Some
media literacy recommendations for the holidays
(this is a short list: a complete list of texts can be found on my web site:
http://www.frankwbaker.com/recbooks.htm)
Teachers
What Orwell Didn’t Know: Propaganda And the New Face of American Politics
Uncommon Valor, Common Virtue The Iowa Jima Photograph That Captured America
20 Questions About Youth & The Media
Media Mindfulness: Educating Teens about Faith and Media
Adobe Photoshop Forensics
Media Literacy: A Reader
Buy, Buy Baby: How Consumer Culture Manipulates Parents and Harms Young Minds
unSpun: Finding Facts in A World of Disinformation
Communication Revolution Critical Junctures & The Future of Media
Generation Digital Politics, Commerce, and Childhood in the Age of the Internet
Lesson Plans for Creating Media-Rich Classrooms
Digital Age: Technology Based K-12 Lesson Plans for Social Studies
Teaching Media Literacy: A How To Do it Manual
Developing Scientific Literacy Using News Media In The Classroom
Genre Studies In Mass Media
teachingmedialiteracy.com
Packaging Girlhood: Rescuing our Daughters from Marketers’ Schemes
Social Studies And The Press: Keeping the Beast at Bay?
Reading The Media Media Literacy In High School English
Celluloid Blackboard: Teaching History With Film
Using Pop Culture to Teach Information Literacy
Playing to Learn: Video games in the classroom
Totally Wired: What Teens and Tweens are Really Doing Online
Students
Elementary
Fact Finders Media Literacy Series (Capstone Press)
The Berenstain Bears And the Trouble With Commercials
Secondary
War, Women and the News: How Female Journalists Won the Battle to Cover WWII
Muckrakers: How Ida Tarbell, Upton Sinclair, and Lincoln Steffens Helped Expose Scandal, Inspire Reform, and Invent Investigative Journalism
Storyboards Motion In Art (3rd Ed)
The Big Book of Pop Culture A How-To Guide for Young Artists