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Integrating Media Literacy and Critical Thinking into the Curriculum
This popular interactive workshop introduces the theory and practice of media literacy integration throughout the curriculum, emphasizing the development of critical thinking and analysis skills. It can be adapted to address the needs of a mixed group of K-12 educators, or focus on a specific target audience (e.g., middle school ELA and social studies, librarians, elementary health). Participants will receive materials and learn approaches that can be immediately used in the classroom or other educational context.
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Constructivist Media Decoding
Critical Thinking And The News
Key Questions To Ask When Producing Media Messages
Graphic display of media production questions related to audience & authorship, messages & meanings, and representations & reality.
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Media Literacy Lesson Design
Assessing Credibility & Bias
Question Design
Lesson Conception
Key Questions to Ask When Analyzing Media Messages
Graphic display of questions related to audience & authorship, messages & meanings and representations & reality.
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Constructivist Media Decoding
Assessing Credibility & Bias
Question Design
Lesson Elements
Lesson Conception
Lesson Conception
The Do-It-Yourself (DIY) Online Guide consists of a series of pull-down menus and embedded links to specific examples from existing Project Look Sharp curriculum kits and lessons, particularly those designed for community groups and broad audiences, such as the sustainability curriculum kits. These suggestions on the topic of Lesson Conception include sections on: tying to your goals, choosing strategic learning and teaching options, and adapting Project Look Sharp (PLS) lessons.
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Media Literacy And Critical Thinking Integration
Constructivist Media Decoding
Media Literacy Lesson Design
Document Selection
Question Design
Lesson Elements
Lesson Conception
Lesson Elements
The Do-It-Yourself (DIY) Online Guide consists of a series of pull-down menus and embedded links to specific examples from existing Project Look Sharp curriculum kits and lessons, particularly those designed for community groups and broad audiences, such as the sustainability curriculum kits. These suggestions on the topic of Lesson Elements include sections on: providing background information, adding additional information, extending the activity, and evaluating student learning.
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Lesson Elements
Lesson Conception
Looking at World War I Propaganda
Related to kit: Economics in U.S. History: A Media Literacy Kit
The article explores teaching about WWI through interactive decoding (analyzing) of propaganda posters from different countries. It lays out the theory and practice of media analysis for teaching critical thinking, questioning strategies, media literacy and core social studies content.
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Media Literacy And Critical Thinking Integration
Constructivist Media Decoding
Critical Thinking And The News
Question Design
Social Studies
High School
Media & Health Issues
Media literacy education is a powerful way to approach the impact of media use and media messages on a wide range of health issues for today’s youth by emphasizing media analysis, critical thinking, and self-expression. This 2-hour to full day workshop can address multiple health issues or focus specifically on one of them, including: nutrition, body image, advertising, alcohol and substance use, smoking, bullying and put-downs, safety, and teen sexuality.
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Constructivist Media Decoding
Youth Culture And New Technologies
Media Violence And Conflict Resolution
Do No Harm
Social Studies
Health
Media Construction of Presidential Campaigns
Related to kit: Media Constructions of Presidential Campaigns
A study of select campaign posters, cartoons, and ads teaches students to critically analyze messages from media source and to understand the role media have played throughout the history of American elections. By Chris Sperry and Sox Sperry, Social Education, November/December 2007.
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Critical Thinking And The News
Lesson Conception
Social Studies
High School
Media Constructions of Energy Choices: Empowering Students to See Through the Smoke
Related to kit: Media Constructions of Sustainability: Food, Water, and Agriculture
This webinar offers pedagogical techniques and curriculum materials to support a deeper understanding of how to address issues of bias in media documents about energy choices. Learn to to seek out and use media sources to deepen critical thinking practice about authorship, purpose, credibility and economics.
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Constructivist Media Decoding
Media Literacy Lesson Design
Assessing Credibility & Bias
Document Selection
Question Design
Lesson Conception
Social Studies
Science And Environment
High School
Media Constructions of Food Justice: Shining a Light on Equity, Economy and Sustainability
Related to kit: Media Constructions of Sustainability: Fingerlakes
The webinar offers pre-service and high school teachers along with college and community food justice educators pedagogical techniques and curriculum materials to support a deeper understanding of how to tie goals to content in lesson design.
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Constructivist Media Decoding
Media Literacy Lesson Design
Question Design
Lesson Conception
Social Studies
Health
Science And Environment
High School
Media Constructions of Martin Luther King Jr.
Related to kit: Media Constructions of Martin Luther King, Jr.
This webinar offers pedagogical techniques and curriculum materials to support a deeper understanding of how to use a wide variety of media documents that: support content teaching about social justice movements, examine media representations of ongoing struggles against racism and the practice of nonviolence, and encourage analysis of meanings and messages constructed about Dr. King's life.
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Constructivist Media Decoding
Media Literacy Lesson Design
Critical Thinking And The News
Assessing Credibility & Bias
Reflecting Diversity
Do No Harm
Lesson Conception
Social Studies
English Language Arts
Middle School
High School
Media Constructions of Peace and Social Justice: Reflecting Diversity
Related to kit: Media Constructions of Martin Luther King, Jr.
The webinar offers educators and teachers-in-training pedagogical techniques and curriculum materials related to peace and social justice topics to support diversity in the media documents we choose for classroom decoding. We explore how to seek out and use diverse media sources to deepen critical thinking practice with our students.
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Constructivist Media Decoding
Reflecting Diversity
Do No Harm
Question Design
Social Studies
Middle School
High School
Media Constructions of Presidential Campaigns
Related to kit: Media Constructions of Presidential Campaigns
The webinar offers high school educators and teachers-in-training pedagogical techniques and free curriculum materials to support a deeper understanding of how to use a wide variety of media forms across the historical spectrum - media from 19th century portraits, songs and handbills, to 21st century websites, twitter and email - to study historical context and to question their credibility.
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Constructivist Media Decoding
Media Literacy Lesson Design
Youth Culture And New Technologies
Assessing Credibility & Bias
Do No Harm
Document Selection
Lesson Conception
Social Studies
High School
Media Violence & Conflict Resolution
This 2-hour workshop explores the potential effects of verbal and physical violence shown in movies, TV, and video games on children and teens, and demonstrates ways in which K-8 teachers, community educators, and parents can address these effects through discussion and media literacy activities.
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Do No Harm
Social Studies
Psychology
Upper Elementary
Middle School
NAMLE Core Principles of Media Literacy Education in the U.S.
NAMLE is excited to offer to educators, advocates and allies these Core Principles of Media Literacy Education in the United States. We believe that these Core Principles articulate a common ground around which media literacy educators and advocates can coalesce. NAMLE is committed to using the Core Principles as a springboard for vibrant and ongoing dialogue, and as a first step in the development of clear, measurable outcomes and benchmarks for U.S. schools.
Piaget and the Power Rangers: What Can Theories of Developmental Psychology Tell Us About Children and Media?
Theories of developmental psychology can help to interpret evidence related to how children of different ages are affected differently by media consumption. By Cyndy Scheibe, 20 Questions About Youth and Media, Vol. 48 No. 1, September 2007
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Media Violence And Conflict Resolution
Psychology
Lower Elementary
Question Design
The Do-It-Yourself (DIY) Online Guide consists of a series of pull-down menus and embedded links to specific examples from existing Project Look Sharp curriculum kits and lessons, particularly those designed for community groups and broad audiences, such as the sustainability curriculum kits. These suggestions on the topic of Question Design include sections on: understanding the nature of effective key questions, address content knowledge, literacy and critical thinking, designing effective probe questions, and develop culminating and further questions.
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Constructivist Media Decoding
Assessing Credibility & Bias
Question Design
Lesson Conception
RX For an Infodemic: Media Decoding, COVID-19, and Online Teaching
After describing the historical, political and social causes of our viral age of “fake news,” this article explore how constructivist media decoding provides a methodology for addressing the polarization of truth, with examples of how this work can be done in the classroom through face-to-face and virtual learning.
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Social Studies
English Language Arts
Middle School
High School
College
Secondary School Social Studies: WWI Propaganda Posters
Related to kit: Economics in U.S. History: A Media Literacy Kit
An example of leading a class through a constructivist media decoding using a lesson from our kit, Economics in US History. Students in the video decode propaganda posters used in WWI.
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Constructivist Media Decoding
Document Selection
Social Studies
High School
College
Secondary Social Studies Integration with Curriculum Kits
This training will provide content and materials that enable teachers to reach both high achieving and traditionally disengaged students through use of Project Look Sharp curriculum materials that teach core social studies content and skills. The workshop will cover classroom decoding methods using key concepts and questions for media analysis, teaching 21st century critical thinking skills (e.g. identifying sourcing, credibility, and bias), and issues of copyright, accessing media documents, and assessment.
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Constructivist Media Decoding
Media Literacy Lesson Design
Critical Thinking And The News
Assessing Credibility & Bias
Fair Use Copyright Law
Document Selection
Question Design
Lesson Elements
Lesson Conception
Social Studies