Article by Don Goble, GMLP’s 2011 Charles Klotzer’s Media Literacy Award Recipient It is slowly becoming apparent to educators around the world, that the 21st Century learning model must be different that the 20th century. I certainly believe this to be true. And in the past seven years, I have worked hard to help my [...]
Introducing GMLP’s 2011 Media Literacy Week Guest Contributors
Nineteen St. Louis Region/Bi-State area citizens representing numerous VOICES in our community are sharing their thoughts on WHY Media Literacy is Important. The effort is in celebration of Gateway Media Literacy Partners’ (GMLP’s) Fifth Media Literacy Week, Nov. 6-12, 2011. Guest columnists representing media, education, community activism, theology, youth, science, health, libraries, the arts, and finance comprise the 2011 GMLP Guest Contributor section, this year. The columns were unveiled at the Week’s opening session at St. Louis University’s Walter J. Ong, S.J., Center, Nov. 6. As with last year’s columns, these will remain accessible on GMLP’s web site following Media Literacy ...
Media Literacy Week 2011 – November 6 – 12
Empowering Citizens to Think Critically about Media Messages Fifth Annual Media Literacy Week Media Literacy is the Message: The Legacy of Marshall McLuhan Events Calendar Sunday, November 6 *Media Literacy Week Opening Session: Looking at Our Mediated Landscape Time: 4- 6 p.m. Location: St. Louis University / The Walter J. Ong, SJ, Center for Language, Media and Culture, St. Louis Room of Busch Memorial Center Featured presentations: Lewis and Clark University scholar and poet, Jerry Harp, presents "Electronic Literacy: Ong and McLuhan in the Digital Age," and Gateway Media Literacy Partners’ honors its Charles Klotzer Media Literacy Awardees. ***************************************************************************************************************** Monday, November 7 * Media Literacy in the ...
Midwest Education Technology Conference 2012
The Midwest Education Technology Conference is just a month away! The annual conference takes place at the St. Charles Convention Center February 14-15, with preconference workshops all around St. Louis on Monday, February 13th! There are several strands at METC with different content focuses, including the Library & Media Literacy strand. METC’s Featured Speaker for [...]
St. Louis Jewish Film Festival – Short Film Competition 2012
St. Louis Jewish Film Festival Soliciting Films for Short Film Competition The St. Louis Jewish Film Festival is beginning the second year for its Short Film Competition and is soliciting new and established filmmakers who want to participate. The deadline for letters of intent is February 24, 2012 with an entry fee [...]
A Look Back, a Look Forward: Celebrating McLuhan…All Over Again
Dear Media Literacy Proponents and Enthusiasts, GMLP’s 2011 Media Literacy Week has come to a close. Again, we’re both exhausted and elated. Our celebration of Marshall McLuhan’s centennial birth date was full and memorable. Our partners performed in exemplary fashion. The conversations were lively and thought-provoking, especially given our media climate, today. You may [...]
Introducing GMLP’s 2011 Media Literacy Week Guest Contributors
Nineteen St. Louis Region/Bi-State area citizens representing numerous VOICES in our community are sharing their thoughts on WHY Media Literacy is Important. The effort is in celebration of Gateway Media Literacy Partners’ (GMLP’s) Fifth Media Literacy Week, Nov. 6-12, 2011. Guest columnists representing media, education, community activism, theology, youth, science, health, libraries, the arts, and [...]
Deciphering Marketing in New Media
By Tim Rodgers of Rodgers Townsend “Resplendent and unfading is wisdom, and she is readily perceived by those who love her, and found by those who seek her.” Wisdom 6:12 The ancient Book of Wisdom might seem an odd source of inspiration for a 21st-century dissertation on media literacy, not to mention marketing. So let [...]
The Power to Connect
By Samantha Shanker On the second day of high school I saw the school’s televised announcements. Two upper classmen sat behind a desk and told the events of the day. As soon as they were done, I turned to my friend and told her that I wanted to do that. I knew I could do [...]
The Search for Truth in a Fictional Society
By Dave Senay As a preface to what I’m about to say here, I must stipulate that I accept the concept of “truth” as a subjective pursuit. That is, in part, what makes truth so elusive. Facts, on the other hand, surely should be more accessible. And if we all find the same “facts” as [...]
The Media and Religious Literacy
By David C. Oughton, Ph.D. Marshal McLuhan emphasized how media greatly shapes our self-conception as well as our view of the world. The same can be said about education and religion. But both the media and educational institutions have been failing in helping many people become religiously literate. Print and electronic media have usually either [...]
Media Literacy Cannot be Dissassociated from the History of Our People
A Jewish perspective on media literacy By Larry Levin First, the flames of anti-Semitic prejudice, persecution, violence and genocide have been fanned so often by those in positions of major influence with access to widespread dissemination tools. As a result, there’s a relentless need to set the record straight, whether about old saws like Jews [...]
Media Literacy… to Make Homelessness History
by Rev. Dr. Martin Rafanan Media literacy is a required tool in the efforts to make our community a better place. We need to learn how to analyze and interpret the messages that we hear, see, and experience in the media while at the same time learning to create messages that promote democratic principles, inclusion, [...]
The Magic Juice
Those who are ‘media literate’ have developed a taste for what makes an information source worthy of their trust. by Kurt Greenbaum A few months ago, my son started to come to the dinner table filled with amazing facts to stun and amaze his parents and his older sister. For example, he informed us that [...]
Inspiring Our Youth to Become Media Literate
By Sandra Diamond “Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.” Thomas Jefferson People always ask me where I get my love and passion for the news, voting, and politics. The answer is quite simple—from my family and my teachers. Both helped instill this love and passion that has [...]
Media Literacy: Process & Reflection
By Steven L. Brawley, When President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in 1865, it took days and weeks for the news to reach the farthest corners of the nation. In 2011, it took just seconds for news of Cassie Anthony’s not guilty verdict to reach millions. The talking heads were on airwaves immediately discussing the verdict, [...]
Media Literacy, What’s Your Definition?
By Magi Henderson Of all of the definitions that I found out there in the ether world, I like this one best. It comes from Jane Tallim, Education Specialist, The Provincial Centre of Excellence for Child and Youth Mental Health Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario. “Media literacy is the ability to sift through and analyze the [...]
Raising Media Savvy Kids
Raising Media Savvy Kids by Mary Pat Gallagher, M.A. “On a typical day, 8- to 18-year-olds in this country spend more than 71⁄2 hours (7:38) using media—almost the equivalent of a full work day, except that they are using media seven days a week instead of five. Moreover, since young people spend so much of [...]
Mom, You Have My Sympathies!
by Bea Dageforde I never realized how important media literacy was until I met someone who is media illiterate. In this day and age, a person like that is hard to find. Luckily, I have my mother to help me appreciate my advanced knowledge of media. For years, I texted, emailed attachments and links, and [...]
Media Literacy, Digital Cheerleaders and Techno-Paranoid
By Don Corrigan What is media literacy? Why is media literacy especially important as we enter the new age of digital technology? And 100 years after his birth, what would Marshall McLuhan have to say about media literacy? Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia of the Internet, defines media literacy as “a repertoire of competences” that enable [...]
Serving Up the Message with a Side of Fries
By Suzanne Corbett I’m here for the food. Nope, not looking for a free lunch. I’m craving food news, food edutainment and those tasty tidbits of tweeted food gossip. Call it an obsession but I’m not alone and the media has taken note along with politicians, environmentalists and countless marketers. Each have a long history [...]
Democratization of Media and Media Literacy
By Dan Hellinger We might start with the question of why and how literacy became crucial in a world largely limited to print media, then how the meaning and importance of literacy changed with the advent of electronic media, and then how it literacy changed again with the advent of the Internet. There have always [...]
Beyond the Jargon: The Importance of Economic and Financial Literacy in Discerning Today’s News
By Suzanne Carter Jenkins “There are few, if any, useful ideas in economics that cannot be expressed in clear English. Obscurity rarely, if ever, denotes complexity of subject matter; it never denotes superior scholarship. It usually signifies either inability to write understandable prose or – and more commonly – muddled or incomplete thought.” – Renowned [...]
Critical Reading, Critical Viewing, and the Information Explosion
By Jan Zuke As recently as twenty years ago, the greatest problem facing the researcher was that of finding enough information. Today, the problem is reversed. We go on the Internet, type a word, and are deluged with information of every kind related to that term. Our problem now is not to find enough information, [...]
Consuming Science and Health News!
by Liz de Laparouse All of us have our favorite media sources – the newspapers that we read daily and the websites on our bookmarks bar that we surf to every time we log onto the Internet. When we consume content from these sources, the information often reinforces or challenges our personal beliefs and life [...]
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Midwest Education Technology Conference 2012
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St. Louis Jewish Film Festival – Short Film Competition 2012
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A Look Back, a Look Forward: Celebrating McLuhan…All Over Again
