Author: Vanessa Greenwood, Ph.D.

Professor at Montclair State University, New Jersey, USA | Research interests include media literacy, communication, education, and technology.

10 Steps to Making Your Classroom More Media & Technology Literate this Fall

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As all of you educators out there gear up for the new school year, I assure you that by following these 10 simple steps, it…

UNESCO Launches Media & Information Literacy Curriculum for Teachers

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Alton Grizzle dazzled NAMLE conference attendees this past week with (among other things) the global and groundbreaking curriculum that UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and…

NAMLE 2011 Conference Highlights

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More than 350 media literacy educators (teachers, professors, journalists, film makers, non-profit execs, activists) convened in Philly this past weekend for NAMLE 2011 Conference: “Global…

Global Visions, Local Connections: Voices in Media Literacy Education

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From July 22-25th the National Association for Media Literacy Education (NAMLE) will bring together a chorus of voices from across the world to meet in…

Social Media Revolution 3.0

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Erik Qualman (author of Socialnomics) recently updated his highly popular “Social Media Revolution” video. Digital knuckle bump to him as you watch this data-saturated and…

Technotopian View of Schooling

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I have to give Microsoft credit—their billions of dollars and high technology do make for interesting possibilities for schooling professionally and pedagogically for teachers—in addition…