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ReadWriteThink: Media Messages
n his memoir Dreams from My Father, Obama describes an incident in which he, as a young boy, "came across the picture in Life magazine of the black man who had tried to peel off his skin" (51). Seeing the devastating effect negative messages about being African American had on this man, Obama "began to notice that [Bill] Cosby never got the girl on I Spy, that the black man on Mission Impossible spent all his time underground. [He] noticed that there was nobody like [him] in the Sears, Roebuck Christmas catalog ... and that Santa was a white man" (52).
Comprehensive literacy lesson plans
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Online youth need critical thinking skills
Today's media environment provides an opportunity--and responsibility--for parents and schools to teach critical thinking. Not only must young people learn to "consider the source" of what they take in but also think critically about what they post in a world where just about every young person is now potentially an author, photographer, and videographer. Kids--who may never even know who Walter Cronkite was--need to have a miniature version of him inside their head by asking questions such as "Is this true?" and "How do I know it's true?."
Wikipedia Norms [Video]
Great video from MIT Tech TV on Wikipedia norms. Students discuss the correct way to participate in the Wikipedia community.
Questioning Video, Film, Advertising and Propaganda [video]
Check out the commercials and curriculum ideas presented by Jamie McKenzie. Should be part of media literacy curriculum for all students.
Copyright & Fair Use in Teaching Resources
Partnership with Temple University to develop a code of best practices that helps educators using media literacy concepts and techniques to interpret the copyright doctrine of fair use. Fair use is the right to use copyrighted material without permission or payment under some circumstances-especially when the cultural or social benefits of the use are predominant. It is a general right that applies even in situations where the law provides no specific authorization for the use in question-as it does for certain narrowly defined classroom activities.
Copyright Case Study [ Video]
BEST PRACTICES IN FAIR USE from the folks at Temple University's Media Literacy Education Lab. This is a case study of PROJECT LOOK SHARP and their use of media literacy materials. Included are discussion questions that would be appropriate for teaching teachers and/or students.
Digital Citizenship Education
Microsoft curriculum units around digital citizenship theme.
Why Participatory Media Needs to Be In Schools
Writer, tech consultant, and educator Clay Shirky just gave a talk at the State Dept. explaining the media sea change we're experiencing globally. Keeping participatory media, the most fluent though not necessarily most literate users of which are youth, out of school only solidifies the firewall between formal and informal learning and holds school back from 21st-century relevance. Isn't the idea of adults unidirectionally disseminating to students info that the latter have actually never encountered before beginning to sound quaint?
PointSmartClickSafe.org
PointSmartClickSafe.org, (part of CABLE PUTS YOU IN CONTROL), is an initiative of the cable industry to educate parents about online safety and appropriate use of the Internet by their children. The approach centers around three key concepts: 1) CONTROL (including parental control); 2) EDUCATION in media literacy 3) CHOICE - helping your child make the right choices online.
Copyright, What's Copyright? [Video]
From Temple University Media Literacy Lab. Catchy little tune to introduce copyright and fair-use concepts to students. Sing along to understand copyright and learn about your rights to fair use.
My Pop Studio
My Pop Studio is a creative play experience that strengthens critical thinking skills about television, music, magazines and online media directed at girls. Users select from four behind-the-scenes opportunities to learn more about mass media: My Pop Studio strengthens media literacy skills, promotes positive youth development, and increases knowledge about health issues. Highly interactive creative play activities are used to create an online community that guides users through the process of deconstructing, analyzing and creating media. Video segments, flash animation, media deconstruction games and quizzes, and moderated blogs make the website lively, fun and educational. My Pop Studio was created by a team of researchers and media professionals at the Media Education Lab, located at Temple University's School of Communication.
Ginipic Search Engine for Images
Searches other search engines for pictures (Flickr, Photobucket, Google, Yahoo etc). Windows-only but the Mac version is under development. Some images have copyright info on them, but not all. Allows user to see a lot of different images at once.
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