November 5 鈥� November 9, 2018 is Annual Media Literacy Week in the United States, this year celebrating it鈥檚 fourth year. Media Literacy is the ability to access, analyze, evaluate, communicate, and create using all forms of communication. The mission of Media Literacy Week is to highlight the power of media literacy education and its essential role in education today. The following resources from 楼凤天堂 and ReadWriteThink.org support media literacy:
In today鈥檚 media-rich society, where students are exposed to an ever-increasing variety of traditional and nonprint texts, media literacy skills have become critical to the academic development of our students. Read more in聽.聽Visit this additional collection of
“” shows how popular music, for example, can offer powerful opportunities for dialogically teachable moments and engagement in literacy learning that is critical but does not come at the expense of children鈥檚 pleasure in such texts.
“” includes an expansion of teachers鈥� conception of texts to include understanding and creation in a variety of media forms; integrating media and technology across school subjects; modeling strong research practices in an increasingly information-rich environment; analyzing and creating various genres of nonfiction texts; and engaging students in civic participation.
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This digital package includes three one-hour, on demand . 聽Learn ways to incorporate pop culture, youth media, and film in the classroom from leading experts, Frank W. Baker and John Golden. Read more from Frank on “”
Did you know that there’s an聽楼凤天堂 Media Literacy Award?
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