“The whole media literacy enterprise this day, clearly a regular part of this middle school English classroom routine, has taken up about ten minutes of the period.”
This statement stood out to me because it shows that media literacy can easily be implemented into the classroom. Curriculum is sometimes over-crowded, but this teacher proves that she found time to teach something that is important. I also found the different reasons to introduce media literacy interesting. Some teachers use it to connect the classroom and the culture and others see how themes and issues relate to literature and history. But no matter how media literacy is taught, all students can learn how to critically analyze all forms of media and text.
This site provides tools of digital storytelling to students and combines them with teaching methods to help students tell their own stories. Students can learn video editing and publishing techniques to be digital storytellers.
Hobbs, R. (n.d.). Teaching media literacy: yo! are you hip to this?. Retrieved from http://www.medialit.org/reading-room/teaching-media-literacy-yo-are-you-hip
Teaching story. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.teachingstory.com/
It is surprising how quickly a teacher can incorporate media literacy. It's not really an easy concept for me. I have to think about how I could really make that happen.
ReplyDeleteI thought about choosing this statement because I thought the same thing. The students were very engaged and it only took a few minutes to execute an interesting and meaningful part of the lesson.
ReplyDeleteI agree with your statement that all students can be taught to think critically. I'm going to bookmark your additional resource, Teaching Story, and use this in the future!
ReplyDeleteTeaching Story is a wonderful resource! Thank-you!
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