High quality teacher education requires a complex body of knowledge, skills, and dispositions. Media literacy education can (and should be thought of) as an intentional and essential framework in which to catalyze essential knowledge, skills, and dispositions for 21st-century teacher preparation. The multidimensional nature of media literacy education renders it a meaningful framework with which to contextualize the pursuit of technological proficiency, promote pedagogical excellence, and to magnify the democratic ideals and purposes of public education in the United States. You can read more about this proposed framework in the upcoming issue of Action in Teacher Education (Volume 33, Issue 2) pp. 1-12. In this article I also align the National Educational Technology Standards for Teachers, principles of democratic education, and provides sample pedagogical skills essential to media literacy education.
Building 21st-Century Teachers: An Intentional Pedagogy of Media Literacy Education