Accelerating Change: What is 21st Century Media Literacy? Unless you're 50 years old or older, your attention has turned away from newspapers, magazines, TV and radio and shifted toward internet and electronic delivery of content. That attention is directed at such diverse areas as using search to find any of the ONE TRILLION sites in Google's index; reading any of the 2.6M articles on Wikipedia; watching some of the 70M+ videos on YouTube; trying to read even a fraction of the 133M blogs; act as one of the 100M users who log on to Facebook daily; or attempt to follow some of the more than 3M tweets sent through Twitter daily. How can a student possibly think critically about the multitude of competing messages and stimuli generated by that flood of content? Of course, this flood is being generated by both actual media organizations but more often by the audience, formerly known as consumers, who have also become producers of media. The current healthcare debate is illustrative of this challenge.
Media Literacy for the 21st Century: Interview with Renee Hobbs, EdD Q: What do you see as vital 21st-century media literacy skills for today’s student, particularly at the middle and high school level? For their instructors? Digital and media literacy is an expanded conceptualization of literacy. There is a constellation of five inter-related competencies that are now needed to participate in contemporary culture. Access skills, including foremost among them listening skills and reading comprehension, but also keyboard, mouse and interface skills, understanding hyperlinking and digital space and using effective search and find strategies. Analysis skills include the ability to identify the author, purpose and point of view of a message; evaluate credibility and quality; and recognize and resist stereotypes. Q: How would you characterize the success of current media literacy education programs in place at the pre-college level? Q: What are some take-away messages for media literacy education that you have found from your own research?
alfamed The Fake-News Fad: Let it Fade | Opinion Have you heard the news? We have a new four-letter word featuring an “F” and a “K” in our lexicon: It is F-A-K-E. The 2016 Presidential election campaign made fake news one of the hottest topics in—ahem—the news. For those who are not in education, the interest in fake news exploded during the 2016 presidential election campaign. As a consequence of its findings, SHEG offered the following recommendations to educators: Students as early as elementary school must learn how to distinguish online ad content from news content (p. 10).Students should learn to question everything they read, hear, and see in the media. UNESCO’s Five Laws of Media and Information Literacy. This should be great news (no pun intended) to the 62 percent of Americans who, according to the Pew Research Center, get their news from social media sources. evidence-based learning isn’t new Research and the CCSS. Emphasizing evidence-based learning is not a new instructional priority. It has always been about learning.
Media Literacy Fundamentals What is Media Literacy? Media are powerful forces in the lives of youth. Music, TV, video games, magazines and other media all have a strong influence on how we see the world, an influence that often begins in infancy. The importance of media education in Canada can be seen through the inclusion of media literacy outcomes in provincial and territorial curricula. This section has been created to clarify what media literacy is all about, and to offer practical suggestions to help you make media education happen What is Media Education? Media education is the process through which individuals become media literate – able to critically understand the nature, techniques and impacts of media messages and productions. Media education acknowledges and builds on the positive, creative and pleasurable dimensions of popular culture. For example: Who is the audience of a media production and why? Why Teach Media Literacy? Why teach media literacy? Key Concepts for Media Literacy 1. Ask: 2. Ask: 3. 4. 5.
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What is Media Literacy? | Media Literacy Project For centuries, literacy has referred to the ability to read and write. Today, we get most of our information through an interwoven system of media technologies. The ability to read many types of media has become an essential skill in the 21st Century. Media Literacy Project’s approach to media literacy education comes from a media justice framework. Media literacy skills can help youth and adults: - Develop critical thinking skills - Understand how media messages shape our culture and society - Identify target marketing strategies - Recognize what the media maker wants us to believe or do - Name the techniques of persuasion used - Recognize bias, spin, misinformation, and lies - Discover the parts of the story that are not being told - Evaluate media messages based on our own experiences, skills, beliefs, and values - Create and distribute our own media messages - Advocate for media justice Language of Persuasion Introduction to Media Literacy
School Libraries Fight Fake News Fake news has been all over the real news lately. From Mark Zuckerburg to Pizzagate, fake news is a huge problem, and it’s not going away on its own. According to a recent study from Stanford University, approximately 80 percent of students struggled to evaluate the credibility of an online resource. This is a little disheartening, since this is a huge part of what we teach as school librarians, and it appears we’ve not been very effective. There really isn’t a magic formula or checklist that replaces the critical thinking needed to determine if information is credible. Based on the recent surge of fake news and the results of the Stanford study, we decided to overhaul our website evaluation lessons by doing the following: Changing website evaluation to resource evaluation. Fake news has always been around, but now it feels more threatening. Completed worksheet from the Stanford study Author: Mica Johnson I’m a school librarian at Farragut Middle. Like this: Like Loading...
14 Resources on Making the Most of Homework We have all seen headlines like, “Are Young Kids Doing Too Much Homework?” and “Homework: Is It Worth the Hassle?” but while this debate continues, homework is a part of K–12 school life for the majority of educators and students. Find strategies and tools that discuss ways to make it more meaningful for students and manageable for teachers with this selection of resources just released on ASCD myTeachSource®. For more resources on effective homework strategies, go to ASCD myTeachSource and sign up for a free two-week trial. Free How We Can Fix the Biggest Problem Created by Homework (Podcast) Join Jonathan Bergmann and host Matt Wachel in this ASCD Learn. One-Size-Doesn’t-Fit-All Homework (Educational Leadership) Cathy Vatterott explains how individualized homework can put new life into assignments. Helping Students Practice and Deepen Their Understanding of New Knowledge (Book Chapter) This chapter from The Art and Science of Teaching by Robert J. My Students Don’t Do Homework from Edutopia
Media Literacy David Considine, chair of the first National Media Literacy Conference in 1995, defines media literacy as the ability to access, analyze, evaluate and create information in a variety of media formats including print and non-print. It is mindful viewing, and reflective judgement. It is a new, expanded view of traditional literacy. Media and Information Literacy for Educators Media Literacy Online Project and Media Literacy Review from the University of Oregon is designed to meet the informational needs of educators from around the world. Media and Information Literacy for Students Citing Electronic Resources from the Internet Public Library Nine Information Literacy Standards for Student Learning Best Practice Examples for Older Students from Wisconsin Library Association's Information Literacy Committee Media Literacy Concepts for High School Students Media Literacy Links for students at Rosemont School Renee Hobbs Media Literacy Project Media Literacy: What Students Should Know