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Media Literacy
link to recommended texts; streaming videos see also recommended periodicals, videos listed below |
Background
and articles for basic introduction and understanding newly added links in red |

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Ofcom is pleased to announce the publication of ‘Switch On!’, a learning resource designed to support education for media literacy, and aimed particularly at professionals teaching or caring for people with learning disabilities. |
| Teacher's Library For Media Literacy: This page is a resource for teachers to use in teaching media literacy. Featured here is curriculum from Boston teachers, teaching aids, and internet resources for further exploration. | |
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Media Studies (Saskatchewan) In this course, you will develop the knowledge, skills, and disposition necessary to understand and use mass media as informed and active students. You will discover the nature of mass media, the messages contained in mass media, the techniques used by them, and the impact of these media. |
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Guide to Effective Instruction: |
The Ontario Ministry of Education has published a number of documents under the title Guides to Effective Instruction. Released in 2008, Volume 7 of the Guide to Effective Literacy Instruction (Gr 4-6) covers media literacy. It contains 8 detailed lessons for making and analysing a variety of media texts including PSA's, creating and reading a website, etc. You can download the whole document here. |
| The following activities were created by teachers and align to California state curriculum standards for ELD, VPA, ELA. Teachers were asked to come up with arts activities and integrate them with the Five Key Questions of Media Literacy and the state standards. Teachers came up with these activities very easily, demonstrating that the teachers had successfully internalized how to integrate media literacy and the arts into the state standards. | |
| Project Look Sharp is a media literacy initiative of Ithaca College to provide materials, training and support for the effective integration of media literacy with critical thinking into classroom curricula at all education levels. Link to its curriculum. | |
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Finally, Assignment:
Media Literacy, the comprehensive
three-volume curriculum created by Renee
Hobbs is available online. This is the
18-unit curriculum developed for
Maryland State Department of Education
and Discovery Communications, Inc. You
can
download the PDF files with lesson plans
and reproducibles for each unit and
use the videos to teach media literacy
in conjunction with social studies,
language arts and health education
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IFCs Media Project: Never before has so much media been available to so many people, on so many different platforms. And yet despite how much information we have access to, more and more of it is controlled by fewer and fewer corporations. That means it's our responsibility to make sure we understand how we consume, produce and share media - be it email, our favorite show or a Facebook page. After all, educated people are the backbone of a healthy democracy.
With this in
mind, we've
put together
this
handbook
with three
goals in
mind. First,
we want to
introduce
you to some
of the key
terms used
in media.
Second,
we're giving
you media
literacy
links and
information
so that you
can be as
informed as
possible.
Don't take
our word for
anything!
See what
others are
saying about
media
literacy.
And finally
we've
highlighted
a few key
milestones
in media
history that
have brought
us to where
we are now.
We hope this
information
is useful
and we hope
that you
enjoy it.
Section One: Terms Section Two: Resources Section Three: Milestones |
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Literacy for the 21st Century: An Overview & Orientation Guide to Media Literacy Education (Center for Media Literacy) |
1st Edition: Construction 2nd Edition: Construction & Deconstruction |
| An excellent backgrounder on the Core Concepts and Critical Thinking Questions; in addition guidance on teaching graphical texts, visual texts and advertisements. | |
| This toolkit includes six media literacy lesson plans designed for students in grades 4 through 8. The guide combines media literacy concepts with activities that encourage students to ask questions and think about the influence of media in their lives. | |
| This website examines media messages, fake pictures in the media, and how the media create or influence gender stereotypes. | |
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A comprehensive 190 page UNESCO publication with excellent introduction to the all the elements and arguments of contemporary media literacy and media education. The document comprises; a proposal for a modular curriculum, a handbook for teachers, a handbook for students, a handbook for parents, a handbook for ethical relations with professionals and an internet literacy handbook. |
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Global Media Literacy: |
This Global Media Literacy course is designed to help students and faculty appreciate distinctive international media models and agendas. The course focuses predominately on those media that transmit news and breaking information and uses cross-cultural and cross-regional analysis to assess, analyze and evaluate the stories the media tell. |
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Media Moments |
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University of Texas Health Science Center |
Analyzing Media Unit -
Sequence of Five Activities Topic:
Media Evaluation
This sequence of activities is
designed to develop media evaluation skills so that students can
critically evaluate advertising about health-related topics such as
sleep aids, diet, exercise, and prescription and over-the-counter
medications. Topic: Stereotype and Bias This review has been designed to examine attitudes and sterotypes about aging. In the review, the word “older” or “old ” refers to one who is physically, verbally, and or occupationally described as elderly. “Character” refers to any story member who speaks one or more words or who clearly participates in the storyline, even if he/she does not speak. |
Recommended DVD/videos:
Writing About Media
(Media Education Foundation, 2008)
Media Literacy Toolbox
(New Mexico ML Project, 2008)
Understanding Media Literacy: Asking MORE Questions
(Carmelina Films, 2008)
Media Smart Strategies for Analyzing Media
(McDougal Littel, 2007)
Understanding Media Literacy (2007) Films Media Group
Media Literacy
For Teens
(2007)
produced in short segments--all designed to introduce
the critical thinking questions
to the high school audience ( "I like this one." Frank
Baker)
Teaching Media Literacy: Asking Questions (2006)
Research Skills: Media Literacy
(23 minutes) Grades 7-12
Producer: Schlessinger Media Distributor: LibraryVideo.com
Media Literacy:
The Audience
Media Literacy:
Creating Media
Media Literacy:
Ethics
(all of the above produced by First Light Video
Publishing)
Discovering Language Arts:
Beginning Media Literacy (3rd-5th) ISBN: 1-59527-792-7
Producer: Discovery Education
Intermediate Media Literacy (6th-8th) ISBN: 1-59527-694-7
Analyzing Media Influences
(9th-12th) ISBN: 1-59527-804-4
Assignment Media Literacy
Elementary
Middle
High
Scanning Television 2 "I know of no other product as good as
Scanning Television....
Rich, relevant content, packaged in a way that makes it easy for classroom
teachers
to integrate into instruction. Two thumbs up...way up!" (Frank Baker's
original testimonial)
Media Literacy: TV- What You
Don't See (In The Mix series)
The New Normal: Get the News?
(In The Mix series)
Tuning Into Media: Literacy For the Information Age
Know TV
promotes analysis of non-fiction TV by students in grades 6-12
Recommended
texts; textbooks
Recommended
journals/periodicals: see also SAGE's
Communications & Media Studies titles
(related recommendations
for K-12
here)
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