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Watch it, Make it, Analyze it: Building Media Literacy Skills in Young People | The Media Spot
Schools are working with a flexible definition of literacy, influenced by established core concepts of media literacy, to:
* promote the development of critical thinking skills necessary to independently 'read' & 'write', and make meaning of messages in a variety of forms
* promote the basic operational skills, and understanding of the languages necessary to independently 'read' and 'write' effective messages in various forms of media (print, video, audio, etc.)
* instill confidence in the ability to adapt those skills and concepts to emerging forms of communication
* connect and transfer the fundamentals of literacy to other forms of real world communication and problem solving
Challenges & Questions:
* How do you fit this into already full school schedules?
* If these type of productions do take time from other discipline and skills, is it worth it?
* When and how do we train teachers to be confident enough in their own media literacy to fluidly guide students?
* Where is the balance that satisfies outcomes schools are traditionally responsible for with the real world needs of our students?
Education Week's Digital Directions: Tech Literacy Confusion
A growing chorus of experts say schools should add these forms of communication to their literacy mission as "technology literacy."
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By definition, literacy skills are those that everyone should have for civic participation; they should be skills within reach of just about everyone and be useful for a lifetime, Tyner says. By this view, including too many specific technical skills, high-level cognitive skills, and specialized workforce skills—even if valuable—would only make technology literacy more difficult to promote and achieve.
All About Explorers | Everything you've ever wanted to know about every explorer who ever lived...and more!
All About Explorers was developed by a group of teachers as a means of teaching students about the Internet. Although the Internet can be a tremendous resource for gathering information about a topic, we found that students often did not have the skills to discern useful information from worthless data.
So we set out to develop a series of lessons for elementary age students in which we would demonstrate that just because it is out there for the searching does not mean it is worthwhile.
Atomic Learning's Tech Skills Assessment - Movies
Atomic Learning’s Tech Skills Assessment helps you gauge technology skill levels, demonstrating skills can actually be applied.
How is the Tech Skills Assessment unique?
* Focused on how to use technology and how to apply it
* Correlated to ISTE NETS-S 2007 standards
* Easy identification of areas of greatest instructional need
* Includes curriculum projects to target technology gaps
* Comprehensive reporting system scalable to the needs of a district of any size
* Can be completed in a single class period
* Available with a subscription to the Technology Skills Collection
Top News - States struggle with assessing tech literacy
At CoSN's annual conference, representatives from two states discussed how they are meeting this challenge
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