Media Literacy - an Online Course
Media Literacy and the Common Core State Standards
To be ready for college, workforce training, and life in a technological society, students need the ability to gather, comprehend, evaluate, synthesize, and report on information and ideas, to conduct original research in order to answer questions or solve problems, and to analyze and create a high volume and extensive range of print and non-print texts in media forms old and new. The need to conduct research and to produce and consume media is embedded into every aspect of today’s curriculum. In like fashion, research and media skills and understandings are embedded throughout the Standards rather than treated in a separate section. From CCSS
Media Literacy - an in-depth investigation
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Today's students are born into a media-saturated society.
Just thirty years ago we had three basic television stations which were not “on the air” 24 hours per day. MTV was new and many believed such a channel would fail. Most theaters were single or double-screened. Our students live in a media-saturated society including over 3,000 television channels worldwide, most of which are available 24 hours/day, multi-screened “movieplexes”, rock concert spectacles, video games, cell phones, PDAs, iPods, iPads, mini-laptop computers, MySpace, Facebook, Second Life and the Internet! |
70% of four-year-olds have used a computer. Even toddlers are utilizing multimedia devices and the Internet through handheld video games such as Leapster, and web sites such as www.PBSkids.org and www.NickJr.com, where preschoolers (including my 2-year-old grandson) easily navigate these electronic, multimedia resources to play games in which they learn colors, numbers, letters, spelling, and more complex tasks from mixing basic colors to creating new colors, problem-solving activities, and reading. Even many of their cartoon characters such as Dora the Explorer, and a character named Pixel on LazyTown utilize the Internet, digital cameras, printers and other technologies! Older students are collaborating, creating, and publishing everything from web sites, to music videos, games and videos online!
What are we doing in schools? The same thing we did 100 years ago – using pencil and paper, worksheets and textbooks (primarily!) and telling the students what to do and what they should know. It’s time to bring classrooms and schools into the 21st world in which our students live!
How do the media impact our children, our society? Do these media messages tell our children what to eat, what to wear, how to spend the money, how to act and speak, how to look? Conversely, how can students utilize the media to create their own messages and to create personal and social change? And finally how can students learn to enjoy the media as a form of entertainment, but also as a tool for understanding history and culture?
What are we doing in schools? The same thing we did 100 years ago – using pencil and paper, worksheets and textbooks (primarily!) and telling the students what to do and what they should know. It’s time to bring classrooms and schools into the 21st world in which our students live!
How do the media impact our children, our society? Do these media messages tell our children what to eat, what to wear, how to spend the money, how to act and speak, how to look? Conversely, how can students utilize the media to create their own messages and to create personal and social change? And finally how can students learn to enjoy the media as a form of entertainment, but also as a tool for understanding history and culture?
Lights, Camera, Action!
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Media literacy is defined as the ability to Access, Analyze, Evaluate and Communicate information in a variety of formats including print and nonprint.
Attend this two-day workshop to conduct an in-depth exploration of media literacy, and learn how to incorporate it into your curriculum.
Answer the questions:
What is Media Literacy? What are the various dimensions and components of Media Literacy?
Why should we teach Media Literacy?
What specific strategies and skills will my students need to develop Media Literacy?
How do I incorporate Media Literacy into my curriculum - in all content areas?
How will Media Literacy result in higher levels of student motivation and achievement, including the standards ?
How can my students learn how to create personal and social change utilizing media tools?
During this workshop you will:
Learn specific Classroom Strategies
Create a Photo Essay
Create a Video
Design a Television Commercial
Create an Action Plan for incorporating Media Literacy into your curriculum.
You will need to a computer with movie editing software, a camera for taking video and still photos, and a way to get the photos from your camera to your computer, and some comfortable walking shoes! Please register an interdisciplinary team if possible.
At this time ,this workshop is being offered only as an on-site event at your school or as an online course.
Attend this two-day workshop to conduct an in-depth exploration of media literacy, and learn how to incorporate it into your curriculum.
Answer the questions:
What is Media Literacy? What are the various dimensions and components of Media Literacy?
Why should we teach Media Literacy?
What specific strategies and skills will my students need to develop Media Literacy?
How do I incorporate Media Literacy into my curriculum - in all content areas?
How will Media Literacy result in higher levels of student motivation and achievement, including the standards ?
How can my students learn how to create personal and social change utilizing media tools?
During this workshop you will:
Learn specific Classroom Strategies
Create a Photo Essay
Create a Video
Design a Television Commercial
Create an Action Plan for incorporating Media Literacy into your curriculum.
You will need to a computer with movie editing software, a camera for taking video and still photos, and a way to get the photos from your camera to your computer, and some comfortable walking shoes! Please register an interdisciplinary team if possible.
At this time ,this workshop is being offered only as an on-site event at your school or as an online course.
