to take more initiative for their own learning. It is collaborableive learning and aims to offsets not only critical intelligence, but critical autonomy and understanding of the media. Producing videos, advertisements and other media messages are all part of media literacy.
Media Literacy - Communication - Themepark CNN Ask An Expert Why teach media literacy? shtm PBS teacherSource offers a varietyof media literacy lesson plans and activities to integrate into the http://www.uen.org/themepark/html/communication/media.html
Extractions: Media Literacy In the modern world, much of who we are and what we think depends on the various media messages we receive. These carefully crafted messages have a documented impact on our perceptions and behaviors. As we learn more about the techniques of media manipulation, we can be certain to make responsible decisions as consumers and citizens. Learning more about the media and how it affects us requires that we become more media literate. Media literacy is concerned with helping individuals develop an informed and critical understanding of the nature of mass media, the techniques used by media outlets, and the impact of these techniques. Developing media literacy can be likened to the scene in The Wizard of Oz when Toto pulls back the curtain to reveal the small, lever-pulling man behind the image of the mystical wizard. This is the point where Dorothy and her crew come to realize that the wizard is a carefully constructed fiction rather than some omnipotent force. Like Toto, we too need to learn how to "pull back the curtains" to reveal the truth behind the countless media messages that we are exposed to on a daily, even hourly basis. By going beyond the surface of such messages, we begin to understand the implicit as well as explicit ideas that are conveyed. Such scrutiny enables us to become active processors rather than passive receptors of the glut of messages in our daily media diet. This critical awareness will better prepare us to deal with the complex issues facing modern society.
Comprehensive Literacy Components And The Internet Grades K-3 Building media literacy Evaluating Web Sites K3 Students Model strategies inlarge and small group activities; teach children how to form guiding questions http://www.lite.iwarp.com/complit3.html
Extractions: Designing a webpage Using Search Engines to Locate Literacy Resources Search Engines for Teachers We'll be exploring five search engines I've found to be useful for teachers. Google is an impressive search engine that locates relevant articles quickly with very little clutter on its page. It features an automated method that ranks web pages according to their popularity and number of times they are linked to other similar pages. It's "I'm feeling lucky" button runs your search and then takes you straight to the web page of the number one hit. http://www.google.com Dogpile This meta-search engine searches 15 popular search engines (e.g. Alta Vista, Yahoo) at the same time and reports results with top 10 from each search engine. You can continue using just one search engine or can customize your search to include only some search engines or customize the order the results are reported to you. http://www.dogpile.com FindArticles Search through an archive of published articles dating back to 1988 from more than 300 magazines and journals. This is great for locating research articles about literacy topics. http://www.findarticles.com
ACME Summit 2004: Declarations Of Media Independence plenaries (3 to choose from) 330530 teach-ins, workshops Project full of lessonplans, video clips, and media literacy classroom activities and a http://www.acmecoalition.org/summitinfo.html
Extractions: We hope you will join us for this unique gathering of educators, researchers, students, activists, independent media producers, health professionals and others as we delcare our media independence! Sign up to attend the full conference, join us for just one day, or promote your organization at our exhibitor hall. Registration costs are listed below media literacy education, independent media, and media reform Our Goal: Education and grassroots coalition building are cornerstones within the media literacy movement and they provide the foundation for media independence. Therefore, the ACME 2004 Summit, "Declarations of Media Independence" will be dedicated to solution-oriented teach-ins, workshops, papers, and panels that will transform theory into practice and reform issues into action. Our goal is to bring together individuals working in the area of reform, education, research, and independent media production to interact with each other and to see the commonality of their work. We want to give people the tools to create change via education, outreach, policy reform, and the creation of independent media. In effect, we want to build a strong coalition and facilitate interdisciplinary collaboration.
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Extractions: MEDIA LITERACY MONDAYS: Our * free * monthly curricula, lesson plans, and classroom activities will be archived here. Make sure to check back the first Monday of every month (thereabouts!) for the next in our series of free media-literacy curricula: March 2004: Thousands of classes and more than 4700 students participated in the online Women's History Month poll, which asked young people to weigh in about images and stories about women in media. Click here for full classroom activity downloads and our positive females video list.
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Extractions: Creating Competent Communicators introduces the K-12 teacher to communications studies in general and to teaching each of four components of the National Communication Associations (NCA) standards in particular: (1) fundamentals of communication, (2) speaking, (3) listening, and (4) media literacy. The authors provide background information on each component as well as teaching activities for grades 7 to 12 that cross curricular boundaries. The book addresses two practical problems that teachers face in attempting to teach communication and media literacy across the curriculum: one, a paucity of useful teaching resources related to the NCA standards, and two, a lack of specific training in communication education. The authors pose and answer the question, Why teach communication? A rationale for communication education is based on the value of speaking, listening and media literacy skills for personal and academic success in life. An argument is made for the relevance of oral communication competence for students social adjustment and participation in satisfying interpersonal relationships. The authors draw upon psychological and educational research to demonstrate the relationship between communication competence and self-actualization, professional success and successful living in todays media saturated world. Operational definitions of speaking, listening and media literacy help the reader to move beyond a conventional understanding of communication and literacy as merely reading and writing. A new understanding of oral communication frames an approach to instruction that emphasizes communication standards and competencies which cut across oral activities and communication contexts.
A Report Of The National Leadership Conference On Media Literacy And there are a variety of sites to teach and practice media using evaluation methodsthat do justice to the processes implicit in media literacy activities;; http://interact.uoregon.edu/MediaLit/mlr/readings/articles/aspen.html
Extractions: Source: Strategies For Media Literacy Media literacy, the movement to expand notions of literacy to include the powerful post-print media that dominate our informational landscape, helps people understand, produce and negotiate meanings in a culture made up of powerful images, words and sounds. I. Definition A media literate person- and everyone should have the opportunity to become one- can access, analyze, evaluate, and produce both print and electronic media. The fundamental objective of media literacy is critical autonomy relationship to all media. Emphases in media literacy training range widely, including informed citizenship, aesthetic appreciation and expression, social advocacy, self-esteem, and consumer competence. The range of emphases will expand with the growth of media literacy. Just as there are a variety of emphases within the media literacy movement, there are different strategies and processes to achieve them. Some educators may focus their energies on analysis perhaps studying the creation and reception of a television program like The Cosby Show, and thus its significance for a mulicultural but racially divided society. Others may emphasize acquiring production skillsfor instance, the ability to produce a radio or television documentary or an interactive display on one's own neighborhood. Some may use media literacy as a vehicle to understand the economic infrastructure of mass media, as a key element in the social construction of public knowledge. Others may use it primarily as a method to study and express the unique aesthetic properties of a particular medium.
Extractions: Media Literacy Online Project - College of Education - University of Oregon - Eugene Media Alert! 200 Activities and Understanding Media: Create Media-Savvy Kids Author: Alla Blanca Note: I am reviewing two products at once because I feel like they each have strengths and weaknesses that complement each other. I would feel comfortable using these products together to teach media literacy. Media Alert! is a thin volume that is easy to access and read. Although it is subtitled "200 activities", I would caution that it is more like 50 concepts, with 4 activity clusters per concept, divided into age groups: preschool-1st; elementary; middle school; high school. The concepts deal with a wide variety of media literacy topics, and can be used in any order, to cover as much or as little as you want. The book is written simply, and is designed to be used by any adult with an audience of children: parents and teachers, but also scout leaders, ministers, youth group counselors, etc. I appreciate a resource that reaches beyond the standard medial lit. crowd to encompass a wider audience. The topics are easy to pick out by title alone, enabling you to quickly find just the topic you want. Within each topic and age grouping, there are several activities and discussion items, which could be covered in as little as one hour, or extended into a week-long lesson plan. Media Alert! has strengths in simplicity, flexibility and ease of use. Its drawbacks are in the depth of information available. Being designed for a mass audience, it doesn't offer much in content, just the ideas to get started. However, if you're looking for quick ideas in a highly accessible form, you can't go wrong starting your search with Media Alert!
Media Literacy In A Post 9/11 World To teach students to can be used to facilitate any concluding assignment(s) or activity(ies toclass to speak with students about their work and media literacy. http://www.hrusa.org/september/activities/medialiteracya.htm
Extractions: Media Literacy in a Post 9/11 World In today's information age, the media that has become the dominant force in shaping our view of reality and our understanding of the way the world works. As educators in this era, we have a professional responsibility to teach our students how best to access and evaluate the vast spectrum of information, in the variety of forms and structures, which they have available to them. The aim of this lesson is to have students study the atrocities of September 11, 2001, and its aftermath while building media literacy skills. It offers educators a student-centered teaching model to explore the multiplicity of issues surrounding these tragic events and the way the world has changed as a result. Students will explore multiple sources of media and varying points of view- ranging from the local to the global and the global to the local. This lesson is designed to be self-directed for the teacher and/or student. Both the topic related to September 11 and its aftermath and the sources of media to study the topic are open to the discretion of the educator and can be tailored to meet larger curricular objectives and student interests. The media should be selected both to demonstrate the diversity of information sources and varying points of view that exist on the topic of study.
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ReadWriteThink: Lesson Plan Television literacy affirms the need to teach children how to read and interprettelevision messages 2. Print PBS media literacy activities ideas. http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=97
