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 [...]
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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 [...]
What is the Medium? An Art Enthusiast’s Perspective
By Nancy Kranzberg Change is scary but inevitable, but whether it scares you or not, Marshall McCluhan was right on the mark. He of course is known for coining the expressions “the medium is the message” and “the global village” and predicted the world wide web years before we knew from www.com. Shirley Baker,Vice Chancellor for [...]
Media Education Foundation offers reduced pricing to Media Literacy Week Participants
We at the Media Education Foundation appreciate all the work that you do to teach students to reflect critically and thoughtfully on media images and systems. We are pleased to offer special reduced pricing on our films, exclusive to participants of Media Literacy Week. You can order MEF films at the very special price [...]
Left Bank Books & Media Literacy Week 2011
Left Bank Books will carry a variety of Media Literacy books in honor of GMLP’s 2011 Media Literacy Week!
Process to Making a Video – For Serious
Article By Don Goble For Serious – You are cordially invited to honor and engage our tech savvy students of the 21st Century. Please join in the transformation of education, by allowing students to create videos to illustrate comprehension of your subject matter. Read more
Marshall McLuhan, Media Literacy & The Dirty Digger
An article of interest from our friend, Don Corrigan…
2011 NAMLE Conference: First Time Attendees
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.William Butler Yeats
For first time attendees, the conference can be overwhelmingly informative. With so many events, demonstrations, and niche interest workshops, it can be difficult to get the most out of your experience. Thankfully the conference committee for the sixth national conference have taken the guess work out of decision-making with an easy-to-follow coding system for sessions, [...]
Prepare yourself to think globally and act locally.
Today marks the first day of the 2011 NAMLE Conference – Global Visions, Local Connections: Voices in Media Literacy Education. Although the day is mostly composed of pre-conference events, which cost extra but are completely worth it, there are also events for all registered attendees. Pre-conference workshops begin at 9:00 am. It’s not too late [...]
Eric Mink comments on Keith Olbermann
As many media-watchers are well aware, personality Keith Olbermann, formerly of MSNBC, joined Current TV, following the highly-publicized departure ( he quit ) from the wildly popular MSNBC gig. Our town’s Eric Mink, featured on this web site from time-to-time, recently was asked to by-line a piece on the controversial Olbermann, for TVWorthWatching.com. Olbermann’s new political [...]
Why Core Standards Must Embrace Media Literacy By Richard Beach & Frank W. Baker
Today’s young people are growing up in a world full of smartphones, texting, YouTube, Internet access, and instant entertainment and information. But while they may be media-savvy, we maintain that they are not necessarily media- or digital-literate. Multiple studies have shown that many young people lack the media and information-literacy skills they need to be [...]
National Council of Teachers of English accepting award applications for media literacy education
Each year, the National Council of Teachers of English, in association with the “Media & Digital Literacies Collaborative” recognizes one educator for excellence in media literacy education. The winning teacher will receive a $2,000 check underwritten by the Beck Foundation. The check will be awarded in time to use for reimbursement to attend the November NCTE Chicago [...]
New Class! Integrating Media Literacy Across the Curriculum
Little hands need digital learning, too! Come learn how to help promote safe, effective student work in the 21st century. In this class, we will learn about how to integrate media literacy and digital technology across the K-12 education curriculum. Using digital media to help build critical thinking and communication skills is a life long [...]
Frank Baker’s Children’s Film Workshop Video
Here’s a message from Frank Baker, regarding the production of this video: “I have been working with a local (Columbia SC) elementary school which specializes in the arts. As way of additional background, the new Visual & Performing teaching standards in South Carolina include media art/media literacy for the first time. So, I’ve been conducting some workshops [...]
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