Let’s Play! Let’s Talk! Media Literacy & our Youngest Learners
AML Board Director Diana Maliszewski gave this presentation, “Let’s Play! Let’s Talk! Media Literacy and our Youngest Learners” at the NAMLE (National Association for [...]
Reining in Rapid Righteousness
By Diana Maliszewski with Neil Andersen A common adjective to describe recent media experiences is FAST. The speed at which content is published, shared, commented on, and remixed is quick. What [...]
This Is a Generic Brand Video
Produced by Dissolve, a stock footage company, to promote its catalog of video clips, this video can be read differently by different audiences. The company sells its clips to promotional firms [...]
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A Lesson in Bias
The following article by Lewis Lapham is clearly an opinion piece, a guest column, yet appeared on the front page, which has been traditionally reserved for hard news. Students might debate its [...]
Creating a Space for Critical Literacy in the Classroom
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. [...]
