Media Literacy: One of the 21st Century Literacy Skills All Students Need

1. Media Literacy: One of the 21st Century Literacy Skills All Students Need Frank W. Baker media educatorMedia Literacy Clearinghousehttp://www.frankwbaker.com

2. “Best Practices” Workshops December 6 (elementary) December 7 (secondary) Columbia Brooklyn Baptist Church Conference Ctr. Registration: SDE Website

5. Multi-modal literacies (NCTE) “From an early age, students are very sophisticated readers and producers of multi-modal work. They can be helped to understand how these works make meaning, how they are based on conventions, and how they are created for and respond to specific communities or audiences.”2005 Declaration, NCTE Executive Committee

6. Media literacy 101 “It would be a breach of our duties as teachers for us to ignore the rhetorical power of visual forms of media in combination with text and sound…the critical media literacy we need to teach must include evaluation of these media, lest our students fail to see, understand, and learn to harness the persuasive power of visual media.” NCTE Resolution on Visual/Media Literacy

7. Endorsing media literacy American Association of School LibrariansAnnenberg Public Policy CenterCarnegie Commission on Adolescent DevelopmentCenter for Substance Abuse Prevention International Reading Association National Board for Professional Teaching StandardsNational Council for Teachers of English National Council for the Social Studies National Middle School Association National PTANorth Central Regional Educational Laboratory (NcREL)Office of National Drug Control PolicyPartnership for 21st Century Skills

8. SC ELA Standards: Viewing “Every day, students come in contact with media and technology. The challenge is to help them make sense of it all and respond personally, critically, and creatively.The inclusion of viewing recognizes the powerful force of visual media in the 21st century. ..”

9. SC ELA Standards: Viewing “…..Teachers must be comfortable with integrating viewing into instruction. This can be achieved by teaching, for example, how to read a photograph, the techniques of persuasion in advertising, the language of film, criticaltelevision viewing skills, information/technology literacy and more.”

10. Generation M multi-taskers

11. What are they doing on line? • 87% of U.S. teens between 12 and 17 years of age use the Internet; just 66% of adults do so; • 81% of teen Internet users play games online; • 76% get news online; • 51% of teen Internet users say they go online on a daily basis; • 43% have made purchases online; and • 31% use the Internet to get health info Source: “Teens and Technology: Youth Are Leading the Transition to a Fully Wired and Mobile Nation” (2005) & "Life Online: Teens and Technology and the World to Come," (2006)

12. “Our students are growing up in a world saturated with media messages…yet, they (and their teachers) receive little or no training in the skills of analyzing or re-evaluating these messages, many of which make use of language, moving images, music, sound effects.”R.Hobbs, Journal Adult & Adolescent Literacy, February 2004

13. “While more young people have access to the Internet and other media than any generation in history,they do not necessarily possess the ethics, the intellectual skills, or the predisposition to critically analyze and evaluate……. these technologies or the informationthey encounter. Good hand/eye co-ordination and the ability to multitask are not substitutes for critical thinking.”Dr. David Considine, Appalachian State Univ.

14. Writing activity What is media literacy? video

15. Defining media literacy Media literacy is concerned with helping students develop an informed and critical understanding of the nature of mass media, the techniques used by them, and the impact of these techniques. More specifically, it is education that aims to increase the students' understanding and enjoyment of how the media work, how they produce meaning, how they are organized, and how they construct reality. Media literacy also aims to provide students with the ability to create media products.  Media Literacy Resource Guide, Ministry of Education Ontario, 1997

16. All media are constructions of reality

17. Media literacy’s rules • Media are constructed using unique languages with their own set of rules Language of Instant MessagingBRB= be right backHW= homeworkTTYL= talk to you laterLOL= laughing out loud

18. Media literacy’s rules • Media convey values and points of view

19. Media literacy’s rules • Audiences negotiate meaning

20. Media literacy’s rules • Media= power & profit FOX (News Corp) NBC (NBC/Universal)CBS ABC (Disney)CNN (AOL/Time Warner)VIACOM

21. Media literacy’s rules • Media contain ideological and valuemessages • Media have social and political implications • Form and content are closely related • Each medium has a unique and aesthetic form Source: Media Literacy Resource Guide, Ontario Ministry of Education, Toronto

22. Critical inquiry: asking questions • Who produced/created the message? • For what purpose was it produced? • Who is the ‘target audience’? • What techniques are used to attract attention; increase believability?

23. Techniques

24. Techniques

25. Techniques Katie Couric “slimmed” for CBS promo

26. Techniques

27. Techniques How do you know this is a fake website?

28. Product placement techniques

29. Critical inquiry: asking questions • Who or what is left out; why? • Who benefits from the message being communicated in this way? • What lifestyle is promoted? • How do you know what it means? • Where can you go to verify the info?

30. Let’s take a look at some images

32. Media lit in SC Teaching Standards

33. Teaching in the 21st century "If video is how we are communicating and persuading in this new century, why aren't more students writing screenplays as part of their schoolwork?" Heidi Hayes JacobApril 2004

34. The languages of TV & Film • Cameras a) Movement b) positioning c) use of lens • Lights • Audio (includes music, sound effects) • Editing (post production; special effects) • Set design • Actors: wardrobes; expressions

35. Examples Cell phone ad script Toy ad writing activities Politics Bush Kerry Film: Because of Winn Dixie Tuck Everlasting To Kill A Mockingbird

36. Activity Using the newspaper

37. What is the role of the school library media specialist in promoting media literacy?

38. Recommendations • Help students learn how to be critical viewers • Help students learn how to use critical inquiry skills- questioning • Help teachers appreciate teaching WITH media, but also teaching ABOUT media • Consider writing about media literacy in school and/or parent newsletter

39. Recommendations • Acquire materials which correlate to standards • Include media literacy in teacher training • Create bulletin boards which promote better understanding of media literacy and media issues • Start files on ads or news stories on media topics

40. Contact info Frank Baker Fbaker1346@aol.com Media Literacy Clearinghouse http://www.frankwbaker.com