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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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'Look Up' - A spoken word film for an online generation. 'Look Up' is a lesson taught to us through a love story, in a world where we continue to find ways t...
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What happens if we live in a world where communication is digital, and people do not take time to communicate face2face, or to sit in nature and enjoy the sounds of the outdoors? Do you wonder if people are over involved with their cell phones? Consider taking five minutes of your time to watch this video. What are your thoughts?
malek's curator insight,
May 5, 2014 8:49 AM
“We don’t even know if anyone is listening, 
Michelle Gilstrap's curator insight,
May 5, 2014 2:46 PM
This is a great reminder to put down our phones and computers and relate to life. It is short, but impactful
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I am thrilled to see so many students creating blog posts and going BEYOND "writing" text made up letters, words, sentences and paragraphs. Being able to "read" and "write" in other media is part o...
Beth Dichter's insight:
Yet there is still the issue that students are citing images without checking to see if they have the correct permissions to do so. Students (and teachers) need to be aware of copyright rules. Using resources like Flickr you will find many pictures but students need to learn how check to see if the image is under Creative Commons and accurately site the source. Langwitch does an excellent job explaining a situtation that she experienced with her students and provides screenshots to help you understand what to look for. Teaching students how to cite resources is teaching our students media literacy. Consider having your students create an image that they could put under Create Commons and have attibuted to them of others were to use it.
Nancy Jones's curator insight,
November 3, 2013 3:52 PM
I don't know that I, myself, am as through as I could be about this. Thanks
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"As we head into the throws of the summer and the coming onslaught of fresh produce from local growers hitting the markets, we thought it might be helpful to provide a little information literacy into the world of organic foods. We’ve long taught our students to read the nutrition labels...but now that organic food has become mainstream in supermarket chains, it makes sense to educate our students about organics as well."
Beth Dichter's insight:
This post provides a wide variety of resources that will help you teach students about the difference between organic and non-organic foods. It is pretty amazing to see that 78% of families purchase organic foods (data is from the Organic Trade Association). This post discusses the need to for students to become "information literate" in terms of organic foods, yet our students need to become "information literate" in many areas. The wide variety of materials provides sufficient information in this area, and may help students learn that a wide variety of information is necessary to become literate in other areas.
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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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![Is Teaching Media Literacy Important? [POLL] | Eclectic Technology | Scoop.it](https://img.scoop.it/ncPwIPGzigyYdsSBHsZt1zl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBVvK0kTmF0xjctABnaLJIm9)
How important is it for kids to learn digital media literacy? What makes something on the web trustworthy? Participate in our poll.
Beth Dichter's insight:
This post begins with an amazing number..."The public Internet now houses over 630 million sites" (and that number comes from December 2012 survey). To me that number raises a question - do our learners know how to evaluate websites? Do they have the tools that allow them to determine if a site is 'fact or fiction'? This post explores the issue of media literacy with a twist, which is you may choose to participate in a poll, or simply review the data based on responses (and I do not know how long the poll will remain active). The poll has a yes or no statement: It is important to teach children how to assess online media credibility. It is followed by four questions: * Which media source do you trush to provide credible information? * What makes you trust an online publication the most? * How important is the credibility in the content you share? * What kind of content are you most likely to share. A unique feature of this poll is that you may explore the data through a number of filters: gender, age, income, ethnicity and race.
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This new website from Jackie Gerstein explores technology use in social and emotional learning. Quoting from the site "This website has been designed to describe technology activities that facilitate social emotional learing.The links in the menu lead to descriptions of the individual activities. They can be sued within formal and inforrmal educational setting. Even though the focus of the activities are on building and enhacing social emtional learning, many can be connected with content standards related to language arts, oral communication, media literacy, and ISTE's National Education Standards for Students." The website is very easy to use. There is a menu that provides a list of 14 activities, including Conflict Management Strategies Posters, Book Trailers, and Teach Tech to Grandparents. Most have samples of projects. Not all are relevant to all ages but she does state that she has used some with both elementary and college students.
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"The crowd-sourced site Wikipedia has long been bemoaned by the academic community as an unreliable source for student research. Some educators, however, have embraced the site—not only for pointing students in the direction of quality information, but also for teaching information literacy skills." This article recommends you discuss/define terms such as crowd-sourced, open source, citation, plagiarism and more (and provides a link to an article '7 Things You Should Know About Wikis.' The article then recommends steps students should take as they explore Wikipedia for articles, in other words, use media literacy/information literacy skills as you would with any website when using Wikipedia. This is a great source to help you think about how to teach skills to your students.
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"Whether they realize it or not, our students are inundated with numbers. It can be hard for them to get a handle on the competing streams of information from tech and social media. One way they can learn to negotiate this "Age of Big Data" is by becoming familiar with the different types of charts and displays..." Providing simple tools and suggestions of sites with resources this post explores the taxonomy of graphs and ways to guide students on how to look at graphs.
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Michael Rosenblum: it's vitally important we teach people how to communicate their ideas in video so they might speak the media language we are all increasingly using...
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Spotlight covers the intersections of technology and education, going behind the research to show how digital media is used in and out of classrooms to expand learning.
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"Media educators base their teaching on key concepts of media literacy, which provide an effective foundation for examining mass media and popular culture. These key concepts act as filters that any media text has to go through in order for us to respond."
Beth Dichter's insight:
Do you teach media literacy? Do you think we should teach students in upper elementary and middle school the concepts of media literacy? Media Smarts (out of Canada) with the assistance of Companies Committed to Children, has launched a new website, Media Literacy 101. What will you find? Six short videos that will engage students as they learn about media literacy as well as lesson plans that include an overview, learning outcomes, preparation and materials, key concepts and an optional worksheet. The areas covered include: * What is media anyway * Media are constructions * Audiences negotiate media * Media have commercial impacts * Media have social and political implications * Each media has a unique aesthetic form These lessons are geared for students from about Grade 5 - 8, but make sure you review them to determine if they will work with your students. If you believe that your students need to become more media savvy this is website is worth exploring.
Antonio Andrade's curator insight,
September 6, 2014 11:54 AM
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"Today's learner needs to be savvy about new media. Traditional advertising is direct; we see, hear, or read it. Other than tapping our senses, it does not take advantage of our privacy. Digital advertising is subliminal and unseen. It secretly gathers data to aggregate and push ads to the devices our students use."
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Do you know what goes on behind the scene of a banner, ad or game that appears on your computer screen? Do the learners in your classroom understand the concept of privacy and how much their online activities are being tracked, with information being collected about then? This post looks into these issues and provides two excellent resources to share with students. The first, Behind the Banner, is a visualization which "provides an interactive view of how the adtech ecosystem collects data based on search patterns." You may find yourself amazed at just how much happens in less than one-quarter of one second! The second is a shorter video and geared to younger students. The video, What Does the Ad Say?, helps students learn about digital marketing techniques and how they target different groups. Our learners need to be aware of issues of privacy (or perhaps the lack of privacy) that comes from having an online presence. This post provides resources that will help them become more savvy about what is happening when they are online.
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"This learning module explores how the First Amendment shaped the civil rights movement. Delve into hundreds of historical newspapers, videos, photographs and more to find out how the five freedoms empowered people fighting for change — and those fighting against it. Individuals young and old, black and white, male and female, rich and poor became part of this movement. Some of their efforts succeeded; some failed. But everyone involved shared the belief that their voices and actions, supported by the First Amendment, had the power to change the nation."
Beth Dichter's insight:
Newseum has just released a new moduel that explores the First Amendment and the Civil Rights Movement. You will find: * An interactive timeline featuring videos, photographs and front pages from a variety of historical newspapers * A media map, allowing you to compare the front page of newspapers from across the country * Multimedia panels looking at contemporary civil rights issues * Standards designed lesson plans This website will help students historical thinking, media literacy and civic engagement. Students may also submit their work for display in the Digital Classroom.
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What would happen if you asked your students' to reflect on their reading history...and then have them create an infographic that helps them dig a bit deeper and share what they have learned? According to this teacher the finished product is pretty amazing! She began with an article from the NYTimes "What's Your Reading History? Reflecting on the Self as Reader". Then she had students explore infographics and critique them as a group. The students then explored a number of websites that allow you to create infographics (and links are provided to them) and students chose one to work with. The post provides links to a number of infographics made by the students. And the link to the article at the NYTimes is http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/04/whats-your-reading-history-reflecting-on-the-self-as-reader/?_r=0.
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What is 21st century learning, and how do networks and technology function within it?
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There are many ways we may look at 21st century learning and this post suggest that there are six channesl of learning. In fact the post notes that there are more than six channels but that "these six are emerging or have always existed as powerful players in how learners make meaning." The image above provides a visual view, and the six key areas are listed below. * Dialogic Response * Community Interaction * Abstraction and Creativity * Media Literacy * Play * Self-Directed Learning Are there other areas you would define as channels of learning?
Drora Arussy's curator insight,
May 20, 2013 12:38 PM
Wonderful way to put it in perspective. Thank you for sharing the visual. 
Brad Reitzel's curator insight,
August 26, 2014 10:54 AM
Very important components for 21st Century learnings...media literacy should probably be number one in our list!
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"Ever since the Media Education Lab moved from Temple University to the University of Rhode Island, I was looking for a chance to update the classic media literacy remote control...[which] presents a metaphor for the active and structured approach to the analysis of media and popular culture." The remote control has been re-designed to " a smartphone look while keeping the key questions and core concepts the same.
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The "buttons" are the "features" and include: * Reality Check * Private Gain or Public Gain * What's Left Out * Read Between the Lines * Stereotype Alert * Solutions Too Easy * Record/Save for Later If you look at the"the bottom part of the MEL App [you will]... see the different media genres content that can be analyzed." The post notes that you may use this to explore newspapers, TV messages, comics, tablets, radio, books, movies, video games and more. Think of it as a tool to promote media literacy and a guide to structured critical analysis. This is not a real app that you download, but a tool that is very reasonably priced. "One side of the smartphone displays the various "apps" for analyzing a media text and the other side displays the "five critical questions" of media literacy developed by Renee Hobbs."
Irvin Sierra's curator insight,
November 6, 2014 11:14 PM
This article is in relation to what we are talking about in class because it has to do with popular culture. This new invention that they had made was based on already a device that was use for media literacy. But with all the new technology advancing and growing they decided to make it look more attracting to society by making it look like a smartphone. By making it look like a smartphone more people would be attracted to it since everyone around the world now have smartphone devices. This is not only across the US but across the world . Its spreading so it much likely consider popular culture because everyone would want to have the new thing coming out.
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"When we speak of the education crisis in the United States, there's one fallacy: We refer to it as ONE singular crisis or problem when in reality, it's a set of issues that in the end combine into one wicked problem. How do we solve such a big problem systematically, one bite at a time?" This post notes that todays "schools are preparing children for the 21st century using a 19th century model." Is it possible for us to use a 19th century model with issues that have "never been seen before?" How do we break away from conventional thinking and embrace creativity? There are three areas of focus that are necessary for creativity according to this post: entrepreneurship, communication, and media literacy. For more information click through to the post.
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"A recent study by the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop found that 72 percent of the top-selling education apps in the iTunes store target preschool or elementary-age children, a significant increase from 47 percent in 2009. Study results also show that early learning apps for preschoolers and toddlers are the most popular app category and have experienced the greatest market growth." Today we see many pictures of young children watching or interacting with a screen. One question to ask "is whether interactive screen time can be considered a valid teaching tool for children as young as two and one-half."
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"Within the classroom, Wikipedia has long been synonymous with words like “untrustworthy,” “fallacious,” and “non-academic.” However, recently I noticed many of my own university professors opening up to the idea of using the resource to double-check facts, and I began seeing it cited more frequently in academic papers, which made me wonder – is Wikipedia improving its image in academia?"
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TED, the non-profit devoted to "Ideas Worth Spreading," announced the winners of its 2011-2012 "Ads Worth Spreading" challenge on Tuesday. The non-profit stated on its website that the intention of this annual initiative is to find “ads that communicate ideas with consumers in the same way that TED wants to communicate with its audience.”... This links to the ten winners and is another way to view social media and a great tool to use to in media literacy.
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The Center for Social Media showcases and analyzes media for public knowledge and action—media made by, for, and with publics to address the problems that they share.
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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+
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