Geena Davis, Academy Award Winning Actor, shares advice for parents why it is important to teach your kids
media literacy when watching TV with them
Not exact matches
One critical issue to keep in mind
when sharing and discussing these videos with your students is
media literacy, including general Internet reliability.
When you consider the fact that, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation study, kids in the United States ages 8 - 18 spend an average of six hours or more using
media each day, it becomes that much more urgent for educators to become fluent in digital
literacy.
When educators, parents, and community leaders work together as a team to promote
media literacy as the twenty - first - century form of print
literacy, incorporating the skills of thinking, reading, and writing, they will be sending a powerful and coordinated message to this «
media generation.»
Across the board, in every country studied, what they found was that women retain the
literacy skills they learned as young girls in school — even
when they attended lowquality schools only for a couple of years — and then use those skills later, as mothers, to understand and connect with public health information disseminated through the
media and through healthcare workers.
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When people have digital and
media literacy competencies,» Hobbs concludes, «they recognize personal, corporate and political agendas and are empowered to speak out on behalf of the missing voices and omitted perspectives in our communities.
Because instruction in critical thinking for
media literacy is vital
when cultivating awareness of digital citizenship, incorporating lessons on fake news presents a timely opportunity for student engagement.
Virtually any
literacy skill you can think of is exercised
when using digital
media.
When the library
media specialist is actively involved in the instructional program of the school, collaborating with teachers and teaching information
literacy skills, academic achievement is higher.
When media specialists are cut, information
literacy instruction and research instruction are also cut because there is no one to provide direct instruction or to collaborate with teachers to integrate those aspects of learning into the curriculum.
Art Silverblatt, my
media communications professor who literally wrote the book on Media Literacy, greatly influenced how I use production values when designing co
media communications professor who literally wrote the book on
Media Literacy, greatly influenced how I use production values when designing co
Media Literacy, greatly influenced how I use production values
when designing covers.
Taking away access to highly qualified library
media specialists is not providing students with a well - rounded quality education, especially
when our county has such a need in the area of
literacy.