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2013
MAY
 

The book is the first publication of the UNESCO-UNAOC Media and Information Literacy and Intercultural Dialogue Global Network of Universities (MILID). This initiative is one of the direct outcomes of the First UNAOC Forum (Madrid 2008), when several universities approached the UNAOC for support towards the creation of a Global network of universities focusing on Media Literacy.

APRIL

A View Through Barbed Wire  "The Boy In The Striped Pajamas" (Screen Education, Issue 69, Autumn 2013)

"Teaching Media Literacy with Technology" (Learning & Leading With Technology, ISTE, May 2013)

 

Young children—even toddlers—are spending more and more time with digital technology. What will it mean for their development? (April 2013 cover story)

Politicians are manipulating what you see in the news, published  April 3,2013, Middleweb.com

MARCH
 

William Kist helps make the connection between film, new literacies & the Common Core teaching standards in this essay published in the March issue of ASCD's Educational Leadership

FEBRUARY
20  Part 2 of Teaching The Oscars (SLJ)

18   Frank Baker Talks Teaching The Oscars: Part 1

3    Teaching Students About Film Careers & Cinema Literacy, Middleweb

JANUARY
30  Thanks (again) to Joyce Valenza for recommending my Super Bowl webpage

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    Movies Are Not History (And They Will Never Be)   USA Today

     Teaching Visual Media Literacy, Part 2,  MiddleWeb

7   Teaching Visual Media Literacy  Part 1 of 2 MiddleWeb.com




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