Come see what Project Literacy Among Youth (PLAY) has to offer educators, parents, and kids. You are never too old or too young to become media literate or foster media literacy in others.
Nearly half of the adult U.S. population is health illiterate. Media literacy is key to understanding health information and preventing "information obesity."
If you can access, analyze, evaluate, produce, communicate, and act upon a variety of media forms, you have the critical habits of mind and skills of inquiry needed to be successful in the 21st century.
Teachers who implement methods that are inquiry-based, technologically-proficient, and grounded in critical thinking provide students with the habits of mind and skills needed to successfully navigate life beyond school.
Children are consuming screen-based information upwards of 9 hours a day. Find out how you can make the most of screen time and foster the best age-appropriate learning.
Many have heard of the 2006 Canadian Dove “Evolution” campaign where the viewer gets to see up close and personal the evolution of a female (through physical and digital enhancement) into what the public sees as a model. If you
In case you missed it, the Manitoba Association for Computing Educators (ManACE) created this video in celebration of Media Awareness Week back in 2009. It’s a nice piece of eye and ear candy that gets the conversation started about the
This is a highly thoughtful 1-hour PBS feature of 5 innovative schooling projects in search for the purpose of education in the 21st century. It’s important to recognize that digital technologies are merely the means (not the ends) of schooling
One of my favorite media educators and researchers is Renee Hobbs of the Media Education Lab at Temple University (among other ventures). Her Powerful Voices for Kids project is a Philadelphia school-university partnership that strengthens children’s abilities to think for
This is an interesting examination of the One Laptop Per Child global initiative and the need for a larger framework for understanding technology. It is by Dr. Marcus Leaning at the University of Winchester.