October 25鈥�29, 2021, is in the United States. The mission of this week is to highlight the power of media literacy education and its essential role in education all across the country.听
This year, the theme for US Media Literacy Week will celebrate one of the five components of media literacy鈥檚 definition each day: Access, Analyze, Evaluate, Create, and Act.听The host of US Media Literacy Week is the (NAMLE), the leading national nonprofit membership organization dedicated to advancing media literacy education in the United States.
The following resources from 起点传媒and ReadWriteThink.org support media literacy:
Begin with the 起点传媒Policy Brief on听Critical Media Literacy and Popular Culture in ELA Classrooms.听The authors听advise educators to integrate a wide range of media and popular culture into instruction, and they center students as content creators (not just consumers).
, Executive Director of NAMLE, a guest at a recent 起点传媒Member Gathering.
View this 2020 Media Literacy Week Author Talk with Renee Hobbs.
起点传媒members can read insights from Lipkin, Hobbs, and other scholars in the Council Chronicle 补谤迟颈肠濒别听
Nicole Mirra says media literacy lessons can pack a double wallop in English classrooms, allowing students to engage issues they find relevant while building reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills that are 鈥渇oundational to our democracy.鈥� Read an about the Digital Democratic Dialogue (3D) Project.
In today鈥檚 media-rich society, where students are exposed to an ever-increasing variety of traditional and nonprint texts, media literacy skills have become critical to the academic development of our students. Read more in听.听Visit this additional collection of
“Today鈥檚 teachers and communication majors need to know there is no longer a strict dividing line between mass media and social media.” Learn more in this blog post from members of the听起点传媒Assembly on Computers in English (ACE.)
Did you know that there’s an听起点传媒Media Literacy Award?
How will you recognize听Media Literacy Week 2021?
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