Media Education/Literacy

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Comment by Kelly Farrow on February 24, 2012 at 9:59pm

Kelly, I recently subscribed to Rethinking Schools and have really been enjoying it. It's got lots of media literacy-type ideas, lessons, and resources.

Comment by Faith Rogow on February 22, 2012 at 7:33am

Kelly - Your query is difficult to answer without knowing what you already have, but if it were me I would purchase equipment (like digital cameras) because there is so much inquiry-based media literacy stuff now available for free.  Cyndy Scheibe's and my new book, THE TEACHER'S GUIDE TO MEDIA LITERACY, includes hundreds of activity/lesson ideas, and purchasers of the book can access the companion website to download the clips, images, and handouts you need to do many of them.  Renee Hobbs' new book, DIGITAL AND MEDIA LITERACY shares the lesson ideas of many middle and high school teachers.  Project Look Sharp (Ithaca College) has developed a wide range of curriculum-driven media literacy kits, covering science, social studies, and more, and all downloadable for free.  And there are lots of websites offering free materials on specific topics like gender and body image, pseudoscience, Internet credibility and cyberbullying, and more.  Let us know what you can get for $500 these days, and congratulations on the grant!

Comment by Frank W. Baker on February 21, 2012 at 12:16pm

Kelly, I just authored a new book " Media Literacy in the K-12 Classroom" (ISTE) which would be a perfect starter for you. It covers the main concepts, critical thinking questions, but more importantly, it offers many concrete ideas on how to teach media literacy. I hope you'll consider acquiring it. Frank

Comment by Kelly Philbeck on February 21, 2012 at 11:58am

Wow, Frank!  Thanks for the link.  I know how I'll be spending my evening!

Comment by Kelly Philbeck on February 21, 2012 at 11:54am

I am a middle school Literacy Coach, so I do a little bit of everything.  I really want to look toward "reading" media, propaganda, etc. Teaching students to become critical consumers of the messages that surround them each day in ads, movies, music, etc.

Comment by Frank W. Baker on February 21, 2012 at 11:45am

Kelly, I think what you teach should drive your purchases. For example, are you teaching advertising? If so, you might want to consider some resources in that arena. FYI, I maintain a website that contains a large list of books, videos, lesson plans and more related to topics that I consider to be quintessential to media literacy: bias, propaganda, critical viewing, language of film and much more. I urge you to look at my site and send me any questions you might have.  fbaker1346@aol.com 

Comment by Kelly Philbeck on February 21, 2012 at 11:27am

I just received a $500 grant for media literacy materials for my middle school.  Does anyone have any suggestions of some must-have resources?  Media Circles is high on my list!!

Comment by Ryan Goble on January 30, 2012 at 8:40am

Hi Linda - Great stuff you're sharing! Better yet if you can post your question up above in the discussion forum it will have a URL and we can share it with the whole membership for a CS question.  Do consider copying and pasting above as things on the wall tend to get lost over time!  RRG:)

Comment by Linda Cuellar on January 27, 2012 at 7:22pm

Thanks for your help, Ryan, lets see if this works better.

I teach community college level Intro to Mass Communication--five sections, and last fall I had a pretty nice time with my groups. I showed them Michael Wesch's "A Vision of Students Today" and had them create "research questions" for their own topics of interest. One group explored "What is it like living in post 9-11 America today" another group explored dating in the age of social media (see link below)

http://vimeo.com/30475261

I am seeking ways to formulate research questions, ideas from others that have used Facebook for collecting data. We had about a week's worth of research using the library's databases before using Facebook.

Anyone interested in discussing, I'd welcome the input. I may need to add, this was designed as an introduction to research, and recognize that the validity of my student's findings is lacking, but it is a new way to approach research and give them some ownership of the topic by getting original data.

Linda Cuellar, San Antonio

Comment by Ryan Goble on July 10, 2011 at 1:21pm

Awesome thank you!

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