PBS provides teachers with excellent tools to both create and consume media content. From Arthur’s Guide to Media Literacy to FRONTLINE segments on what it means to be a human in a 21st Century digital world—there is something here for
Building 21st-Century Teachers: An Intentional Pedagogy of Media Literacy Education
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
Going Hollywood: Media Literacy Education through Filmmaking
In March I had the pleasure of attending the International Family Film Festival at Raleigh Studios in Hollywood, CA to moderate a panel of educators and film makers on the topic, “Media literacy: Is it ‘good’ for us?” I was
Media Literacy—Parody as Empowerment
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
Show Your Media Literacy
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