Here is yet another opportunity to bring critical media health literacy to the forefront of education—both in and out of schools. Healthy Teens, Healthy Schools is participating in the inaugural National Media Literacy Week (Nov 2-6) by conducting health literacy education workshops. Here is the announcement from NAMLE: Read more
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Why National Media Literacy Week Is So Important
The launch of the very first Media Literacy Week (#MediaLitWk) in the United States is being held November 2-6, 2015. The mission of Media Literacy…
Join us at NAMLE in Philly this summer
Interested in joining me to learn more about media literacy & media use in the classroom? I am very excited about the eclectic program I’ve assembled of some of the best and brightest media literacy scholars, educators, practitioners, activists and artists around. Read more
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…
The Link between Health & Media Literacy
The significant increase in mass mediated messages about health over the past two decades has generated an increased sense of urgency for media literacy—not just among healthcare…
Core Principles of Media Literacy Education as a Framework for Teacher Education
In 2011, I wrote an article titled, “Building 21st-Century Teachers: An Intentional Pedagogy of Media Literacy Education” that was published in a special issue of…
Student Guest Post: We are Media
Who better to reflect on the 2/19/14 screening of “Eyes Wide Open: This is Media” than a media-savvy pre-service teacher in attendance? A special thanks…
“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…
Journal of Media Literacy Education 5:1
Two years ago, the most powerful earthquake ever to have hit Japan occurred off the coast of Tohoku. Nearly a half million buildings fully or…
Journal of Media Literacy Education
When my colleague Amy Jensen passed the co-editor baton to me this past February, it prompted me to reflect upon the original goals of the JMLE….