Empowering Citizens to Think Critically about Media Messages Fifth Annual Media Literacy Week Media Literacy is the Message: The Legacy of Marshall McLuhan Events Calendar Sunday, November 6 *Media Literacy Week Opening Session: Looking at Our Mediated Landscape Time: 4- 6 p.m. Location: St. Louis University / The Walter J. Ong, SJ, […]
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Media Literacy Week 2011 – November 6 – 12
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Online Resources for Teaching Media Literacy
By Frank W. Baker In 1998, I created the Media Literacy Clearinghouse website because I wanted to offer K-12 educators (and others) an online venue for locating appropriate resources that would help in the teaching of media literacy. Thousands of teachers have discovered the resources offered there. Over time, the site has grown and includes […]
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President’s Message: National Core Standards…..What Happened?
Early in June, the long-awaited national education core standards were released. A lot of hard work, burning-of-midnight-oil and precious time have been expended toward this 21st-century effort to jump-start education in America . While we applaud the hard work, especially this recognition in the common core English Language (EL) Standards of critical-thinking skills as they relate to […]
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Teaching Media Literacy Through Magazines
By Frank W. Baker (Media Literacy Clearinghouse) This spring, the magazine industry promoted itself with an advertising campaign which basically said ever since the rise of the Internet and other technologies, magazine subscriptions have increased. In other words, the rumors of the demise of the print magazine are premature. The logo for the campaign was: […]
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NCTE Commission on Media Calls for Media Literacy Award Nominations
GMLP’s good friend and supporter, Frank Baker alerted us to this opportunity: The NCTE Commission on Media is proud to announce that it will award the fifth annual Media Literacy Award at the NCTE Annual Convention in Orlando. Previous award winners are profiled here. Deadline for the 2010 award is Wednesday, June 30, 2010. The award winner will […]
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Video: Media Literacy Chat with Frank Baker and Andrew Smith
During last year’s GMLP Media Literacy Week, Lindenwood University was home to a few of the events during the week. While we had Frank Baker in town, the folks at LUTV used this opportunity to record an episode of the show, Mixed Media, to further discuss the topic of media literacy. Only recently did I […]
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Media Literacy: Critical Thinking for the Information Age – A report from the 2010 Midwest Educational Technology Conference
By Frank W. Baker (Media Literacy Clearinghouse) I found myself, once again, in the St. Louis area on Wednesday February 10, where I was one of the featured speakers at the 2010 Midwest Educational Technology Conference at the St. Charles Convention Center. My two hour presentation came at the end of the two day event […]
Media Literacy Week 2013
- Why Media Literacy is Important – 2013 Guest Contributors
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Understanding America via Media Literacy: A Chinese Student’s View
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Inclusion, Acceptance and Equality
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Making the Pieces Fit: One Journalist’s View
