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"Information literacy equips students with the critical skills necessary to become independent lifelong learners. PBS LearningMedia provides resources that address information literacy skills underlying the basic tenets of Common Core State Standards." 
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"PBS LearningMedia, a free destination for instant access to tens of thousands of classroom-ready, digital public media resources including videos, games, audio clips, photos, and lesson plans, provides core subject area resources. Included in this resource library are resources that address media literacy skills underlying the basic tenants of Common Core State Standards."
Beth Dichter's insight:
The Common Core standards state: "To be ready for college, workforce training, and life in a technological society, students need the ability to gather, comprehend, evaluate, synthesize, and report on information and ideas, to conduct original research in order to answer questions or solve problems, and to analyze and create a high volume and extensive range of print and nonprint texts in media forms old and new." This post shares a few of the many resources available at PBS LearningMedia (at no cost). The focus here is on strengthening media literacy. Clicking through to PBS will provide you with access to over 30,000 resources.
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Beth Dichter's insight:
Did you know that PBS has a portal for students? It provides resources for art, math, science, social studies, language arts, health, and NOVA Labs. You will need to create a teacher account (click on this link to get to that page: http://www.pbslearningmedia.org/ You will need to click on LogIn (upper right hand corner) and will be given the option of creating a new account. There are several tools offered to help make life easier for teachers. You will find a Lesson Plan Builder, a Quiz Creator and StoryBoard tools. You can then create accounts for your students. The site will give them access to your material as well as additional resources. You will find over 700 resources in Spanish. PBS provides access to many great programs. This site may be useful for projects or specific units.
Becky Roehrs's curator insight,
October 13, 2014 9:53 PM
You can create a teacher account and use tools to share your resources with your students. |
PBS LearningMedia is continuing to add resources and lessons to their website. This post shares five resources that help teach information literacy, with a focus on gathering, evaluating and analyzing. The five resources are listed below with brief explanations. For more information click through to the post.
Gathering Information
* Exploring Social Media with #Hashtags - for students Grade 6 - 13+
Evaluating Information
* ARTHUR'S Guide to Media Literacy - for students PreK - 4
* Evaluating the Validity of Information - Did the Chinese Discover America in 1421? Grades 6 - 8
Analyzing Information
* Analyzing Information - Can Pigs be Pets - Grades 3 - 5
* Media Arts: How to be a Critical Viewer - Grades 6 - 13+
You will need to create a free account if you do not already have one to access all their materials.