41. TeacherSource . Teaching With Technology . Literacy In The Information Age | PBS become better media educators —people who can teach with and about media as In the United States media studies are referred to as media literacy, http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/whats_new/techknow/may00.shtm

search options Friday, September 23, 2005 Literacy in the Information Age: Learning to Read Images. by Romana Bertolotti Visit the Teaching with Technology Article Archive for more technology-related content. There are those who say educators should prepare their students for the "Information Age." But aren't we are already in one? We live in an information-saturated and mediated world, and, for each new generation, the methods, tools and conventions of communication and media seem to increase exponentially. Does these changes affect the way young people think, create and communicate? Does it change the nature of school? What does it take to ensure that kids can communicate and learn via media and technology in some sort of critical fashion? What do I, as an educator, need to know to teach within this newly mediated world? The goal of a workshop I presented at School Tech Expo ( www.schooltechexpo In the United States media studies are referred to as media literacy, which highlights the importance of extending literacy skills beyond traditional print media. One of the obvious literacy skills related to the media is visual literacy, because increasingly more information is being conveyed by visual means, either with or without verbal accompaniment, and because students have more and more access to it. One of the central concerns of media education is with the understanding of how we arrive at the meaning we do, by identifying such influences as our own cultural background, the context in which we read a particular image, and the experiences we bring to the reading. Also central to media education are the media texts that convey implied meaning and reinforce the dominant ideologies.

42. Frontline: Teacher Center: Teachers' Guide: The Merchants Of Cool Tips for Teaching media literacy Discussion Starters and Topics Activities Reflections for Educators Resources PrinterFriendly Version http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/teach/cool/teach3.html

Intro/Show Summary Connecting the Dots Tips for Teaching Media Literacy Discussion Starters and Topics Activities Reflections for Educators Resources ... Printer-Friendly Version We care about our students, so when we think that media makers may be manipulating them or doing them harm, it's natural for us to react with concern or even anger. But if we let these feelings block our ability to listen to our students or to respect their opinions (especially when they differ from our own), we lose an important opportunity to connect. Here's how you can retain your opinions without letting them get in the way of engaging your students: Keep in mind that "The Merchants of Cool" is about teen culture. Just as you would treat a student's ethnic, racial, or religious culture with respect, approach their media culture with respect. Rather than convey a pre-determined conclusion, i.e., telling students what the message is, focus on giving students the skills they need to interpret messages for themselves. Include potential solutions or actions as part of your discussion. Lessons that stop at identification of a problem tend to leave students feeling cynical rather than skeptical or inquisitive. Because everyone interprets what they see and hear through the lens of their own experience, the more different you are from your students, the more likely it is that you will interpret media messages differently. So be prepared to encounter opinions that differ from your own and to recognize that multiple interpretations can be valid.

43. Return To Media Literacy Index Page Another way to enrich the environment for teaching media literacy is to integrateart into the curriculum. Art has been used to teach thinking skills, http://www.unm.edu/~abqteach/media_cus/01-04-03.htm

Return to Media Literacy Index Page Teaching Basic Concepts of Mass Communication with the Brain in Mind: An "Enriched" Approach to Introducing Media Literacy at the Middle Level Tina DiChiara "Brain-compatible learning is here to stay. You can bet it will effect nearly everything we do including teaching strategies, discipline policies, the arts, special education, curriculum, technology, bilingual programs, music, learning environments, staff development, assessment, and even organizational change." Eric Jensen, Teaching with the Brain in Mind The year 2001 marks the first time the Albuquerque Public Schools has acknowledged the importance of media literacy for its students by including performance benchmarks having to do with mass communication concepts in its newly-drafted standards. My objective is to provide middle school educators with interesting approaches for teaching basic concepts in the study of mass communication. There are fruitful findings in the world of research when it comes to brain-compatible learning, and my intention is to provide some details about the basic principles of those findings and then present practical applications in the classroom using Media Literacy as an impetus. Academic Setting School Setting Garfield Middle School is located in a now-predominantly Hispanic community whose families have attended Garfield since its opening in 1950. Two-thirds of the student body qualify for free or reduced lunch and breakfast programs. Terra Nova scores are lower than the district average in most subjects. The school provides bilingual instruction, special education services (for roughly a sixth of the student population) and Title I benefits, for all of which the school receives federal and state funding.

44. KLRU: Teachers > Internet Resources Internet Resources Secondary - media literacy There is a teach with C-SPANtutorial to get you started. Center for media literacy http://www.klru.org/teachers/resources_sec_medialiteracy.asp

SIGN IN JOIN/RENEW NOW! E-NEWSLETTERS SEARCH Programs A-Z TV Schedule Support KLRU Teachers myKLRU Find out when your favorite shows air. Personalize today. IN COMMUNITY Find out more about KLRU's community programs for kids families and teachers AUSTIN CITY LIMITS Check out the Web site for all of your favorite artists. OUR SHOWS Find out about gardening , what's going on in Austin and who Texas Monthly Talks will interview this week. NOW SHOWING 5:00 PM ZOOM 5:30 PM NIGHTLY BUSINESS REPORT 6:00 PM NEWSHOUR WITH JIM LEHRER 7:00 PM WASHINGTON WEEK Overview Video Broadcast/Streaming Internet Resources ... Secondary -> Media Literacy Arts College and Career Health and Guidance Language Arts ... Teen Issues Media Literacy The Alliance for Community Media This site offers technical assistance and political advocacy to community media centers. Alliance for a Media Literate America The AMLA is committed to promoting media literacy education that is focused on critical inquiry, learning, and skill-building.

45. Peter Levine: Should Schools Teach "media Literacy" and they are not well positioned to teach media literacy. However, thereare serious limitations to teaching information literacy in primary and http://www.peterlevine.ws/mt/archives/000216.html

Peter Levine A blog for civic renewal « two doses of realism about democracy Main from Persia to 12th century France and the 21st century web » July 26, 2004 should schools teach "media literacy" I owe a paper on the reliability of online medical information. I'm thinking of the following title: "Misinformation in Online Medical Information: What is the Role of Schools?" My answer would be: Schools should have as small a role as possible, because we have already loaded too many responsibilites on them, and they are not well positioned to teach "media literacy." An outline follows. I. There is an argument that schools should devote time and other resources to teaching students “information literacy” so that young people will learn not to be misled by false online information, especially concerning health. The argument goes like this. 3. Believing false health information has costs for the individual and for society. For example, SARS “protective kits” were prominently advertised online in 2003 as a way to prevent Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome. They would not work. Purchasing and using such kits would waste money and could even increase the chance of infection and transmission. 4. It is probably more important than ever that average people have correct beliefs about health, because: the health system is less paternalistic and gives patients more choices; patients are required to manage their own treatment of such chronic conditions as diabetes and high blood pressure; pharmaceutical companies are more aggressively advertising their products; and there is a larger volume of (often conflicting) information and advice available about many conditions. 5. Since people with more education are better at avoiding misleading information, the widespread prevalence of misinformation may increase social inequality.

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47. New Jersey Media Literacy Project; Education, Health, Youth The New Jersey media literacy Project is engaged in research, outreach, inservicetraining assiststeachers who media Education Helps teach Students http://www.mediastudies.rutgers.edu/cmsyme.html

Youth, Media Education and Health Center for Media Studies Professional Development ... Television Dependence, Diagnosis, and Prevention Some Good Media Literacy Websites: Alliance for a Media Literate America Action Coalition for Media Education Media Literacy Clearinghouse The Media Literacy Online Project ... AnimAction Other Valuable Sites: Character Education Social and Emotional Learning Critical Thinking Multiple Intelligences Youth, Media Education and Health New Jersey Media Literacy Project The New Jersey Media Literacy Project is designed, in line with the Core Curricular Content Standards of the state's Department of Education in Language Arts Literacy, Social Studies, and Comprehensive Health, to help enable New Jersey's students to become "media literate," i.e., able to access, evaluate, analyze, and produce both electronic and print media. The Center conducts media education workshops for New Jersey's teachers. Hundreds of teachers in the state are already engaged in media education, typically in English and language and communication arts, social studies and civics, and health and consumer behavior classes yet relatively few have received formal pre- or inservice training. The Center for Media Studies is involved in continuing education for those New Jersey teachers who wish to better fulfill the state's Core Curricular Content Standards and incorporate media instruction in their classes.

48. Project Look Sharp - Media Literacy Organizations Equipping parents and teachers to teach media literacy from the point of view ofChristian values Fairness Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR) http://www.ithaca.edu/looksharp/resources_mlorgs.php

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49. Media Literacy For Success media literacy for Success is designed for educators, 41 lesson plans (K12)that teach students to challenge media messages shaping our attitudes, http://www.nmmlp.org/NEW PRODUCT PAGES/ML-for-success.htm

50. Media Literacy (General) media literacy What is it? Why teach it? http//www.mediaawareness.ca/english/teachers/index.cfm media literacy What is it? Why teach it? http://www.shambles.net/pages/learning/resources/medialit/

(best viewed at 800 x 600) document.write(""+doClock("W0","%20","D1","%20","M0","%20","Y0","%20")+""); http://www.shambles.net Media Literacy (General) Add a link Top of page Newz Crew http://newzcrew.org/ Newz Crew This project is an innovative, online program by and for youth using the Internet and news media to develop and promote media literacy and youth engagement in the democratic process. The Newz Crew is a project to introduce you to young people around the world who also care about what's happening in the world around them. If you are in high school (or high school aged), join your own Newz Crew and share what you think and feel about how current events are affecting your life. Media Literacy: What is it? Why teach it? http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/teachers/index.cfm Media Literacy: What is it? Why teach it? In this section, you can find out what media education is all about, why media literacy and Web literacy are essential life skills for today's young people, and how you can begin to help students think critically about the media. There are also useful quotes and articles by media education experts. Are you looking for practical teaching units and classroom activities for media education? Do you have great ideas to share with other teachers? This is the place for you! We invite your comments and your contributions.

51. Walden Media Forum Interview with Renee Hobbs about media literacy, Movies and Motivating Students Film is a powerful teaching tool because it connects ideas with emotions http://www.walden.com/teach/forum_features.jsp

52. Kellner: Media Literacy And Critical Pedagogy Critical media literacy takes a comprehensive approach that would teach teaching critical media literacy, however, involves occupation of a site above http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/courses/ed253a/dk/ML&CP.htm

Douglas Kellner Shared Differences collects a wide range of articles which discuss how to organize courses in "multicultural media and practical pedagogy," while a diverse group of books that I will review focus on the importance of developing critical media literacy in analyzing media culture and producing alternative media. The books under review thus complement each other in terms of contributing to a critical pedagogy and challenge educators to rethink their curricula and teaching strategies to meet the challenge of confronting and dissecting media culture in our increasing multicultural society, while teaching the skills that will empower citizens and students to become sensitive to the politics of representations of race, ethnicity, gender, class, and other cultural differences in media culture. In this review, I will use Shared Differences to discuss how media of cultural representation such as film, video, photography, and multimedia can be used to promote multicultural education. I then engage a series of books that presents theoretical and practical articulation of the issues involved in developing critical media literacy. My argument is that education today needs to foster a variety of new competencies in using, analyzing, and producing media to empower students and to make education relevant to the challenges of the present and future. New technologies are altering every aspect of our society and we need to understand and make use of them both to understand and transform our world.

53. MediaFamily.org | Links: Media Education And Media Literacy Resources media literacy Institute equips parents and educators to teach media evaluation It also teaches parents about media literacy and how to help their http://www.mediafamily.org/links/index.shtml

Get Media Wise : Watch what your kids watch Home Donate Store Contact Us ... Email This Page Links c o n t e n t s Take Action! Donate Speakers/Training MediaWise Columns ... About Us Media Education and Media Literacy Resources The goal of the National Institute on Media and the Family (Institute) is to provide resources for educators, parents, community leaders, and others concerned about the ever increasing impact of media on children, families, and communities. The following is a list of other organizations concerned with media education and media literacy issues. Continue to check our web site for new sites and resources. The resources listed are organizations separate from the Institute. The Institute does not endorse nor does it assume liability for the currency, accuracy, or availability of any information on these sites. Please inform our webmaster if you locate any links that have moved, are no longer operational, or should be reviewed and added to the resources list. Thank you.

54. TechWeb The Business Technology Network The easiest way to teach media literacy which is just the subject or skill ofunderstanding how a message is put together, why it s put together, http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/backtoschool/TWB19990912S0001

Application Development Network Security TW (All Sites) InformationWeek InternetWeek Network Computing CommWeb Intelligent Enterprise Advanced IP Pipeline Biz Intel Pipeline Compliance Pipeline Desktop Pipeline Database Pipeline Developer Pipeline Database Pipeline Enterprise Apps Pipeline IT Utility Pipeline Linux Pipeline Messaging Pipeline Mobile Pipeline Network Magazine Networking Pipeline Outsourcing Pipeline Security Pipeline Server Pipeline Small Business Pipeline Storage Pipeline Sys Mgmt Pipeline SOA Pipeline Windows Magazine Microsites White Papers Optimize Government Enterprise The Open Enterprise Financial Technology Transform Magazine advanced September 13, 1999 (6:27 AM EDT) Technology Guru Touts Media Literacy By Malcolm Maclachlan, TechWeb.com Douglas Rushkoff thinks schools aren't teaching the right subjects. Rushkoff, who has written six books on media and technology, said schools ought to teach children how to deconstruct the messages coming at them through television, the Internet, and other media. In Playing the Future , first released in 1995, Rushkoff laid out the idea that adults are immigrants in amedia-rich world where children are the natives. While adults think today's children are deficient in basic skills, Rushkoff said they are rich in skills that let them navigate the information-saturated environment in which we now live.

55. Media Literacy Saskatchewan support teachers who wish to teach media literacy skills in the classroom . the WWW which may assist them with the teaching of media literacy skills. http://www.quadrant.net/Media_Literacy/

Media Literacy Saskatchewan (MLS) is a Special Subject Council of the Saskatchewan Teacher's Federation. Formed in 1990, its mandate is to support teachers who wish to teach media literacy skills in the classroom. MLS publishes MEDIAVIEW, a newsletter designed to provide members with practical ideas and lesson plans to put to immediate use. This web site is designed to meet a number of objectives. First, it is to serve as a resource for MLS members to locate resources on the WWW which may assist them with the teaching of media literacy skills. Second, it is a location for MLS resources, including lesson plans and back issues of MEDIAVIEW. This site is also intended to be an electronic link between this organization and other, similar organizations around the world. Our Executive Members President Ann van der Wal, Box 298 Dalmeny, SK., van.der.wal.ann@sbe.saskatoon.sk.ca Vice President Robert Pace, 85 Calder Crescent, Regina, SK space@eagle.wbm.ca Secretary Treasurer Ghislaine de Tilly, 138-320 Heritage Cres

56. Media Literacy Some media literacy programs also teach children how to use various mediumsthemselves. According to the Aspen Institute Leadership Forum on media literacy http://www.zmag.org/zmag/articles/feb98peters.htm

Media Literacy By Cynthia Peters When my daughter came home from kindergarten telling me that her school was teaching her about the media, advertising, and such things as toy packaging, I was impressed. She was beginning to get the tools necessary to think critically about the blizzard of advertising and commercialism we confront everyday. It’s always been clear that no matter how much parents de-emphasize TV or avoid the malls and the Disney stores, kids will be hit hard by the corporations that want them to consume their products and their values. We can’t protect kids from all the media messages, but we can empower them to be critical. We can make them "media literate," the goal, I discovered, of an important political movement that has gained momentum in the last few years. With programs sprouting all over the country, finding outlets in schools and churches, the media literacy movement aims to equip children with the skills they need to critically view commercials and be better consumers. Some media literacy programs also teach children how to use various mediums themselves. According to the Aspen Institute Leadership Forum on Media Literacy (1992) and the Canadian Association for Media Literacy, media literacy is the ability to "access, analyze, evaluate and produce communication in a variety of forms." Is this a long overdue anti-corporate critique of the media? Not exactly. The people who preach media literacy hail from all over the political spectrum. Their funding sources are everything from the Catholic Church to Disney Corporation and MTV. They use media literacy as a tool to counter whatever media messages they find particularly abhorrent or as a neutral form of "education."

57. Media Literacy Curriculum Lifting the Cover off TV Graphic media literacy Workshops for Educators This is not a course in media technology. It is a course in how to teach about http://www.dock.net/gathercoal/MediaLiteracy.html

Corroboree, LLC Celebrating Good Ideas in Education Media Literacy Workshops for Educators We are hurled into a new communications age that is differentiated from the old by the speed, accuracy and amount of information being exchanged at any given moment in time. Just as the convergence of the technologies of block printing and the wine press spawned a new literacy movement, so too, the new communications media emerging from developments in computer, telephone, video and audio technologies demand the teaching and critical deliberation of new understandings, skills and strategies. The question needs to be asked, are we preparing our children for this new communications age? Media literacy must be addressed through education if we are to ensure that the "information society" is also a society of wisdom, knowledge and care. Key Benefits Prepare your students for the communication/information age Hands-on Learning for an entire class of students Integrates into the existing curriculum What you can Expect This "hands-on" workshop will investigate ways teachers can integrate media literacy into elementary and secondary school curriculum. You don't have to be an expert in the field of media arts and sciences to learn to teach about the media and their messages. In fact, the guided, open-ended, process approach to teaching and learning allows teachers to learn right along with the students in their class. This is not a course in media technology. It is a course in how to teach about the electronic media and their messages.

58. The Free Expression Policy Project Introduction Why media literacy Education is Preferable to Censorship made teachers acutely aware of the need to teach media literacy skills. http://www.fepproject.org/policyreports/medialiteracy2d.html

Site Last Updated 9-15-2005 Art Censorship Censorship History ... of Youth I nformation Commons Internet Media Policy Politic al Speech Sex and Censorship Violence in the Media Home About Us ... White Papers Search FEPP MEDIA LITERACY: AN ALTERNATIVE TO CENSORSHIP This report may be reproduced in its entirety as long as the Free Expression Policy Project is credited, a link to the Project's Web site is provided, and no charge is imposed. The report may not be reproduced in part or in altered form, or if a fee is charged, without our permission. Please let us know if you reprint. Thanks to Frank Baker, Cary Bazalgette, Wally Bowen, David Considine, Barry Duncan, Gary Ferrington, Bob McCannon, Marieli Rowe, Elizabeth Thoman, and Patricia Wright for helpful comments. Table of Contents Executive Summary Introduction: Why Media Literacy Education is Preferable to Censorship I. What is Media Literacy Education? II. Media Literacy in the U.S.: A Brief History ... Bibliography EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Media literacy education has come a long way since the 1970s, when the first "critical thinking" courses were introduced in a few American schools. Most educators today understand that with the revolutionary changes in communication that have occurred in the last half-century, media literacy has become as essential a skill as the ability to read the printed word. Equally important, media literacy education can relieve the pressures for censorship that have, over the last decade, distorted the political process, threatened First Amendment values, and distracted policymakers from truly effective approaches to widely shared concerns about the mass media's influence on youth.

59. TechLEARNING.com Technology Learning - The Resource For Multimedia is the norm nowadays. We must teach media literacy. Comment A mustread for anyone concerned with this isssueAll Consuming Images The http://www.techlearning.com/instantpoll/showComments.jhtml?id=173201002

60. SIMILE Studies In Media And Information Literacy Education media text about media that forces educators who teach media literacy into an This is the first issue of Studies in media Information literacy http://www.utpjournals.com/simile/issue1/issue1toc.html

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