Thought leaders and colleagues from a long list of organizations have encouraged us, nudged us and been our «media mentors», including: Fred Rogers Center for Early Learning and Children's Media at Saint Vincent College; American Library Association (ALA); Association of Children's Museums (ACM); Association of Library Service to Children (ALSC); Catherine Cook School; Center for Media and Child Health at Boston Children's Hospital; Center for Media and Human Development at Northwestern University; Chicago Children's Museum; Chicago Public Library; Chicago STEM Pathways Cooperative; Children's Technology Review; Columbia College Chicago; CPB / PBS Ready to Learn; Early Childhood Australia Digital Policy Group and Live Wires; Early Childhood Futures, Learning Sciences Institute Australia, Australian Catholic University; Early Childhood Investigations; Early Childhood STEM Working Group; HITN Early Learning Collaborative; Illinois Computing Educators (ICE); Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT); Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop; Kohl Children's Museum; Language Castle; Little eLit; National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC); National Association
of Media Literacy Education (NAMLE); New America; New Zealand Tertiary College; Technology and Young Children Interest Forum of NAEYC; and Waterford Institute, Early Education and Technology for Children (EETC)
The list of resources includes definitions, checklists, FAQ's, and dives deeper into many aspects
of media literacy and media literacy education.
Participants also called for greater recognition of the high levels
of media literacy among Aboriginal children, which belied the mainstream media's focus on the NT's poor NAPLAN results as a justification for the abolition of bilingual education programs.
Jessica Hankey (b. Los Angeles, CA) is an artist and is currently Director
of the Media Literacy Program at Southside Community Center in Ithaca, NY.
(b. Los Angeles, CA) is an artist and is currently Director
of the Media Literacy Program at Southside Community Center in Ithaca, NY.
He has received a Fulbright Scholarship, and will be in the Netherlands from January to June 2017 to study best practices in the teaching
of media literacy.
He has received a Fulbright Scholarship, and will be in the Netherlands from January to June 2017 to study best practices in the teaching
of media literacy.
Undergraduate and graduate students benefit from exploring the multidisciplinary history
of media literacy
It seems more often than ever we hear concerns about the lack
of media literacy.
Consider how multimedia might be used in a diverse P - 12 classroom for active learning, the development
of media literacy skills, and multicultural education.
A number of challenges constrain the integration
of media literacy and media production in K - 12 practice.
The future
of media literacy, in fact, depends on the development of long - term, rigorous, and intellectually demanding educational work with classroom teachers (Hobbs, 1998).
Project Look Sharp is a is a media literacy initiative out of Ithaca College, working to promote and support the integration
of media literacy and critical thinking into curricula at all grade levels and across instructional areas.
Baker assisted the South Carolina State Department of Education's English Language Arts team in revising the state teaching standards to include elements
of media literacy.
In 1999, his content analysis of teaching standards in all 50 states revealed that almost all include elements
of media literacy.
Project Look Sharp is a media literacy initiative of Ithaca College that develops and provides lesson plans, media materials, training, and support for the effective integration
of media literacy with critical thinking into classroom curricula at all education levels, including integration with the new common core standards.
The importance of media education in Canada can be seen through the inclusion
of media literacy outcomes in provincial and territorial curricula.
A more detailed definition
of media literacy involves five principles of knowledge:
Advocates
of media literacy believe the best way to become media literate is to produce media and engage in the editorial choices that professional producers and journalists make.
Although few states require the teaching
of media literacy, educators throughout the country are introducing classroom and even schoolwide initiatives designed to increase students» awareness and analysis of the media that surround them.
Howard Rheingold, who has been on the forefront
of media literacy since the 1990s, coined the term crap detection as a way to describe the necessary skills needed to consume media of any kind.
Stephen Balkam, CEO of The Family Online Safety Institute discusses the importance
of media literacy and the power of discernment for kids navigating the news on social media.
Not exact matches
«[Financial
literacy] didn't come as easy to me,» says Sam Zises, participant and CEO
of creative marketing agency Learned
Media.
At a similar panel in New York earlier in January that was dedicated to technology and
media in the 2016 election, top journalists from legacy
media organizations like the Associated Press and new
media organizations like the data - journalism website FiveThirtyEight picked over the carcass
of the election, pondering why data analysts misjudged Trump's electoral strength and how readers themselves often didn't necessarily possess the
media literacy to sift through fake and poorly reported news.
Shannon is a Certified Financial Planner (CFP), Chartered Investment Manager (CIM),
media personality, personal finance expert, financial
literacy advocate and founder
of the New School
of FinanceTM.
Rosalind Wiseman is a teacher, thought leader, author and
media spokesperson on bullying prevention, ethical leadership, the use
of social
media and
media literacy.
There is no mention
of digital
literacy or
media literacy.
They are facing a serious decline in finances (the economic displacement brought by changing
media) and their membership is taking on the definite demographics
of the specific sub-culture
of older
literacy, ie.
This state
of affairs can be only partially encouraging, however, for the increasing worldwide popularity
of TV has been accompanied by a steady decrease in reading (and in nations where the
literacy rate is low, television can have an instant impact on people who have never read a newspaper or magazine) At any rate, recent research has concluded that
of all
media, newspapers do the best job
of presenting a satisfactory image
of aging.
In this connection we can appreciate the need and significance
of economics,
literacy, computer
literacy, use
of media so as not to be brainwashed by the systemic forces, and dominant orthodoxies.
Encourage the development
of a course in
media literacy in your public school system: at elementary, junior high, and high school levels.
In previous chapters I have suggested what concerned citizens can do to deal with television without censorship: create local television councils and community action to get stations to accept their responsibility for the public welfare; introduce
media education courses in the schools and churches to create
media literacy; organize community groups to develop programs relating to community issues on the «narrowcast»
media of cable - TV, videocassettes, low - power TV, public - broadcasting facilities, and commercial side - band channels; employ stockholder action and other economic measures.
Media literacy classes, with their emphasis on questions rather than answers, provide a terrific, important and involving forum for our kids to learn how to think, how to analyze, how to deconstruct and how to make sure they're not being sold a bill
of goods.
As Madeline Levine persuasively contended in her most recent post, an essential job
of parenting in our (especially electronic)
media - saturated society is teaching
media literacy.
In addition to her work as a consultant for many PBS children's series, she was the founding president
of the National Association for
Media Literacy Education.
It may be too much to hope that
media literacy could yet be reclaimed as one
of Tessa Jowell's essential legacies.
It is curious that - in a world verging on the infamous reality «simulacrum», where facts and representations merge into one seamless flow
of sensory stimulation -
media -
literacy does not figure yet in the school curriculum.
The African Centre for
Media and Information
Literacy (AFRICMIL), has called on the Minister
of Education, Adamu Adamu, to urgently intervene and void the sack
of...
Likewise, conservatives with higher news
media literacy were less likely to believe five conspiracy theories commonly associated with conservatives — among them that Barack Obama was not born in the U.S., that global warming is a hoax, and that the 2010 health care law authorized government panels to make end -
of - life decisions for people on Medicare.
«Instead
of engaging in a technological rat race with extremists, we should consider incorporating critical
literacies — including digital
media, anti-racism and social justice — into school curricula as an alternative strategy.»
The researchers found that liberals with higher news
media literacy were less likely to believe any or all
of the five liberal conspiracy theories — among them that the federal government knew about the 9/11 terrorist attacks beforehand, that Republicans stole the 2004 presidential election through voter fraud in Ohio, and that there's a link between childhood vaccines and autism.
The researchers surveyed nearly 400 participants online in spring 2016 to gauge how their news
media literacy — measured as a combination
of news
media knowledge and psychological traits connected with processing news messages — might relate to their endorsement
of conspiracy theories.
And I talked about the deficit model as one
of them, and scientific
literacy and maybe the
media could be an explanation — that sort
of is what Emanuel was pointing to.
Just as technology - infused instruction has moved out
of the computer lab, we will see
media literacy begin to move across the curriculum, especially as teachers rely more and more on online resources and the access that students have to the internet for information.
Perhaps a teachable moment — the opportunity to contextualize violence in a frame
of empathy and
media literacy — is being lost.
Teaching
media literacy is not new, but with the explosion
of social
media and the lightning speeds at which information is shared, critical evaluation skills have never been more important.
Every morning, students immerse themselves in a program that uses the language and techniques
of drama, dance, music, and visual and
media arts to explore
literacy and numeracy.
In addition, weaving in good
media literacy and skills for navigating the new waters
of the Web helps us all.
To ensure that her students were engaged, New York teacher Lauren Leigh Kelly also designed a Hip - Hop Literature and Culture class, «to engage students in the study
of hip - hop texts, including songs, films, and music videos, as a means to develop
media literacy and critical - analysis skills.»
In one
of CERG's recent studies, students were 26 percent more likely to correctly identify accurate and inaccurate news stories after a course on
media literacy, even if those news stories supported their preconceived beliefs.