By Dr. John Urkevich, Executive Director, Cooperating School Districts of Greater St. Louis Employers today are stressing the importance of not only being technology savvy, but also media literate. One of the biggest challenges in media literacy is to locate and evaluate information and recognize and understand the source. The ability to clearly focus on […]
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Media Literacy Critical in Today’s Schools
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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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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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NAMLE 2011 CONFERENCE – Philadelphia, PA – JULY 22-25
Mark your calendars for NAMLE’s 2011 Conference in Philadelphia!
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Becker Library to co-host traveling exhibit “Not a Cough in a Carload”
The Bernard Becker Medical Library and the Farrell Learning and Teaching Center will co-host the traveling exhibit titled “Not a Cough in a Carload: The Campaign by the Tobacco Industry to Hide the Hazards of Smoking” beginning Monday, March 1 through Friday, April 30. The exhibit has been created by Robert K. Jackler, M.D., the […]
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Careers in Media Literacy (2010)
Increasingly, students across the U.S. are developing a passionate interest in the field of media literacy. But although these students clearly understand the value of this area of study, they are faced with a practical consideration—namely, what careers are available for those who study media literacy. Generally speaking, this discipline prepares individuals for any profession […]
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
FCC Extends Comment Period for Media Literacy Efforts
by Jessica Z. Brown on March 9, 2010 in President's Message and Member News
Gateway Media Literacy Partners, Inc., has notified its members and the greater bi-state region of the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC’s) Notice of Inquiry (NOI) regarding MB Docket NO. 09-194 on ‘In the Matter of Empowering Parents and Protecting Children in an Evolving Media Landscape’, whose comment period is now extended to May 1. GMLP, a member of […]