PBS provides teachers with excellent tools to both create and consume media content. From Arthur’s Guide to Media Literacy to FRONTLINE segments on what it…
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Building 21st-Century Teachers: An Intentional Pedagogy of Media Literacy Education
High quality teacher education requires a complex body of knowledge, skills, and dispositions. Media literacy education can (and should be thought of) as an intentional…
Digital Media—New Learners of the 21st Century (PBS)
This is a highly thoughtful 1-hour PBS feature of 5 innovative schooling projects in search for the purpose of education in the 21st century. It’s…
Powerful Voices for Kids (& the RH Factor)
One of my favorite media educators and researchers is Renee Hobbs of the Media Education Lab at Temple University (among other ventures). Her Powerful Voices…
One Laptop Per Child and the Need for Media Literacy
This is an interesting examination of the One Laptop Per Child global initiative and the need for a larger framework for understanding technology. It is…