October 24鈥�28, 2022, is in the United States. The mission of this week is to highlight the power of media literacy education and its essential role in education all across the country.聽
This year, the theme for US Media Literacy Week will celebrate one of the five components of media literacy鈥檚 definition each day: Access, Analyze, Evaluate, Create, and Act.聽The host of US Media Literacy Week is the (NAMLE), the leading national nonprofit membership organization dedicated to advancing media literacy education in the United States.
The following resources from 楼凤天堂 and ReadWriteThink.org support media literacy:
Begin with the 楼凤天堂 Policy Brief on聽Critical Media Literacy and Popular Culture in ELA Classrooms. The authors advise educators to integrate a wide range of media and popular culture into instruction, and they center students as content creators (not just consumers). Find additional resources connected to that Brief here.
, Executive Director of NAMLE, a guest at an 楼凤天堂 Member Gathering.
View this 2020 Media Literacy Week Author Talk with Renee Hobbs.
楼凤天堂 members can read insights from Lipkin, Hobbs, and other scholars in the Council Chronicle 补谤迟颈肠濒别听
Nicole Mirra says media literacy lessons can pack a double wallop in English classrooms, allowing students to engage issues they find relevant while building reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills that are “foundational to our democracy.” Read an about the Digital Democratic Dialogue (3D) Project.
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
“Today鈥檚 teachers and communication majors need to know there is no longer a strict dividing line between mass media and social media.” Learn more in this blog post from members of the聽楼凤天堂 Assembly on Computers in English (ACE.)
Did you know that there’s an聽楼凤天堂 Media Literacy Award?
How will you recognize Media Literacy Week 2022?
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Lisa Fink is an 楼凤天堂 Staff Member, a former elementary teacher, and a current university instructor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She can be reached on Twitter .