admin Media Literacy Questionnaire for English Language Learners
The purpose of this questionnaire is to get you thinking about the media and its influence on you and on…
Teaching Media Literacy in the ESL Classroom
Both ESL theory and classroom practice point to an understanding of the target culture as a necessary element in second…
Breaking Boundaries with Video Production: Inteview with Steve Goodman
Since 1984, Educational Video Center (EVC) in New York has trained and assisted hundreds of young people in producing award-winning…
Why I’ve Stopped Watching the 11 O’Clock News”
Last summer I stopped watching the 11 o’clock news — on any channel. In years gone by I was a…
What is Media Literacy? NAMLE’s Short Answer and a Longer Thought
The Short Version Media literacy empowers people to be both critical thinkers and creative producers of an increasingly wide range…
TV’s New Ratings Game
For dozens of years, TV executives have told us that one thing determines the selection of what airs on television:…
Media Literacy for the ’90s – U.S. Style
In recent years, as I have travelled around the world to Manila for WACC’s first congress or to Europe to…
Gospel Challenge of Media Literacy, The
Like most middle-class children growing up in the 1950’s, I grew up looking for the American Dream. In those very…
Media: A Girl’s Friend and Foe
There has been ample documentation in the past few years that the mass media are hardly a girl’s best friend.…
Insider’s Game: Talking Politics on TV
Absence of diversity has substantial consequences for the way the news depicts the political world. Politics, according to most major…