Extractions: By Fran Trampiets Question: Why should we take time away from traditional subjects and teach about the media when children already spend so much time with media and often know more about it than adults? Answer: Its not a case of replacing traditional subjects with media studies, but of teaching traditional subjects in new ways ways that reflect the realities of todays information age. The traditional classroom, where the teacher and textbook were the primary sources of information, has evolved into learning centers where computers open up whole new worlds of learning opportunities. The critical factor is teaching students to use computers and use information wisely. Media education teaches students how to set learning objectives and how to access information that will help them reach those objectives. It teaches them how to analyze and evaluate the information they find and to determine whats most relevant and helpful. Media education almost always results in more enthusiasm for learning because it gives students more control over their information searches and their ways of demonstrating what theyve learned.
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Media_literacy What is media literacy? What is media literacy? Why media literacy Matters Why teach media literacyFran Trampiets World Press Review Online http://www.emtech.net/media_literacy.html
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."
Media Literacy Rick Shepherd, Why teach media literacy, teach Magazine, media literacyinvolves teaching the skills that will empower citizens and students to become http://www.21stcenturyschools.com/Media_Literacy_Defined.htm
Extractions: Media literacy empowers people to be both critical thinkers and creative producers of an increasingly wide range of messages using image, language, and sound. It is the skillful application of literacy skills to media and technology messages. As communication technologies transform society, they impact our understanding of ourselves, our communities, and our diverse cultures, making media literacy an essential life skill for the 21st century. (From the AMLA web site - Alliance for a Media Literate America) Click links below to additional information on Media Literacies! Definitions of Media Literacy Media Literacy teaches analysis, access and production of media. Media consist of "mediums" such as books, newspapers, billboards, magazines, comics, mail, packaging, jokes, radio, television, movies, software and the Internet.
Extractions: to Teach Media Literacy, Awareness Students can be taught to identify and avoid gratuitous violence on television and in other media. Media literacy is also an important factor for youth in counteracting advertising that promotes drinking, unhealthy eating and other behaviors that compromise our health. Explanations (Summaries, Articles) Evidence (Reports, Research Reviews, Major Case Studies) E xamples (Canadian and Other Examples) Resources
2005 AMC - Media Literacy Symposium media literacy and health and wellbeing education into their teaching. How to teach Zinemaking in the Classroom w/ Jenna Freedman Part of media http://www.clamormagazine.org/amc/mls.html
Extractions: Join us for the Third Annual Symposium on Media Literacy in Education! Analyzing and producing media in the classroom can be used to educate and empower youth and to strengthen democracy and democratic ideals. This one-day symposium includes interactive workshops that provide practical information on using video, print, photography, and the Internet to empower your students. Learn how to use media in your classroom to complement your curriculum and teach critical analysis skills! Keep your students interested and informed by using media!
MediaLiteracy.com Gateway Site For Media Literacy Education A gateway site with hundreds of links and resources on media literacy educationfor teachers, If you want to use television to teach somebody something, http://www1.medialiteracy.com/home.jsp
MediaLiteracy.com Teaching Media Some schools teach media literacy skills in media Studies classes, New Mexicomedia literacy Project Innovative CDROM teaching resources, study guides http://www1.medialiteracy.com/teaching_media.jsp
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
Media Literacy K12 curriculum to teach media literacy with integrated units. Great lesson plansin pdf files (from 20-30 pages each). Based on State of Maryland standards http://www.edselect.com/media.htm
Extractions: News.real is on every Saturday morning at 11 a.m. E.T. The show will replay on Sunday mornings at 7 a.m. E.T. and can be recorded on Monday mornings at 5 a.m. E.T. for the Cable-in-the-Classroom service. Each program will be preceded by a short network newscast. You can download the 20 minutes on-line video of the weekly show. Lesson Plans Past Lesson Plans
MediaStudies Christian media literacy Institute Equips educators to teach media evaluation in Assignment media literacy Provides a wide range of teaching tools and http://www.mediastudies.com/
Extractions: The purpose of MediaStudies. com is to help advance research and education in media studies and critical thinking. The site serves as a hub - providing links to international news media studies sites , and other resources for media educators, students, researchers, and the wider community. Feedback and suggestions for new links are welcome. Pl ease contact me by email or at the address below. Peter Clayton Editor Vancouver, September, '05 Tr an sl a ... e International News World Press Review Translates into English and reprints articles from newspapers and magazines from around the world. Also publishes originally written material analyzing international affairs and the press in the countries in question. AllAfrica.com Provider of African news and information worldwide. @siamedia News and Views from the Asia Pacific. Asia Times Online A quality Internet-only publication that reports and examines geopolitical, political, economic and business issues.
Heinemann How to teach media literacy in the English Classroom Ellen Krueger, Millburn HighSchool, New Jersey, Mary T. Christel, Adlai E. Stevenson High School, http://www.heinemann.com/product/0573.asp
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?
Media Literacy - Communication - Themepark CNN Ask An Expert Why teach media literacy? http//cnnstudentnews.cnn.com/2000/fyi/teachers.tools/10/16/ask.expert.trampiets3/ 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.
Masters In Mass Communications teach with and about film and television Integrating media literacy concepts Why teach media literacy? Reprinted with permission from teach magazine, 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.
Media Literacy In A Post 9/11 World Through the educational sphere of media literacy, this lesson offers a As educators in this era, we have a professional responsibility to teach our 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.
Non-web Literacy Resources literacy in a Digital World teaching and Learning in the Age of Cortes,Carlos E. The Children are Watching How the media teach about Diversity. http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/21stcent/printres.html
Extractions: Visual NON-WEB LITERACY RESOURCES Media Literacy Multicultural Literacy Visual Literacy Information Literacy Allen, Christine. Skills for Life: Information Literacy Skills Grades 7-12. 3rd ed. Worthington, OH: Linworth Publishing, Inc., 1999. Organized around the nine information literacy standards, each chapter focuses on one standard and provides instructional guides or lessons for different areas of the curriculum. One volume focuses on the elementary level and the other on middle and high school learners. American Association of School Librarians and the Association for Educational Communications and Technology. Information Literacy Standards for Student Learning . Chicago and London: American Library Association, 1998. Provides a conceptual framework and broad guidelines for describing the information literate student. Prepared by the American Association of School Librarians and the Association for Educational Communications and Technology, it presents nine core information literacy standards and indicators for each standard. The twenty-nine indicators help educators and librarians recognize ways the standards can be achieved. Also includes levels of proficiency for each performance indicator. American Library Association.
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Facilitating Media Literacy Learning Seeing and believing how to teach media literacy in the English classroomWritten by experienced classroom teachers, this book offers a practical http://www.londonpubliclibrary.ca/info_by_subj/info_by_subject.php?subject_uid=1