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Preparing Media Literate Students for 2011 and Beyond

Preparing Media Literate Students for 2011 and Beyond. Michael Arnold, Instructional Designer The Center for Learning and Technology marnold@marylhurst.edu. "We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge."    --John Naisbitt , Megatrends . Critical Questions.

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Preparing Media Literate Students for 2011 and Beyond

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  1. Preparing Media Literate Students for 2011 and Beyond Michael Arnold, Instructional Designer The Center for Learning and Technology marnold@marylhurst.edu

  2. "We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge."   --John Naisbitt, Megatrends

  3. Critical Questions What are the essential technical skills that all students will need? What critical thinking abilities do we want all students to possess? How do educators support student media literacy in their own classes? How do we prepare students for a participatory culture? What does “media literacy” even mean?

  4. What are the essential technical skills that all students will need?

  5. Consider this… • YouTube exceeded 2 billion views per day as of May 2010. • Facebook recorded over 500 million users as of July 2010. • CBS News reported in February 2010 that the number of cell phones worldwide topped 4.6 billion. • Teens send and receive an average of 3,339 texts per month. SOURCES: http://www.website-monitoring.com/blog/2010/05/17/youtube-facts-and-figures-history-statistics/ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1169422/Pupils-spend-time-Facebook-worse-exams-study-shows.html http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/02/15/business/main6209772.shtml http://edtechdigest.wordpress.com/2010/09/06/6-reasons-why-students-need-21st-century-skills/ http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/cellphones_in_the_classroom_distraction_or_tool.php

  6. EDUCATION THE WORLD STUDENTS LIVE IN Source: http://icanhascheezburger.com/

  7. What are the essential technical skills will all students will need?

  8. What critical thinking abilities do we want all students to possess? • Basic, Scientific, and Technological Literacy • Visual and Information Literacy • Cultural Literacy and Global Awareness • Inventive Thinking • Adaptability/Managing Complexity and Self-Direction • Curiosity, Creativity and Risk-taking • Higher Order Thinking and Sound Reasoning • Personal and Social Responsibility • Prioritizing, Planning, and Managing for Results • Effective Use of Real-World Tools • High Quality Results with Real-World Application SOURCE: www.metiri.com/21st%20Century%20Skills/PDFtwentyfirst%20century%20skills.pdf NCREL: http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/ METIRI GROUP: http://www.metiri.com/our_work.html

  9. How do educators support student media literacy in their own classes? • Get buy-in • Create relevancy • Set reasonable boundaries • Reach consensus of accountability • Be a role model • Become a co-learner • Provide options

  10. How do we prepare students for a participatory culture? • Use participatory tools • Blogs • Wikis • Podcasts/Vodcasts • Video • Forums • Cell phones • Modeling proper use • Security • Ethics • Online is Forever • Netiquette • Online behavior • Audience

  11. Critical Questions • What are the essential technical skills will all students will need? • What critical thinking abilities do we want all students to possess? • How do educators support student media literacy in their own classes? • How do we prepare students for a participatory culture?

  12. Where do I start?

  13. Start small.Plan for growth.

  14. Pathway 1: Mobile Devices

  15. www.polleverywhere.com • Mobile phone survey tool • Cost effective • Data in real-time

  16. ReQall •   Voice-enabled memory aid • Integrates your mobile phone, email, text messaging and IM • Organizer, reminder system and productivity assistant

  17. Google Mobile Apps • Mobile search technology • Filtering software • Location sensitivity

  18. Pathway 2:Learning Management System

  19. Moodle • Embeddable content • 24/7 access • Level playing field • All activity is archived • Journal and Blog tools • Protected behind login Link to Marylhurst LAC 172 : Computer Technology Survey course

  20. Pathway 3: Web 2.0 applications

  21. Animoto

  22. Storybird

  23. Google Docs

  24. Let’s not get ahead of ourselves! What is “media literacy” anyway?

  25. What does it mean to be “media literate”? Media Literacy refers to the ability to decode,evaluate,analyze, and produce both print and electronic media. National Leadership Conference on Media Literacy, 1992

  26. A “media literate” person can: • assess the credibility of information and its source • recognize metaphor and other types of symbolism • distinguish logical arguments from emotional appeals • be sensitive to verbal, visual and linguistic arguments • use critical thinking to assess truth of information

  27. A “media literate” person understands that … All media messages are constructed. Media messages are constructed using a creative language with its own rules. Most media messages are organized to gain profit and/or power. Media have embedded values and points of view. Different people experience the same media message differently.

  28. “I have been assured…that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee or a ragout.” SATIRE An Early Example of Media Literacy “A child will make two dishes at an entertainment for friends; and when the family dines alone, the fore or hind quarter will make a reasonable dish, and seasoned with a little pepper or salt will be very good boiled on the fourth day, especially in winter.” A Modest Proposal - By Jonathan Swift (1729) For Preventing The Children of Poor People in Ireland From Being A burden to Their Parents or Country, and For Making Them Beneficial to The Public

  29. A “media literate” person understands that … All media messages are constructed. Media messages are constructed using a creative language with its own rules. Most media messages are organized to gain profit and/or power. Media have embedded values and points of view. Different people experience the same media message differently.

  30. Don’t believe it?Try this on for size. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xffOCZYX6F8

  31. “Ground Zero Mosque” Imam Feisal on the Cultural Center VS

  32. How media literate are you? God is a DJ Dog Island Free Forever Martin Luther King RYT Hospital Food Insurance

  33. What Media Literacy is NOT • Media 'bashing’ • Media production • Teaching with videos • Looking for political agendas, stereotypes or misrepresentations • Looking at a media message or a mediated experience from just one perspective • Telling people, “Don't watch” Source: Center for Media Literacyhttp://www.medialit.org/reading-room/what-media-literacy-not

  34. How and why to use which tools when and for what purpose.

  35. Benefits of Media Literacy Education Replicable across curricula Participate in and contribute to the public debate Encourage respectful discourse Common vocabulary Expands audience beyond the classroom Wise consumers of media Global media culture Focusing on process skills rather than content knowledge Integrating all subject areas Producers of their ideas Managers of information Inquiry approach to learning Frees the teacher to learn along with students Global dissemination of ideas Connects learning with "real life" Not only benefits individual students but benefits society Helps meet academic standards Students gain the ability to analyze any message in any media Expands communication opportunities Empowerment Contemporary media content which students use Common approach to critical thinking

  36. What does a media literate student look like? What are the essential skills all students will need to be competitive? What critical thinking abilities do we want all our graduates to possess? How do faculty support student media literacy in their own courses? How do we prepare students for a participatory culture? What does “media literacy” even mean?

  37. Thank you for your attendance. Thank you for your attendance. May the media gods smile upon you. May the media gods smile upon you.

  38. Sources and Images • Woman on Computer slide 3 • Girls At Laptop slide 4 • Girl with Headset slide 4 • Boy on computer slide 4 • Student on Computer slide 4 • Kid with cell phone slide 4 • Girl on cell slide 4 • Complaining kid slide? • Google mobile apps slide ? • Red block slide 13 • Handful of cell phones slide? • Blackboard logo slide 18 • Moodle logo slide 18 • Desire2Learn slide 18 • Cart before the horse slide 24

  39. Additional Resources • ReadWriteWeb, http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/cellphones_in_the_classroom_distraction_or_tool.php • ReQall: http://www.reqall.com/about

  40. http://www.mlive.com/entertainment/kalamazoo/index.ssf/2010/08/voices_is_building_the_mosque.htmlhttp://www.mlive.com/entertainment/kalamazoo/index.ssf/2010/08/voices_is_building_the_mosque.html • http://www.linkedin.com/companies/the-daily-caller • http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/26/the-daily-caller-tucker-c_n_207675.html

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