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Digital and Media Literacy - Book Cover Look Inside

Digital and Media Literacy

Connecting Culture and Classroom

Leading authority on media literacy education shows secondary teachers how to incorporate media literacy into the curriculum, teach 21st-century skills, and select meaningful texts.

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Digital and Media Literacy - Book Cover Look Inside
Product Details
  • Grade Level: 7-12
  • ISBN: 9781412981583
  • Published By: Corwin
  • Year: 2011
  • Page Count: 232
  • Publication date: June 24, 2011
Price: $41.95

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Description

Description

Maximize the power of media for teaching 21st-century skills

Today's students tweet, text, and navigate apps up to 12 hours each day, but they may not know how to effectively analyze a TV show or website. Award-winning author Renee Hobbs demonstrates how to incorporate media literacy into the secondary classroom, providing the tools teachers need to:

  • Effectively foster students' critical thinking, collaboration, and communication skills
  • Integrate media literacy into every subject
  • Select meaningful media texts for use in the classroom
  • Recognize the "teachable moment" in dialogue about popular culture

Included are vignettes of Grade 6-12 teachers who are connecting their English, history, chemistry, and health classrooms to media culture. A companion website offers video clips and discussion questions related to the sample lesson plans in each chapter. Digital andMedia Literacy offers a wealth of ideas that you can implement immediately to prepare students for college and the workforce.


Key features

This resource explores:

  • Tips for understanding today's learner, and the culture of the "super-peer" 
  • Ways to build media awareness in the classroom
  • Concrete examples to illustrate the work of media analysis in different subject areas and grade levels
  • ways to assess student work in different media
  • clear delineation of media literacy from "new literacies" or "multiliteracies" and a look at the future
  • discussion of the copyright issues associated with use of digital materials
Author(s)

Author(s)

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Renee Hobbs

Renee Hobbs is Professor and Founding Director of the Harrington School of Communication and Media at the University of Rhode Island, and Interim Director of the Graduate Program in Library and Information Studies. Professor Hobbs is one of the nation's leading authorities on media literacy education. Through community and global service and as a leader, researcher, teacher, and advocate, Hobbs has worked to advance the quality of digital and media literacy education in the United States and around the world. She founded the Media Education Lab, whose mission is to improve the quality of media literacy education through research and community service. In the early 1990s, she created the first national teacher education program in media literacy at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Renee Hobbs maintains an active research agenda that examines the intersections of the fields of media studies and education. She has published four books and dozens of articles in scholarly journals in three fields: communication, education and health. She is the founding co-editor of the Journal for Media Literacy Education, an open-access peer reviewed journal. In 2012, she served as a Fellow for the American Library Association Office of Information Technology Policy. As a field-builder, she helped found the Partnership for Media Education, which evolved into the National Association for Media Literacy Education (NAMLE), the national membership organization for media literacy. She has sought and received exemptions on behalf of K-12 educators to protect fair use of copy-protected digital media as part of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), helping advance the benefits of digital learning for all teachers and students.

Renee Hobbs received an Ed.D in Human Development from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, an M.A. in Communication from the University of Michigan, and a B.A. with a double major in English Literature and Film/Video Studies from the University of Michigan.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface

Publisher's Acknowledgments

About the Author

Access

1. Why Digital and Media Literacy

2. Research as Authentic Inquiry

Analyze

3. Critical Questions, Close Reading

4. The Power of Representation

Create

5. Composing With Media Across the Curriculum

Reflect

6. Protection and Empowerment

7. Life Online

Take Action

8. What in the World: Teaching With Current Events

9. Infusing Digital and Media Literacy Across the Curriculum

Endnotes

Bibliography

Index

Reviews

Reviews

Quote by Abbey Spoonmore Duggins, Instructional Coach, Saluda County Schools, Saluda, SC:

“As our society becomes more global, schools must embrace a curriculum that builds and supports students’ critical thinking and 21st century skills. This book provides a purposeful technology- and media-driven path for teachers and curriculum specialists to follow in preparing students to become global citizens.”

“As our society becomes more global, schools must embrace a curriculum that builds and supports students’ critical thinking and 21st century skills. This book provides a purposeful technology- and media-driven path for teachers and curriculum specialists to follow in preparing students to become global citizens.”

Abbey Spoonmore Duggins, Instructional Coach
Saluda County Schools, Saluda, SC
Quote by Melody L. Aldrich, English Deptartment Chair, Poston Butte High School, San Tan Valley, AZ: "This book provides a wide variety of ways teachers can use technology to their advantage in the classroom. We need books like this one to show us how to utilize the power of the Internet and create valuable learning opportunities to 21st century students."
"This book provides a wide variety of ways teachers can use technology to their advantage in the classroom. We need books like this one to show us how to utilize the power of the Internet and create valuable learning opportunities to 21st century students."
Melody L. Aldrich, English Deptartment Chair
Poston Butte High School, San Tan Valley, AZ
Quote by Michelle Strom, Language Arts Teacher, Fort Riley Middle School, Fort Riley, KS: "Every teacher desires to integrate technology into their classroom instruction. This book provides step-by-step lessons and explanations. This is a must-read for anyone still tentative about immersing their instruction with the digital age."
"Every teacher desires to integrate technology into their classroom instruction. This book provides step-by-step lessons and explanations. This is a must-read for anyone still tentative about immersing their instruction with the digital age."
Michelle Strom, Language Arts Teacher
Fort Riley Middle School, Fort Riley, KS
Quote by Patti Grammens, Science Department Chair, Lakeside Middle School, Cumming, GA: "This book gives teachers ideas for actively engaging students in meaningful conversations. It helps us to find new ways to challenge students to think on a higher level."
"This book gives teachers ideas for actively engaging students in meaningful conversations. It helps us to find new ways to challenge students to think on a higher level."
Patti Grammens, Science Department Chair
Lakeside Middle School, Cumming, GA
Quote by Donna Alvermann, Distinguished Research Professor, University of Georgia Department of Language and Literacy Education, Athens, GA: "Renee Hobbs is a teacher at heart. Drawing from her vast knowledge of media literacy education and her experiences in secondary classrooms, Hobbs delivers on a number of fronts: critical thinking, Common Core standards, lesson planning, and communicating. To read Renee Hobbs is to take action!"
"Renee Hobbs is a teacher at heart. Drawing from her vast knowledge of media literacy education and her experiences in secondary classrooms, Hobbs delivers on a number of fronts: critical thinking, Common Core standards, lesson planning, and communicating. To read Renee Hobbs is to take action!"
Donna Alvermann, Distinguished Research Professor
University of Georgia Department of Language and Literacy Education, Athens, GA
Quote by Troy Hicks, Assistant Professor of English, Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, MI:

"By providing numerous examples, tools, and strategies, Media Literacy Education invites us to understand, critique, and create media. Renee Hobbs builds on theories of adolescent learning as well as current research in media studies to provide a clear framework for integrating media literacy across the curriculum. We have been told that we are supposed to engage our 21st-Century students. Hobbs continues to show us how."

"By providing numerous examples, tools, and strategies, Media Literacy Education invites us to understand, critique, and create media. Renee Hobbs builds on theories of adolescent learning as well as current research in media studies to provide a clear framework for integrating media literacy across the curriculum. We have been told that we are supposed to engage our 21st-Century students. Hobbs continues to show us how."

Troy Hicks, Assistant Professor of English
Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, MI
Quote by Nancy Frey, Professor of Literacy, San Diego State University, CA: "Renee Hobbs makes a powerful case for media education as a touchstone for all areas of the curriculum. Even better, Media Literacy Education provides the tools for fostering media-literate learners—a must in the 21st century."
"Renee Hobbs makes a powerful case for media education as a touchstone for all areas of the curriculum. Even better, Media Literacy Education provides the tools for fostering media-literate learners—a must in the 21st century."
Nancy Frey, Professor of Literacy
San Diego State University, CA
Quote by Kristin Hokanson, Technology Integration Specialist, Upper Merion High School, PA:

"In her new book Media Literacy Education, Renee Hobbs demonstrates that using digital media in the classroom can support the development of print literacy skills, as well as entertain and engage. This book links traditional skills such as authentic inquiry and the use of critical questions to students’ pop culture, bringing relevance to the learning experience. In doing so, it empowers both teachers and students to make literacy experiences more relevant to students’ interests, everyday life, and important current and cultural experiences."

"In her new book Media Literacy Education, Renee Hobbs demonstrates that using digital media in the classroom can support the development of print literacy skills, as well as entertain and engage. This book links traditional skills such as authentic inquiry and the use of critical questions to students’ pop culture, bringing relevance to the learning experience. In doing so, it empowers both teachers and students to make literacy experiences more relevant to students’ interests, everyday life, and important current and cultural experiences."

Kristin Hokanson, Technology Integration Specialist
Upper Merion High School, PA
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