Concepts: Media Literacy

In 2003, 2005 and 2006, I conducted “Best Practices” workshops for K-12 teachers on behalf of the SC State Department of Education. My teaching approach is three-pronged: start with visual literacy; secondly address advertising; and lastly the moving images. My workshops involve close reading media messages and include many hands-on, interactive activities. I welcome inquiries regarding my professional development workshops for schools/districts/conferences. Frank W Baker

See also: Short Video Clips for Teaching Media Literacy

Available curricula online:

YouthLearn Media Literacy Toolkit	UNESCO MIL Curriculum For Teachers	Teacher’s Guide to Teaching Media Literacy	download materials here .	Media: Between The Lines
SPOT Media Literacy Primer Book	Toolkit: Media & Digital Education	Truth in Reality Media Advocacy Toolkit	new series of lessons	MediaLit Moments: lesson plan archive
Link to curriculum.		Birth of Image: A Concise Guide To Media Literacy	Create Powerful Media	Getting Inside the Box: A Media Literacy Toolkit for Adult Learners
Media Revealed: Understanding Our Media Diet	Know TV	Media Literacy Survival Guide	PBS NewsHour Extra. Link to curriculum.	‘Switch On!’
	Teacher’s Library For Media Literacy	Media Studies (Saskatchewan)	A Guide to Effective Instruction: Media Literacy (Ontario)	Project SMARTart
download the PDF files		Literacy for the 21st Century (CML): 1st Edition: Construction 2nd Edition: Construction & Deconstruction	Think Literacy: Cross Curricular Approaches, 7-12 (Ontario)	Common Sense in the Classroom: A Media Literacy Guide
Media Studies Curricula	Topic: Media Evaluation Topic: Stereotype and Bias	Mind Over Media (Court TV)	Media Literacy For Global Citizenship

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 (part one; part two)

Know TV promotes analysis of non-fiction TV by students in grades 6-12