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Tag: media literacy education
Health Media Literacy is a 21st Century Essential Skill
Optimal health is not just the absence of illness or disease; it is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being. I can’t think of anything more challenging right now, as the COVID-19 pandemic rages on. While we may be locked down temporarily, we must not lock ourselves in to the status quo of formalized schooling—including what constitutes core curriculum. Disparate times call for disparate measures, so to speak.
10 Steps to Media and Technology Literacy
Rather than simply use technology to support instruction, I firmly believe that media technologies exist to transform teaching and learning in a reciprocally innovative relationship between teacher…
Starting a Food [Education] Revolution
Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution aired on U.S. television between from March 2010 and June 2011. Its star was English celebrity chef and restaurateur Jamie Oliver…
Support Media Literacy Education in the U.S.
Media literacy is an essential set of core competencies for the 21st century. Yet, it is not a required subject area in U.S. schooling (although one can…
My Scholarly Love Letter to Neil Postman
Last week I had the privilege of delivering a guest lecture in Christopher McKinley’s “Introduction to Communication and Media Arts” course among 135 undergraduate students….
Come PLAY online this summer
I am teaching a three-week intensive online course (Integrating Technology Across the Secondary Curriculum) at Montclair State U. late summer (August 11-August 28). The course will…
“This is Media” Screening and Panel Discussion
Thanks to a grant from the National Association for Media Literacy Education (NAMLE) and pivot tv, Montclair State University‘s College of Education and Human Services hosted…
A Media Literacy Tour Through the Common Core
Join Faith Rogow and me at the NAMLE 2013 Conference in Torrence, CA on July 12th for an exclusive “tour” of the wonders of inquiry-based…
Healthy Teens, Healthy Schools
My second book is intended for educators across levels and contexts in our shared responsibility to cultivate critical media health literacy among teens. While the topic…