Gateway Media Literacy Partner’s Education Community Engagement Committee is hosting a special event for K-12 educators, Media Literacy Mini Conference: Pedagogy and Production, at Cooperating School Districts on Friday, June 7 from 7:30 a.m.- 12:30 p.m. This mini conference is open to library media specialists, teachers, technology integration specialists- anyone who wants to exchange ideas and learn [...]
2012 GMLP Contributing Columnists: Why Media Literacy is Important!
Greeting Media Literacy Proponents and Enthusiasts, I am deeply moved and gratified by yet another command performance by a diverse group of regional citizens speaking their views on WHY MEDIA LITERACY IS IMPORTANT . Writing is not easy, even for those who do it every day, yet these participants agreed to honor our deadline to be part of opening festivities for GMLP's Sixth Annual Media Literacy Week, Oct. 28, and to engage our community in a great media literacy conversation for weeks and months to follow. Interesting to note, this is is our third year presenting an array of points of ...
GMLP Media Literacy Mini Conference: Pedagogy & Production – June 7th
Gateway Media Literacy Partner's Education Community Engagement Committee is hosting a special event for K-12 educators, Media Literacy Mini Conference: Pedagogy and Production, at Cooperating School Districts on Friday, June 7 from 7:30 a.m.- 12:30 p.m. This mini conference is open to library media specialists, teachers, technology integration specialists- anyone who wants to exchange ideas and learn more about media literacy. Preregistration is encouraged but not required; seating is limited to 60 attendees. St. Louis educators Don Goble and Julie Smith will keynote this event, followed by two different session times with various resources, programs, and ideas shared from area experts in the field media literacy. Cost for event ...
5 Major Benefits of Media Literacy and its Relationship to the Common Core State Standards
By Don Goble It has become apparent to educators around the world, that the 21st Century learning model must be different that the 20th century. In fact, 46 states around the country are making plans to implement a new initiative called the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). The CCSS standards “are designed to be robust and… Read More http://edreach.us/2013/03/27/5-major-benefits-of-media-literacy-and-its-relationship-to-the-common-core-state-standards/
MARY BETH TINKER COMES TO ST. LOUIS MARCH 11th
Mary Beth Tinker, the student suspended for wearing an armband to class to protest the Vietnam War in the 1960s, will speak about student free expression rights at an evening forum at the Winifred Moore Auditorium at Webster University at 7:30 p.m., Monday, March 11. Tinker’s suspension became the basis for a lawsuit that went [...]
Who Cares if it’s Pink?
by Donald Miller This past December, thirteen-year-old McKenna Pope set out to convince toy manufacturer Hasbro to create a “gender neutral” style of their popular Easy Bake Oven. She did this so that her four-year-old brother, Gavin, could enjoy “baking” without the apparent stigma associated with boys who might use the pink and purple [...]
2012 GMLP Contributing Columnists: Why Media Literacy is Important!
Greeting Media Literacy Proponents and Enthusiasts, I am deeply moved and gratified by yet another command performance by a diverse group of regional citizens speaking their views on WHY MEDIA LITERACY IS IMPORTANT . Writing is not easy, even for those who do it every day, yet these participants agreed to honor our deadline [...]
A Roadmap to Social Connection for Young People
By Sarah Evancho Current middle school students are often referred to as “digital natives,” describing the experience of living in a world where the internet, cell phones, and e-mail have always existed. This life experience gives young people knowledge of using digital media which is unprecedented, and affords them access to information in more efficient [...]
AC/DC and the Case against Idiocy in the Digital Age: How Media Literacy and Civic Literacy Go Hand in Hand
By Wolfgang Althof Democracy cannot be taken for granted. Democrats don’t grow on trees. We need to educate them because a society of idiots cannot survive. Walter Parker, in an article entitled “Teaching against idiocy”, explains that the ancient Greeks used this term differently from what it means today – being stupid. The idiot is [...]
Media Literacy & K-12 Education
~From Education Today, a blog from the Greater St. Louis Cooperating School Districts.
Sixth Annual Media Literacy Week Calendar at a Glance
CABLE IN THE CLASSROOM IS A SPONSOR OF MEDIA LITERACY WEEK Events Calendar – Download the PDF Most events are free and open to the public. Sunday, October 28 * Media Literacy Week Opening Session: “Media and Information Literacy as a Composite Concept: Educating Citizens for Freedom of Expression, Peace and [...]
The Three R’s of Twitter Literacy
By David Sheets Look around, and look closely. Everywhere, from home to school, work to play, we’re witnessing a disturbing change in America, 140 characters at a time. That change, heralded by the advent of social media, and the far-reaching, ever-expanding microblog platform Twitter in particular, demands we satisfy ourselves immediately with digital communications, telling [...]
The Minority Depiction
James Buford, President and CEO, The Urban League In times past, the ideal world was depicted as balanced where all humans no matter race, ethnicity, nor status played a role in equality; we are all equal. Today, as we compare our past to our current state, you could draw the conclusion that we are not [...]
Media Illiteracy: A Look at Access
By Joan Esserman “The basic news literacy argument is that you can’t get the vaccine in someone’s mouth until you get the idea in that someone’s head that the vaccine is good for you,” says Eric Newton, senior adviser to the president, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. Most of us visiting the Gateway [...]
Much More Than the “Toy Department”
By Charles (Chuck) Korr Decades ago, one of the nation’s leading sports writers was asked which part of the newspaper he worked in and he replied, “I’m in the toy department”. That self-deprecating piece of humor has been used to explain why the sports section is a not the place to read “serious” journalism. Media [...]
Confessions and Dismay of a Newspaper Addict
By Vivian Eveloff I grew up reading morning and evening papers. This habit continued in adulthood, but the New York Times became my favorite news source. We saw eye-to-eye. We both cared about the civil rights movement, the war in Viet Nam and changes in the U.S. and the world. Then I began to notice [...]
In Pursuit of International Media Literacy
By Anna Crosslin What are some of the major elements essential for media literacy to flourish? A high literacy rate is one. Since low literacy rates are usually tied to poor economies, low literate countries frequently lack the resources for mass education and technology to improve communication. For example, the tiny, land-locked African nation of [...]
Momentary Communities, Media Literacy and Organized Labor
By Robert Russell Information has become more important than the source of information. –Michael Hall, Director of New Media, New England Sports Network[1] During my recent twenty-year high school reunion, I paused to think about how much media has changed since I graduated. In the heady days of the early 1990s, select few networks ruled [...]
The Cornerstones of our Democratic System
By Chris Miller For those of us who have the privilege of serving on the Board of Directors for the Gateway Media Literacy Partners, a basic understanding of the meaning of media literacy is often taken for granted. It may even be fair to say that sometimes we forget that it is both literacy – [...]
What are the unknown unknowns?
By Repps Hudson Almost every day, I spend an hour or two reading stories, blogs, reports, journal articles on the Internet about an area of the world that interests me most: the Middle East. And I cannot overlook books, that traditional but still very influential medium, and in many cases, the foundation of much of [...]
Media Literacy and Emerging Democracies: The Need for Active and Engaged Citizenship
By Isaac A. Blankson, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Public Relations Chair, Speech Communication Department – SIUE There has never been a more critical need for media literacy skills in the developing world. Media literacy is the ability to access, evaluate, analyze, and produce all types of media messages. Since the 1990s, developing countries in Eastern [...]
Mr. Machine Breaks Down: Lessons about Life from TV
By Kenneth Haller, M.D. I watch way too much TV. I always have. I was one of those kids who would race home from school, throw down my books, and immediately turn on the TV to watch Space Ghost or Speed Racer or Magilla Gorilla. My mom would have to yell, “Kenny, get out of [...]
The Cure for Cancer?…or Media Hype?
By Gary Ratkin, M.D. FACP “The Time Is Now, Together, We Will End Cancer” read the headlines and went on to refer to the “Moon Shots Programs” needed to make a giant leap for patients. The cure for cancer or media hype? Is this 1971, when President Nixon signed the National Cancer Act declaring war [...]
Media Literacy: A Community College Perspective
By Georgia Costello, Ph.D. To at least one concerned legislator, the need for media literacy among prospective college students is underscored by a current TV commercial for Education Connection, a website that “can connect you to the right school for your unique needs and lifestyle – for free.” “The (Education Connection) ad that just [...]
A Roadmap to Social Connection for Young People
By Sara Whitlock Current middle school students are often referred to as “digital natives,” describing the experience of living in a world where the internet, cell phones, and e-mail have always existed. This life experience gives young people knowledge of using digital media which is unprecedented, and affords them access to information in more efficient [...]
The Importance of Health Literacy
By Robert J. Engeszer MLS, AHIP Associate Director, Bernard Becker Medical Library, Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine. Health literacy is defined as: the degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, communicate, process and understand the basic health information and services needed to make appropriate health decisions. –The Patient Protection and [...]
Understanding Situations Happening in Places Other Than Our Own: A Youth Perspective
By Antonia Akrap Connection from across the world can be sought in less than a second. The thirst of being constantly updated can be satisfied with the simple press of a Twitter or Facebook app. Still, the meaning of media is lost within our fast-paced generation of teens. Until the age of 13, the most [...]
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- GMLP Media Literacy Mini Conference: Pedagogy & Production – June 7th
- 5 Major Benefits of Media Literacy and its Relationship to the Common Core State Standards
- MARY BETH TINKER COMES TO ST. LOUIS MARCH 11th
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Who Cares if it’s Pink?
