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Media Literacy Week 2011 – November 6 – 12
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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2011 NAMLE Conference: First Time Attendees
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.William Butler Yeats
For first time attendees, the conference can be overwhelmingly informative. With so many events, demonstrations, and niche interest workshops, it can be difficult to get the most out of your experience. Thankfully the conference committee for the sixth national conference have taken the guess work out of decision-making with an easy-to-follow coding system for sessions, […]
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Prepare yourself to think globally and act locally.
Today marks the first day of the 2011 NAMLE Conference – Global Visions, Local Connections: Voices in Media Literacy Education. Although the day is mostly composed of pre-conference events, which cost extra but are completely worth it, there are also events for all registered attendees. Pre-conference workshops begin at 9:00 am. It’s not too late […]
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Media Literacy Is a Subversive Term!
by Charles Klotzer, Founder and Editor Emeritus, The St. Louis Journalism Review Media literacy is a subversive, even a revolutionary term. It is subversive in its struggle to overthrow the established norms of communication; it seeks to search beyond the surface message. It is revolutionary in its demand that citizens, all citizen, understand what the […]
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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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A Comprehensive Definition of Media Literacy
Art Silverblatt, Ph.D Professor, Webster University A Comprehensive Definition of Media Literacy One of the major challenges facing the discipline of media literacy involves its name recognition. This abundance of definitions adds to the confusion surrounding the focus of the discipline. Although media literacy is included in the educational standards of all fifty states in […]
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Resource for Teachers on Copyright and Fair Use in the Classroom
Now that the spring semester is over, I’m in the process of retooling my courses for the fall. While catching up on my favorite sites today, I came across this link from the Temple University’s Media Education Lab. Those of us media educators know how important the use of copyrighted material is for learning about […]
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Parent Perspective: The game of ‘Telephone’ Digital Style
In March, my school district received an alert from Homeland Security that there was some type of threat intended for schools. The alert was very vague and in the end, turned out to be intended for schools in the Washington D.C. area. But, at the time the alert was issued, schools had no better information […]
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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
