Using Still Images to Understand and Create
by Mark-Jeffery Deans, University of the West Indies This lesson was created as the culminating project in the The Association for Media Literacy’s Spring 2022 Additional Qualifications [...]
by Mark-Jeffery Deans, University of the West Indies This lesson was created as the culminating project in the The Association for Media Literacy’s Spring 2022 Additional Qualifications [...]
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The following observations are designed to serve as probes and provocations to uncover the essence of some important ideas about media education and media studies. Based largely on the experience [...]
It seems that more than ever, we need the resources of global education and the insights of media literacy to help our young people gain the knowledge and develop the values, attitudes and skills [...]
A 3-Week Unit for Grade 9 (Academic)
My father had to complete grade 11 by correspondence because his teacher had completed only grade 10. While his mother was keenly interested in and supportive of her children's education, she [...]
Teachers are often reluctant to admit it, but one of the most common reasons why many are hesitant to bring media work into their courses is their fear of appearing to know less than their students.
Advocates for the inclusion in the curriculum of comics and graphic novels as 'literary' works are no doubt right about their potential to engage young readers, and perhaps even reluctant ones. [...]
True popular culture (not necessarily the mainstream, commercial products that call themselves 'pop culture') is made from within and below, not imposed from within or above. It is always a [...]
Purpose: To have students understand that the world around them can be read as a media text, and therefore interpreted as such; and to encourage critical literacy in that reading/interpretation. [...]
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#medialiteracy is fun.
How does this Google Nose video use codes and conventions convincingly?
Media construct versions of reality.
Media contain aesthetic values.
@A_M_L_
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-P6jEMtixY&t=112s
Media literacy is incredibly important. Both for print media and beyond. Students need to be able to communicate in many forms and to think critically about what they encounter and create. #K12Media @A_M_L_ https://twitter.com/teacher2teacher/status/1542999754342367232
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What advice would you share with a new English T?
Shout out tips for @amber_klee as she prepares for her first day of teaching high school! 📝
#InstantPD #NewTeacher #HSchat #FirstYearTeacher
#k12media #medialiteracy amazing thread about credible sources https://twitter.com/MartynvanBuren/status/1541739999133331457
This is one of the best stories I’ve edited at Sixth Tone, put together by the inimitable @peiyue_jess : much of Chinese Wiki’s coverage of Russian history turned out to be fake last week, made up over ten years by an aspiring historian (1/several) https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1010653/she-spent-a-decade-writing-fake-russian-history.-wikipedia-just-noticed.-
@A_M_L_ #medialiteracy https://twitter.com/msolomonteacher/status/1541976822409314306
Ms. Solomon (she/her)@msolomonteacher
Really excited for this one. It’s a passion project in so many ways! I can’t wait to have these conversations. #ELANDestreaming #K12Media #OntEd https://twitter.com/ELANontario/status/1541768383242424320