21st Century Media Literacy
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Target Group: Secondary & Upper Elementary teachers, all content areasHelp kids to "read between the lines" of films, internet, music, art, photos, advertisements and other modern media.Colorado´s new standards call for students to be multi-literate, i.e. to be able to interpret and learn from multiple media sources. Non-linguistic messages (#5 on Marzano´s list of most effective teaching techniques) dominate communication today. This class will help you arm students with skills to recognize media techniques and to use them effectively in their own communication.A bonus of using media literacy techniques is the expansion of your differentiation skills, enabling more students to learn more.Topics include:Music can calm the savage beast but can it teach an 8th grader?Is the news biased toward violence? Toward the left or right?Murals: the voice of multi-cultural AmericaMake your White Board sing, dance, recite poetry, display art, and travel the world.How historical are historical films?Bringing the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian and the National Archive down to size for classroom use.Public Service ads: propaganda with a purposeMoving from blind trust to thoughtful evaluation: using wiki-pedia and other internet sources.The graphic novel: children´s books for really big kids.Blogs, Tweets, and Wiki´s, friend or foe?Participants will experience media literacy techniques, create their own assessments for use in class and share their results with classmates in mandatory follow-up sessions.
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