Media Literacy - Communication - Themepark CNN Ask An Expert Why teach media literacy? 200 activities to CreatemediaSavvy Kids. media Alert!, 2000. Wakin, Edward. How TV Changed America s Mind http://www.uen.org/themepark/communication/media.shtml
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.
Extractions: Turn Beauty Inside Out, Maine Reflections of Girls in the Media, A two-part Study on Gender and Media (Available www.childrennow.org ) finds that from an early age girls are active participants in the media community. They watch over twenty hours of television a week, see 20,000 advertisements a year, listen to radio and CDs, watch music videos, read fashion magazines, newspapers and play video games. On one hand media, offers girls strong, positive role models when women in media are shown dependent first upon themselves to solve their own problems and achieve their goals. (34% of women and 30% of men on TV are shown using their intelligence.) At the same time, research demonstrates that media sends girls limiting messages about their priorities and potential. Appearance and relationships are stressed for women while careers are most important for men. This research suggests that media has a cumulative impact and can become one of the most powerful forces in adolescent development. Girls are bombarded with messages that they need to be prettier, thinner and sexier to be ok. This creates a toxic environment for developing young girls self-esteem and body image. Turn Beauty Inside Out helps girls and women think about what it means to be all they can be in todays culture by redefining true beauty as good hearts, great works and activism. We can help girls and women recognize the impossible media-created images of beauty and give them skills to think critically about their media diet.
Wwwtools For Teachers Rick Shepherd ( Why teach media literacy, teach Magazine Oct/Nov 1993) KQED has developed Lessons and activities to accompany programs broadcast on http://magazines.fasfind.com/wwwtools/m/2451.cfm?x=0&rid=2451
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Extractions: Back to Top Back to Top Back to Top Back to Top ... Back to Top What Is Media Literacy? Media literacy is a movement that helps children and adults cope with today's inescapable and often overwhelming media environment. Developed during the 1980s and 1990s in response to public concern about media violence and commercialism, the movement is centered in schools but also encompasses homes, religious and civic organizations and other institutions. Three goals of media literacy, as identified by the Center for Media Literacy in Los Angeles, are: Managing television and the choices involved; Looking behind media depictions at political, economic and social motivations. A variety of studies suggest that media literacy can produce less vulnerable children and adults. People who understand the motivations and production techniques of media are less likely to adopt destructive attitudes and behaviors that are depicted in the media. Why Is Media Literacy Important? Television, video games, popular music and other media are not simply harmless forms of entertainment. Media help to shape attitudes and behaviors. TV advertisers, for example, are well aware that media shape attitudes about products and services. They pay handsomely for advertising opportunities and skillfully manipulate words and images to draw attention to their products.
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Extractions: Put exact phrases in quotes Search within Results by media type: We searched for: we found: results by media type: journal articles: magazine articles: newspaper articles: encyclopedia articles: Research Topics on: Media Literacy List All Research Topics Media Literacy - 11040 results More book Results: Intermediality: The Teachers' Handbook of Critical Media Literacy Book by Ladislaus M. Semali Ann Watts Pailliotet ; Westview Press, 1999 Subjects: Critical ThinkingStudy And Teaching Media Literacy ...Teachers Handbook of Critical Media Literacy edited by Ladislaus M. Semali...Teachers Handbook of Critical Media Literacy edited by Ladislaus M. Semali...teachers handbook of critical media literacy / Ladislaus M. Semali, Ann Watts... Developing Media Literacy in Cyberspace: Pedagogy and Critical Learning for the Twenty-First-Century Classroom Book by Julie D. Frechette
For Teachers | Index Links to information about media and internet literacy, and media education for practical teaching units and classroom activities for media education? http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/teachers/index.cfm
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The Perfect Curriculum, 2 | Teaching Backgrounder Case Study North York s Elementary media literacy Pilot Project and variousactivities linking student writing with media literacy activities. http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/resources/educational/teaching_backgrounde
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YouthLearn: Learning Teaching media literacy Helping Kids Become Wise Consumers of Information Notes The media literacy activities in this site ask students to critically http://www.youthlearn.org/learning/activities/multimedia/medialit.asp
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.
YouthLearn: Learning Planning Guides Teaching Techniques activities Projects · General Info Teaching Visual Arts media literacy Drawing Teaching Drawing http://www.youthlearn.org/learning/activities/multimedia/index.asp
Extractions: Telling Stories in Words and Pictures Imagine the effect of having children organize and present their ideas to a room full of adults using animation, digital photography, vidoes, Web pages or other techniques we are used to seeing from professionals. In more ways than one, multimedia skills give kids a leg up in communicating their ideas. The multimedia lesson ideas available on YouthLearn include those that focus on building skills in: drawing, such as the lesson
CML : Best Practices A collection of useful media literacy activities and teaching plans from thepages of media Values magazine, CML s media literacy Workshop Kits, http://www.medialit.org/best_practices.html
Extractions: Media Issues / Topics - Advertising / Consumerism - Computer Literacy / Digital Revolution - Faith-Based Media Literacy - Film Study / Movie-making - Global Media Issues - Health Issues - History of Media - How to Teach Media Literacy - Media Activity Resources - Media Advocacy / Activism - Media Industry / Economics - Music / Music Videos - Production / Creating Media - Student Made Media - TV and Popular Culture - Violence in the Media - Visual Literacy Curriculum / Subject Area - Art / Media Arts - English / Language Arts - Ethics / Character Education - Health / Prevention - Life Skills - Science / Math - Social Studies - Spirituality / Religion "When the question: 'What's new?' is pursued at the expense of all other questions, what follows in its wake is often an endless flood of trivia and fashion. I wish to be concerned with the question: 'What is best?' for this question cuts deeply, rather than broadly sweeping over everything." Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Best Practices encompasses the best of media literacy education - the instructional tools and techniques that teachers use to organize their classes, create engaging activities and accomplish their learning objectives. Explore this section to learn more about the exploding field of media literacy education and how to incorporate it in teaching, in learning and in life.
What Is Media Literacy viewing (most of them are too young to read newspapers and magazines), ouractivities focus on video and TV. Why teach media literacy to young children? http://cmp1.ucr.edu/exhibitions/education/vidkids/medialit.html
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.
Extractions: Home Page Page d'accueil Contact Contactez-nous Rachel McCabe Winston Emery Authors Rachel McCabe is a teacher of media education at Trafalgar School for Girls, Montreal. Winston Emery is associate professor of Education at the Faculty of Education, McGill University. This is the second of two articles about a study of the implementation of a media literacy curriculum project in three inner city schools Grade 5's in Montreal. The authors describe the development of technological literacy among the teachers and students as they learned about two Media Literacy concepts. The teaching featured the use of a SMARTboard interface, a list-serv and Web resources. The findings affirm the positive contribution of the devices to the development of technological literacy among teachers and pupils. But they also raise other issues: technological determinism and the role of interpretive teaching in educational technology. Introduction and Review of Literature In this article we examine the development of technological literacy among three groups of Grade 5 students and their teachers as they followed a short (eight-week) curriculum in media education. The curriculum project, initiated in three inner city schools of the English Montreal School Board (EMSB), ran for eight weeks from April to June 1999. The students and teachers used a SMARTboard interface, a list-serv and Web resources to learn about two key concepts of Media Literacy.
Extractions: Every day, we are bombarded with messages when we watch television, go online, or read newspapers and magazines. What do those messages mean? What is their purpose? How should we process media messages? In a recent e-interview with Education World, noted author, educator, and media literacy expert Catherine Gourley shared her thoughts about media literacy and its role in education. Gourley's latest book, Media Wizards: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Media Manipulations, introduces techniques to help students crack the codes of media messages. "Media wizards are a creative bunch. They produce their messages using a warehouse of tools visual effects, sound effects, words that have positive or negative connotations, headlines that SCREAM!, and photographs that sensationalize. Some wizards speak in sound bites and advertising slogans. Others mouth media metaphors. But their words and their illusions aren't magic. They are simply messages, each constructed with a purpose to inform, to persuade, or to influence behavior."
TEACHERS TALK MEDIA LITERACY. The idea of media literacy in our classrooms is a very exciting and Since Iteach high school, I realize that the students I teach have formed their own 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.
MediaChannel.org - WHY MEDIA LITERACY MATTERS Don t miss the Teachers Toolkit! Search the Teachers Toolkit for lesson plans,activities ideas. Or check out general tools for Teaching media literacy. http://www.mediachannel.org/classroom/
Extractions: Emerging technologies, the global economy and the Internet are changing what it means to be literate. The digital age is transforming the quantity, range and speed of information and communication in our lives. The mass media affect how we perceive and understand the world and people around us, from what we wear, eat and buy to how we relate to ourselves and others. In the 21 st century, the ability to interpret and create media is a form of literacy as basic as reading and writing.
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Extractions: HOME Let's Get Critical: A Media Literacy Toolkit For Parents, Kids And Teachers We're distracted and deadened by home-video slapstick and nightly news splatter, video-game carnage and 15-minute celebrities. To help young people make sense of our ever more mediated world, parents and teachers need to teach kids the basic moves of media self-defense: the critical viewing, listening and reading skills that will enable them to crack the cultural codes and parry the coercive messages bombarding them. fun The following resources from MediaChannel affiliates offer advice, lesson plans and classroom projects to help parents, teachers and young people become more media literate. Aliza Dichter and Mark Dery, "Teach Kids" editors From "Teletubbies" and "Power Rangers" to the full banquet of TV and Internet offerings in all their inane, violent, and commercial glory, children feast on the mass media these days. Parents concerned about giving their children both a more nutritious media diet and the critical viewing skills to digest it will find a wealth of resources in Media Awareness Network's "Becoming a Media-Wise Family." The many articles and tip-sheets on advertising, stereotypes, media violence, video games, television and the Internet offer insights into the way the media speak to children, the messages children may receive from media, and ways to help children understand, interpret and ask questions.
Teachers Lesson Plans This page includes activities for teaching vocabulary in content areas, 21st Century LiteraciesResourcesmedia literacy and Visual literacy Lesson http://www.literacymatters.org/lessons/contentreading.htm
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Extractions: Fall 2005 Catalogs are now available! If your FREE copy hasn't been delivered yet, sign up now to receive it! Don't miss the Second Edition of A Time to Learn: How to Create High Schools That Serve All Students by George Wood "For nearly two decades Americans have been deluged with numbers about high schools. Test scores, dropout rates, money spent (or not spent), teacher student ratios, and on and on. From this parade of numbers To continue reading from this chapter, click here Don't miss Harvey Daniel's workshop, Content Area Reading 4-12: Strategies That Enhance Comprehension and Discussion on November 7, 2005! Drawing on his new book, Subjects Matter: Every Teachers Guide to Content-Area Reading , "Smokey" Daniels will show how to help kids think better around challenging nonfiction and fiction texts. This practical, hands-on workshop answers a question raised by concerned teachers across the curriculum: How can I make sure my students understand, remember and enjoy what they read in science, math, and social studies, as well as language arts?
Your Child | Resources On Media And Media Literacy What is media literacy and why is it important for kids? Kids FirstCoalitionfor Quality Children s media works to teach media literacy and make http://www.med.umich.edu/1libr/yourchild/media.htm
Extractions: What is media literacy and why is it important for kids? According to a Kaiser Foundation study , kids spend the equivalent of a full-time workweek using media each week . As parents, we need to make sure our kids know how to read the media, so that they learn what we want them to learn from it, and don't learn things we would consider to be the wrong messages. Knowing how to read messages in the media (including TV, movies, magazines, advertisements, computer and video games, popular music, and the Internet) is called media literacy. Kids need to learn to: Here are some resources for parents and teachers: Why does media literacy matter? Understanding the Impact of the Media on Your Child from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) What parents need to know about media violence and media literacy from the AAP Media education can help with body image problems from the AAP The Ratings Game: Choosing your child's entertainment from the AAP Sex, the Media and Your Child
