admin Empowered Parents: Role Models for Taking Charge of TV Viewing
Television is an amazingly powerful communication tool. Its images of culture, family, relationships, and events give us opportunities to socialize,…
Think. Interpret. Create: How Media Education Promotes Critical Thinking, Democracy, Health and Aesthetic Apppreciation
Media literacy education is at a watershed moment around the world. We are making the inevitable and gradual turn to…
Visual Education
In this eloquent argument for a deepening of visual literacy education beyond fostering skills of critical analysis, the author takes…
LP# 5C Hidden Messages: The Growth of Product Placement
Keeping track of who is renting our eyeballs is more difficult today as "stealth ads" become embedded into the content…
LP# 4E What’s Missing? Making Room for Multiple Perspectives
Sometimes what is missing from a media message can be more important than what is included. Using stories and events…
Bombarded by Barbie
With media messages more subtle and ubiquitous than ever before, simply turning off the TV set is no longer a…
What I’ve Learned from Making Video – A Student Speaks
“Not only have we learned how to use the equipment, how to work together, and how to create something worthwhile…
Making Media Skills
Summary: Three video-production teachers explain why the analytical and critical thinking skills of media literacy go hand in hand with…
Collaborating for Success: Classroom teachers and video specialists
Video production is a richly layered activity that engages learning and skills on many levels. It is a form of…