Matt Heath's List: Media Literacy

• Dunlop, Janet, Kymes, Angel, Simile, 14966603, Aug2007, Vol. 7, Issue 3
• Analysis of Media Literacy Curriculum: The Center for Media Literacy's Media Lit Kit
• The Omnipresence of Media
• No one can argue the omnipresence of media when A.C. Nielsen statistics show that the average American watches more than four hours of television each day
• (Nielsen Media Research, 2006)
• The average American child spends 1,680 minutes per week watching TV
• Internet access is available in the majority of American homes, schools, and even public coffee houses.
• There is no commercial-free zone, as many public school classrooms are arenas of direct advertising.
• Media literacy, or the practice of assessing and analyzing media messages, emerges in our media-saturated society as one tool in preparing America's children to be active and critical consumers of media.
• In sum, this article will deconstruct a curriculum created to teach learners to deconstruct media.
• We used a checklist by Belenky, Clinchy, Goldberger and Tarule (1996) that serves to analyze the underlying assumptions about learning and knowledge.
• The Media Literacy Movement
• Madison, Wisconsin in the mid 1930s by a chapter of the American Association of University Women.
• weekly column and radio program called "Broadcast on Broadcasts,"
• Overview of Media Literacy Organizations
• The Center for Media Literacy (CML), founded by Elizabeth Thoman in 1976 in Los Angeles, has been a force in media literacy worldwide
• 21st century approach to education that provides a framework to access, analyze, evaluate and create messages in a variety of forms.
• Project Look Sharp (PLS)
• involves many components of technology literacy as well
• The Association for Media Literacy (AML)
• one of the oldest media literacy organizations in the U.S.
• The New Mexico Media Literacy Project (NMMLP)
• a movement that "empowers children, youth and adults to become more critical consumers of media messages"
• narrow this discussion to the Center for Media Literacy
• Center for Media Literacy - Philosophical Stance
• enabling

  "teacher and students to become Subjects of the educational process by overcoming authoritarianism and alienating intellectualism"
• Media literacy is education for life in a global media world
• "…schools and all community institutions share the responsibility for preparing young people for living and learning in a global culture that is increasingly connected through multi-media and influenced by powerful images and words"
• "… Awareness… analysis… Reflection… Action…" (CML, 2004)
• providing navigational tools that include the ability to access information from a variety of sources, analyze and explore how messages are constructed
• products offered by the media are often "subjective and sometime loaded with social biases,
• Media literacy is an alternative to censoring, boycotting or blaming "the media"
• Recommended Resources/Planned Innovations
• Financial and Resource Support
• Religious Organizations
• Publications by the Group
• Analysis Method and Results
• ( 5) Most media messages are organized to gain profit and/or power.
• "What is the relationship between self and the content of one's learning; and how are these relationships structured in terms of the curriculum, relationship with peers…"

• In the CML's concepts/questions, "questions to guide young children" are provided. Within these questions, learners are asked to self reflect through

  questions such as:

    

  What do I think and feel about this?

    

  What does this tell me about how other people might think and live?

    

  Is anyone or anything left out?

    

  What do I see or hear? Smell? Touch?
• pervasiveness of media in our culture, through television, the Internet, and all other forms of mediated and constructed discourse in society
• necessary to provide students the tools and skills necessary to not only manage the amount of information which bombards them

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• Dvorak, John C., PC Magazine, 08888507, 6/26/2007, Vol. 26, Issue 13
• Down with Dumbing Down
• RECENTLY THE NEW YORK TIMES reported on the brouhaha over the discovery of the AACS encryption key code
• Rather than wiping out the code — a string of 32 digits and letters in a specialized counting system
• The code was in hexadecimal, so why not just say hexadecimal?
• why The Times uses the phrase "specialized counting system"?
• by not using the specific term hexadecimal the article invites befuddlement for many
• After all, the article appeared in a section of the paper called "Technology," so it's safe to assume its readers have half a brain.
• Most people have computers and know that the computer has memory and a hard disk, though most do not know how these devices actually work.
• If average readers keep seeing a term or acronym such as DRAM each time they read about computers, then they will eventually make some effort to figure out what it means.
• I just wonder when exactly The Times stopped calling automobiles horseless carriages.
• most newspaper editors would never allow it
• there's no rationale for eschewing hexadecimal in favor of "specialized counting system."
• By John C. Dvorak
• Copyright of PC Magazine

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• Williamson, Dugald, Journal of Educational Media, 13581651, Oct99, Vol. 24, Issue 3
• MEDIA EDUCATION IN THE UNIVERSITY: ENHANCING MEDIA LITERACY THROUGH FIRST-YEAR UNDERGRADUATE COURSEWORK
• This article discusses the issue of how to enhance media literacy in university media courses
• flexible learning project designed to help first-year undergraduates acquire independent skills of research, information management, reading, analysis, problemsolving and writing
• problems that the pursuit of flexible and independent learning presents in universities
• first-year subject called 'Media Communications Research'

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• U.S. Catholic
• Aug96, Vol. 61, Issue 8
• NET SPEECH
• The use of computers and the Internet requires a certain amount of language learning.
• The following is a short catalogue of must-know terms.
• For more comprehensive lists, visit the Reference Shelf at http://www.sasknet.com/sasknet/general/genindex/FAQ.htmlor the Free On-line Dictionary of Computing at http://wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk.
• Address
• BBS (Bulletin Board Service)
• Bit--
• Browser
• Byte -
• E-mail (electronic mail)
• FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)
• File-
• FTP (file transfer protocol)
• Hypertext
• ISP (Internet service provider)
• Listserv
• Modem
• PC--personal computer
• Telnet
• URL (uniform resource locator)
• Usenet
• World Wide Web

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