We can spend our time crying about how students spend more time watching TV and less time reading or we can provide them with the analytical skills they need to process and think critically about the TV they are watching. This becomes increasingly important as media is being delivered to students on smaller and smaller hand-held personal devices.
Perhaps the best way to teach media literacy is by having students create their own media. In the same way that we teach reading comprehension through writing we can teach media analysis through media creation.
Media Creation Links
Video in the Classroom.com
my own site dedicated to integrating video production in the elementary classroom
Flickschool.com
has free movies you can watch to improve your moviemaking talents
American Film Institute Screen Education Program
Media Literacy Links
PBS Don’t Buy It
Kids’ Media Literacy Site
An Introduction to Media Literacy
Media Literacy Online Organization Index
Recommended Reading
Reading in the Dark
recommended by Roger Ebert for teaching students to analyze films
Consider the Media Literacy Clearinghouse web site: vast resources for K-12 educators http://www.frankwbaker.com
Hi, I’m new to blogging and a total novice at technology stuff. Just wanted to know:
1. how to insert a video clip without using QuickTime Player. Many of my students don’t have this software and can’t see my video clip.
2. How in the world do you all find the time to do this in between teaching, family, etc.?
Please write when you have the time – thanks!
@Cheyenne,
1. Where do you want to insert the quicktime movies? I’m not clear on that.
2. In the elementary classroom, all of our projects are integrated with our standard curriculum to maximize instructional time. I understand that time is at a premium in the classroom but frequently time is wasted on less important things so that time can be reclaimed for video production. In terms of my personal time, not much is eaten up when students create their own projects in class. It’s blogging and maintaing web sites that eats up my time. But I really enjoy it.