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Glori H. Smith · DOAJ Open Access Articles
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Glori H. Smith · DOAJ Open Access Articles
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Paul Mihailidis · DOAJ Open Access Articles
Through a series of focus groups, this study explores how students, at the conclusion of a university-level media literacy course, see media’s necessary role in democratic society. It is a narrative inspired by the core belief of the media literacy discipline that if people are effectively taught the critical skills to access, evaluate, analyze, and produce …
Beau Beaudoin · DOAJ Open Access Articles
Today’s students are both consumers and producers in a participatory media culture of Facebook, YouTube and other online formats that bear both similarities and differences to traditional films, television and other professionally produced programming. This article describes the challenges of translating media education principles that were successfully util…
Debby Deal; Stephanie Flores-Koulish; James Sears · DOAJ Open Access Articles
This paper analyzes how 10 teachers in a literacy master’s program interpret, value, and implement media literacy education following a semester-long course. Interview data are analyzed using the Belenky et al’s Women’s Ways of Knowing framework. While all participants valued what they understood media literacy to mean, some confused ML with technology. Impl…
Lydia Brauer · DOAJ Open Access Articles
Despite the complex and evolving ways in which contemporary texts are produced, mediated, circulated, and engaged, secondary English texts in the United States remain predominantly canonical and paper-based. Why such a resolutely stable classroom canon, and at the beginning of the twenty-first century a singular medium? While the answer to this question is n…
Chris Sperry · DOAJ Open Access Articles
Chris Sperry gave this keynote address at the National Association for Media Literacy Education conference in Detroit on August 4, 2009. Chris is the Director of Curriculum and Staff Development for Project Look Sharp, a media literacy initiative at Ithaca College founded in 1995. He has taught secondary social studies and media studies at the Lehman Alterna…
Dolores A. D'Angelo · DOAJ Open Access Articles
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Yen Yen Jocelyn Woo · DOAJ Open Access Articles
William Sewell · DOAJ Open Access Articles
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Seth Ashley; Mark Poepsel; Erin Willis · DOAJ Open Access Articles
This study explores how increased knowledge of media ownership may affect judgments of credibility in responding to print news. An experiment was conducted with 80 undergraduate journalism students. Subjects were randomly exposed to either an informational article about the pros and cons of consolidation in media ownership or poetry. Then subjects read and a…
Hans Martens · DOAJ Open Access Articles
This article synthesizes a large subset of the academic literature on media literacy education. It first argues that media literacy is mostly defined in terms of the knowledge and skills individuals need to analyze, evaluate, or produce media messages. These knowledge and skills mainly relate to four key facets of the mass media phenomenon, i.e. media indust…
Lane W. Clarke; Kevin D. Besnoy · DOAJ Open Access Articles
This article describes a study where Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) were integrated into two eighth grade social studies classrooms to create a bridge that connected traditional textbook teaching with new technology. This article will explore the motivation for this type of integration, give specific details about the study, and share what we learned fro…
Tim Oldakowski · DOAJ Open Access Articles
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Katie Dredger; Daniel Woods; Crystal Beach; Victoria Sagstetter · DOAJ Open Access Articles
Adolescents use a wide variety of literacy practices in their daily lives. Preservice teachers in this study looked for ways to motivate their students to write by asking them about their in-school and out-of-school writing practices. This survey shows a gap between what motivates students to write for school and why they write out of school. The results sug…
Kristen Bloom; Kelly Marie Johnston · DOAJ Open Access Articles
It has been said that Web 2.0 is changing the way students learn. The time of the teacher as the primary source of information is a relic of the past. The role of the educator, as a result of new media, has changed substantially from one that is focused on the one-way transfer of information to one that trains students how to participate in digital environme…