TWI, Renee Hobbs On Media Literacy In World Lit Positioning media literacy within the Secondary English Language analysis and mediaproduction activities into the emphasis on popular media and contemporary http://www.writinginstructor.com/areas/englished/hobbs1.html
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. In the book, The Rise and Fall of English , Robert Scholes recommends a major overhaul in the teaching of English by replacing the canon of literary texts with a canon of concepts, precepts and practices for investigating the meaning-making process. He suggests that restoring the medieval trivium of grammar, dialectic, and rhetoric as the center posts in English education will help students "situate themselves in their own culture [. . .] and make the basic processes of language itself intelligible and fully available for use" (119). The point is not to pretend to offer students some magic talisman that will enable them to tell truth from falsehood in the media, but rather help them understand mediation (the pouring of raw data through the sieve of any particular media) as a textual process that requires interpretation. (140)
TWI, Alsup And Wastal On Writing Culture These activities and literacy events happen One of the media educators goalsis expanding the understanding students have of literacy and what it http://www.writinginstructor.com/areas/englished/introduction.html
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. The call for papers for this release of The Writing Instructor asked teachers, scholars, and students working in middle and secondary education to explore theories and methods of teaching media literacy and popular culture to adolescents. The essays, editorials, hypertexts, and on-line conversations we have included address issues of current interest and debate in the field of media literacy education, particularly in connection to composition studies and writing pedagogy. So what is media literacy? Obviously, its pedagogical goal is primarily to teach students to be
Scanning Television / Videos For Media Literacy educator or just beginning to teach about media the trade and classroomtested activitiesthat fit Television is the most essential media literacy resource to http://interact.uoregon.edu/MediaLit/JCP/scantv/Scanning_TV_1/sctv_1_info.html
Extractions: Scanning Television First Edition Winner - Bronze Plaque - Columbus International Film and Video Festival -1996 The festival is a well known educational media festival. One of the top festivals, along with the Houson and Charleston Worldfests, the New York Festival, and the National Educational Media Network (MEMN) in Oakland. Top award in a category is the Chris Award, followed by the Bronze Plaque. Winner: New York Festivals: Gold Medal for Education (General) Series Whether you are an experienced media educator or just beginning to teach about media in your subject area, Scanning Television is for you! Five videotapes offer a rich "database" of 40 student-centered video clips and print activities that stimulate students to become active media users in a world awash in information. The creative teacher's guide provides busy teachers with valuable "tricks of the trade" and classroom-tested activities that fit easily across the regular curriculum and work in tandem with the video. Produced in Canada, the print-video kit is completely appropriate for U.S. classrooms. Scanning Television is the most essential media literacy resource to come out in years! It's a new basic.
Critical Media Literacy MEF media Education Foundation. Center for media literacy. Skills and Strategiesfor media Education. Teacher Guides and activities for C-SPAN in the Classroom. http://www.21stcenturyschools.com/Critical_Media_Literacy.htm
Extractions: September 11th 21st Century Schools 21st Century Living Bibliography ... Workshops 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) 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.
Using Video In The Classroom media literacy is the ability to analyze, evaluate and Please ask your Library mediaSpecialist if you through the teacher's guides for ideas and activities. http://www.prairiepublic.org/education/teachers/techniques.htm
Extractions: Useful Techniques For Teachers Instructional television, video, and other technologies like maps, books, film, newspapers and slides, help students learn and retain what they have learned. Most instructional television/video programs are designed to stimulate interaction between the student and teacher. However, to help students get the most out of supplementary video, the teacher must have the knowledge, skills, confidence and enthusiasm to spark that interaction. Television in the classroom is a frienda teacher's aide. Teaching with video is interesting and rewarding; it brings many new and exciting experiences to the classroom. The attitude of the teacher is very important in making the lesson a success. If the teacher doesn't take instructional television and video resources seriously or gives them only marginal attention, learning benefits will be minimal. Instructional television's effectiveness will be only as good as the teacher's method. A good teacher is a good teacher television or no television. The construction and management of learning using a video-based lesson is a technique the teacher will develop from experience. However, many teaching techniques and tips on using television and video can be shared with you to aid in the development of technology-based lesson planning.
ED442147 2000-07-00 Media Literacy. ERIC Digest D152. it is imperative for educators to teach what M It concludes with possible learningactivities and Web site addresses of three media literacy organizations. http://www.ericfacility.net/databases/ERIC_Digests/ed442147.html
Extractions: Source: ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading English and Communication Bloomington IN. Media Literacy. ERIC Digest D152. THIS DIGEST WAS CREATED BY ERIC, THE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER. FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT ERIC, CONTACT ACCESS ERIC 1-800-LET-ERIC Children today are growing up in what O'Sullivan, Dutton and Rayner (1998) call a "media saturated" world, in which mass media, including the Internet, have a commanding presence in daily life. Media messages exert such powerful "social, emotional and intellectual influences" (Hepburn, 1999) that it is important to develop a society which understands how media can both serve and deceive. It is thus imperative for educators to teach what Megee (1997) calls "the new basic"- media literacy - so that learners can be producers of effective media messages as well as "critical consumers of ideas and information" (Rafferty, 1999). WHAT IS MEDIA LITERACY?
Extractions: Related Articles Related Resources ... Language Arts Curriculum Article C U R R I C U L U M A R T I C L E 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."
Publications - Media Campaign media literacy for Drug Prevention This guide for middle of the National Youth AntiDrugmedia Campaign Third and parents as a result of Campaign activities. http://www.mediacampaign.org/publications/
Extractions: This guide for middle school educators provides lessons that use the newspaper as a springboard to teach students to recognize media influences that can affect their decisions about substance use. Evaluation of the National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign: Third Semi-Annual Report of Findings (PDF 7.99MB)
Media Literacy Web Links Center for media literacy http//www.medialit.org/ This site a calendar of eventsfor media educators, with program has a number of activities which help http://www.teachworld.com/tw_pages/media_lit_links.html
Resource Guides For School Library Media Program Development will equip school library media specialists and way, the components needed to teachinformation literacy. Power Research Tools Learning activities and Posters http://www.ala.org/aasl/resources/curriculum.html
Extractions: A relatively simple but well-developed webquest for middle school students. There are two main tasks: 1) students will teach their class about an existing federal holiday by creating a PowerPoint presentation; and 2) student teams will imagine a new holiday that represents the spirit of America and then write a persuasive argument which will be supported by either a poster or a postage stamp in order to convince the class that their idea is the best one. Includes links to all the required sites, a teacher guide, and even a voting ballot. (added 1/10/03, reviewed 1/10/03) International Kids' Space
Extractions: Take TILT (Texas Information Literacy Tutorial), an interactive tutorial available from The University of Texas System Digital Library. How to Critically Analyze Information Sources , a tutorial from Reference Services Division, Olin*Kroch*Uris Libraries, Cornell University Library. Information Literacy and the Net , series of short modules for conducting training from the Bellingham Schools, Bellingham, Washington. Module One deals with information literacy. Subsequent modules progress into types of literacies, learning styles, information gathering and sorting. Module Sixteen culminates with relating an information literacy lesson to school district policy.
Literacy Links - Teach Any Child Or Adult To Read linkages between new and old media (eg community promote and encourage all bookrelatedactivities in South a method developed in South Africa teach any child http://www.teachingtoread.com/pages/Links.htm
Extractions: The Centre for the Book was established to develop a culture of reading in South Africa. It lobbies government on national book policy and acts as a broker between sectors of the book industry while also representing libraries, educational institutions and, most importantly, readers. The Centre helps to co-ordinate, promote and encourage all book-related activities in South Africa. JET - Joint Education Trust
The Arts, Media And Literacy a series of seminara and family learning activities. reading again. Her agenda extendsbeyond increasing literacy. Culture, media and Sport 10year strategy http://www.literacytrust.org.uk/Database/arts.html
Extractions: The arts, media and literacy Arts, media and literacy update Government approaches Reports and surveys Focus areas Campaign for Learning through Museums and Galleries Initiatives Research Publications and resources Organisations and links Articles from Literacy Today Initiatives from the database (focusing on surveys carried out between 1996 and 1999) Government approaches Schools to receive creativity packs £40 million pilot scheme aims to bring arts renaissance Culture and creativity: the next ten years, DCMS (March 2001) Arts make you a better pupil - Arts education in secondary school The Learning Power of Museums , DCMS ... From Policy to Partnership: developing the arts in schools,
Links Dr. Peter DeBenedittis Information on media literacy, including how the media influencesstudent's television rather than alternative activities to TV. http://www.limitv.org/links.htm
NLU Library - Mission Statement services and instructional media services which staff in their instructional, research,and scholarly activities;; which promote information literacy and reading http://www.nl.edu/ulibrary/mission.html
Extractions: LIBRARY MISSION STATEMENT The Mission of the University Library is to provide a comprehensive program of library and instructional media services to support National-Louis University's mission which is expressed through excellence in teaching, research and service. The Library's role is to support the academic curriculum. The University Library has a set of purposes which support and are analogous to the institutional purposes. The purposes of this comprehensive library and instructional media program are as follows: to serve as an active partner in the teaching and learning processes and activities of the University; to enlarge, maintain, and make accessible the collections of information, materials, research resources, and equipment to support the University's students, faculty, and staff in their instructional, research and scholarly activities; to provide library public services, library technical services and instructional media services which assist faculty, students, and staff in their instructional, research, and scholarly activities;
The Free Expression Policy Project a curriculum package to teach college students the most effective media literacyprogram integrates and includes both analysis and production activities. http://www.fepproject.org/policyreports/medialiteracyfull.html
Extractions: 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.
Media Literacy Beyond Blame. Though its goal to teach children how about why such dolls and activitiesare pushed Riley says that young people need media literacy to help http://www.zmag.org/zmag/articles/feb98peters.htm
Extractions: 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."
Early Literacy Development They can teach language and literacy through science move beyond strict skillsbasedactivities to engage New media literacy An interview with Bill Tally and http://www.edc.org/spotlight/mos_format/literacy/teaching.htm
Extractions: TEACHING TEACHERS ABOUT TALK The Importance of Conversation in Preschool Classrooms On the third floor of Larsen Hall at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, thousands of video and audiocassettes line the walls of a room not much bigger than a closet. The cassettes contain data of an unusual sort-voices of children in ordinary conversation with each other and with adults at school, at play, and at home. The conversations comprise the raw data of a longitudinal research effort known as the Home-School Study of Language and Literacy Development. Begun in 1987 by EDC senior researcher David Dickinson and Catherine Snow, professor of language and literacy at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, the study set out to examine the connections between children's early spoken language skills and their later school performance. "Our interest was in low-income children in particular," Dickinson explains, "because it was apparent that somewhere in upper elementary school—fourth or fifth grades—-working-class children begin to fall behind their middle-class peers. It seemed to us that their oral language skills—-established in the preschool years—lay at the heart of their later struggles."
Worthwhile Wanderings:Media designed to help teachers integrate media literacy into classroom Find lesson plans,classroom activities, news, research and lessons on current media topics. http://www.qesnrecit.qc.ca/ela/www/media.htm
