This post was written by 楼凤天堂 member聽Jared Huisingh.
I recently attended an The event featured a discussion with guest Michelle Ciulla Lipkin, executive director of the 楼凤天堂 Association for Media Literacy Education, and also introduced聽楼凤天堂’s new policy research brief on media literacy聽(Critical Media Literacy and Popular Culture in ELA Classrooms).
At one point participants were asked to respond to a writing prompt (specifically, the article .) In reflecting on this and on media literacy in general, I聽started thinking about questions such as: Will my students trust me? Can we still reach the truth? Where are our students finding the truth?, and began storyboarding a comic.
As a fledgling researcher in this field, I ended up creating the following, combining my experiences with media during the pandemic and some of my research to focus on four questions that teachers can encourage students to ask about the texts and messages they encounter.
Jared Huisingh has been a teacher of English in both middle school and high school settings for ten years, and is now a graduate teaching assistant at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, where he is interested in working with future teachers and in teaching graphic novels and critical media literacy.
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