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Come PLAY With Us

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.

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Media Literacy is Essential to Health

Nearly half of the adult U.S. population is health illiterate. Media literacy is key to understanding health information and preventing "information obesity."

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Media Literacy is Key to Academic Success

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.

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Media Literacy is the Key to Successful Teaching

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.

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Media Literacy is Empowerment.

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.

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An Education/Technology Tipping Point

Gadwell’s Tipping Point This week I facilitated a compelling discussion among my undergraduate pre-service teachers about the public purposes of education and schooling in the United States. I framed the discussion using the ideas from Malcolm Gladwell’s The Tipping Point as

Educator Development (Not Teacher Preparation)

This week I was invited to the National Convening on Clinical Practice in teacher preparation in Washington, DC. The event brought together university and P-12 partners from around the country to grapple with questions of how to implement new models for clinically based

CyberWise Guide to Media Literacy

This is a simple guide to help parents and educators understand what it means to be media literate in the 21st Century. This is the second video of the CyberWise Guide Series.This Guide helps grownups understand that because technology has

Using Technology to Differentiate Instruction

[download PDF] This highly idiosyncratic Top 10 list was my starting point for a 3-session professional development mini-course (Using Technology to Differentiate Instruction Among Gifted Learners) for teachers in northern New Jersey. There are so many more technologies that could

A Blueprint for Teaching Young Children in a Digital Age

The challenge of improving teacher preparation and ongoing learning led to the creation of the Digital Age Teacher Preparation Council, established by the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop and the Stanford Educational Leadership Institute, with generous support from the Joyce Foundation. Beginning in January