Professional Documents
Culture Documents
MEDIA LITERACY
A C YBER W ISE C OMPANION G UIDE
OCAL,Clker
CYBERWISE 2012
TM
Media Literacy
TM
The National Association for Media Literacy Education (NAMLE) provides these 6 Core Principles for media literacy education. Media literacy education 1. Requires active inquiry and critical thinking about the messages we receive and create. 2. Expands the concept of literacy to include all forms of media. 3. Builds and reinforces skills for learners of all ages that necessitate integrated, interactive, and repeated practice. 4. Develops informed, reective and engaged participants essential for a democratic society. 5. Recognizes that media are a part of culture and function as agents of socialization. 6. Afrms that people use their individual skills, beliefs, and experiences to construct their own meanings from media messages.
http://namle.net/
The Center for Media Literacy (CML) denes Media Literacy as: "a 21st century approach to education. It provides a framework to access, analyze, evaluate, create and participate with messages in a variety of forms from print to video to the Internet. Media literacy builds an understanding of the role of media in society as well as essential skills of inquiry and self-expression necessary for citizens of a democracy."
http://www.medialit.org/
TM
Descriptions of each these skills (on the following pages) have been excerpted directly from: http://www.newmedialiteracies.org/the-literacies.php
TM
Simulation:the
ability to interpret and construct dynamic models of real-world processes. Being able to interpret, manipulate and create simulations can help you understand innumerable complex systems, like ecologies and computer networks - and make you better at playing video games!
TM
Appropriation:the ability to meaningfully sample and remix media content. Being able to remix media content (and knowing when doing so is appropriate) can help you understand literary works, music, and art; it can also help lead you to a deeper understanding of copyright and cultural clashes.
Distributed Cognition:the ability to interact meaningfully with tools that expand mental capacities. That can mean something as simple as using a ruler or calculator, or something as complex as efciently using Wikipedia on your iPhone to access information on the y.
Multitasking:the
ability to scan one's environment and shift focus as needed to salient details. Being a good multitasker is required in our new media landscape - and that includes learning when it isn't good to multitask.help you understand literary works, music, and art; it can \ also help lead you to a deeper understanding of copyright and cultural clashes.
Collective Intelligence:the ability to pool knowledge and compare notes with others toward a common goal. This ability is key to open source projects. Being able to pool knowledge with others can allow us to solve challenges far more complex than the individual mind can process.
TM
Networking: the ability to search for, synthesize, and disseminate information. Writing something isn't enough without the ability to circulate it to the communities where it will matter.
Negotiation: the ability to travel across diverse communities, discerning and respecting multiple perspectives, and grasping and following alternative norms. We now need to know how to live in multiple communities - from the hyperlocal to the global and from those composed of people like us to those consisting of people very different from us.
TM
Images from:
TM
2) In the new book, The Teachers Guide to Media Literacy: Critical Thinking in a Multimedia World, authors Cyndy Scheibe and Faith Rogow, both experts in the eld of media literacy education, provide a road map for understanding and implementing media literacy in the 21st-century classroom. This book includes dozens of activity ideas, self-reection exercises, voices from the eld, a glossary of terms, and seven annotated, original, classroomtested lesson plans that illustrate different approaches to media literacy.
http://www.sagepub.com/books/Book236061#tabview=title
Media Literacy Week Cable in the Classroom Media Awareness Network National Writing Project Powerful Voices for Kids Project Look Sharp Project Literacy Among Youth Adobe Youth Voices Global Kids
The National Association for Media Literacy Education (NAMLE) enhances growth in media literacy education in the United States by organizing and providing national leadership, advocacy, networking, and information exchange. Together, NAMLE members weave a diverse network of people and organizations committed to advancing media literacy education as a new vision of literacy for the 21st century. Join today at http://namle.net/
TM
TM
Transcript (cont.)
But we still have a lot a of work to do to develop a digital media curriculum that incorporates these new literacies. And we need to address adult safety and privacy concerns that to date have largely kept new media out of the classroom. In other words, we need a new approach. Experts suggest that this new approach is digital citizenship. In fact, the ISTE, the folks who develop technology standards for schools, emphasize digital citizenship in their updated standards. And most agree that these skills should be taught the minute a connected device is put in a childs hands. So where do we start? Well fortunately there is a wealth of digital citizenship resources online, we just have to make time to use them. Because living in a participatory culture is a lot more fun when everyone is participating. Video Music: "Look Busy, Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons "Attribution 3.0" http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/"
Video Images:
Thumbs up http://www.clker.com/clipart-thumbs-up-smiley.html Thumbs down http://www.clker.com/clipart-thumbs-down-smiley.html Computer Lab by: Extra Ketchup http://search.creativecommons.org/?q=image Covered computers by cdsessoms http://search.creativecommons.org/?q=image# Television http://www.clker.com/clipart-8654.html World http://www.clker.com/search/internet/3 Girls . Photo by George Loch / courtesy Argonne National Laboratory, NazarethCollege's photostream, Flickr Slide Show. From Marc Smith http://search.creativecommons.org/?q=image New media arty picture. From pnsnam New America Media http://search.creativecommons.org/?q=image Red poster. Linda H http://www.ickr.com/photos/25747180@N00/2284649096/ Grunge Stamp. From webtreats http://www.ickr.com/photos/44071822@N08/4167513274/ Child with IPhone From apdk http://search.creativecommons.org/?q=image# Question Smiley http://www.clker.com/clipart-4257.html Collaboration Image http://www.clker.com/search/collaboration/1 Digital Citizenship Cartoon. From giulia.forsythe http://www.ickr.com/photos/gforsythe/5689393230/in/photostream/ Chalkboard from D Sharon Pruitt http://search.creativecommons.org/?q=image
10
Thanks for reading! Here are some ways you can Be CyberWise. Visit our Website: www.CyberWise.org or follow us on Twitter: @becyberwise Be sure to check out and subscribe to our free publications: The CyberWise Daily A daily paper full of trends and topics related to media literacy, digital citizenship, education and the responsible integration of technology into the classroom delivered to your email every day. The CyberWise Newsletter A bi-weekly newsletter that keeps you up to speed on our new videos, guides, and other resources.