This is a book about literacy in the broadest and most inclusive sense of the word, a book about helping our students acquire the key competencies they need if they are to be effective communicators in today's increasingly digital and media-saturated world. The founders of the "Powerful Voices for Kids" program offer: ideas for promoting digital and media literacy through a variety of technology tools; strategies for activating critical-thinking skills when viewing symbolic forms; and staff development models you can use to set up your own digital and media literacy initiative.
Discovering Language Arts: Intermediate Media Literacy
Leading authority on media literacy education shows secondary teachers how to incorporate media literacy into the curriculum, teach 21st-century skills, and select meaningful texts.
Declaring herself a provocateur among thought leaders in digital media, boyd questions the value of media literacy education as a response to the current crises around fake news, and theorizes that the focus on critical thinking about ...
At the forefront in its field, this Handbook examines the theoretical, conceptual, pedagogical and methodological development of media literacy education and research around the world.
[is] the necessity for the participation of every mature human being in the formation of the values that regulate the living of men together” (p. ... First, it captures the notion that communication technology (media) is not neutral.
Some wonderful resources for lesson plans, like Selma Wassermann's Teaching for Thinking Today: Theory, Strategies, ... Also, websites from other countries, like Canada's Media Awareness Network (http://media-awareness.ca), include many ...
Developing an ethics of youth media production using media literacy, identity & modality. ... Discovering media literacy: Teaching digital media and popular culture in elementary school. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. James, C., Davis, K., ...
In D. Wyse, L. Hayward, & J. Pandya (Eds.), The SAGE handbook of curriculum, assessment and pedagogy. London, UK: Sage Publications Ltd. Zacher, J. (2008). Analyzing children's social positioning and struggles for recognition in a ...
DIY Media in the Classroom: New Literacies across Content Areas. New York: Teachers College Press. Hall, S. 1992: “Encoding/Decoding.” In Culture, Media, Language, ed. S. Hall, D. Hobson, A. Lowe, and P. Willis, 128–38.
Highlighting how screen media impact cognitive development, the book addresses a topic often neglected amid societal concerns about pathological media use and vulnerability to media effects, such as aggression, cyber-bullying and Internet ...