1) What do you do? I am a Focus teacher and History teacher at a private school for middle and high-school students with learning disabilities in New York City, Winston Preparatory School. As a Focus teacher, I work one-on-one with students in various academic areas based on need, including decoding, encoding (spelling), reading comprehension, written expression, academic [...]
A.D.D.: Adolescent Demo Division ($24.15 + free shipping). NAMLE National Advisory Board Member, Douglas Rushkoff, (also a world-renowned media theorist, Frontline TV correspondent and author) writes about the world’s luckiest teen gamers—the Adolescent Demo Division. The A.D.D. are Raised from birth to test media, appear on reality TV and enjoy the fruits of corporate culture, the squad [...]
We invite members to post recommendations for the following candidates for the NAMLE Board of Directors, at the bottom of this page. Members will be emailed with directions for voting.
The Last Survivor is a documentary that follows the survivors of four different genocides and mass atrocities–The Holocaust, Rwanda, Darfur, and Congo–asking each of us to learn from the mistakes of the past in order to inform how we, as an international community, respond to similar issues today. Big Picture Instructional Design (www.bigpictureinstructional.com) and Righteous Pictures (www.righteouspictures.com) collaborated [...]
Now Available: Journal of Media Literacy Education: Volume 4 Issue 1. This special issue features program highlights from the NAMLE 2011 Conference held July 22-25th in Philadelphia, PA. The conference theme was “Global Visions, Local Connections: Voices in Media Literacy Education” and the research articles, Voices from the Field, and professional resource reviews stay true to that [...]
Please register before May 15th to get early bird discounts for educators and media scholars for the MEDUCON Austin to be held from June 8th to 10th at the University of Texas Alumni Center, 2110 San Jacinto Boulevard, Austin, TX 78712. Conference objectives: Learn and understand ways of enhancing the positive influence of media & [...]
The NCTE Media Literacy Award Committee is proud to announce that it will award the seventh annual Media Literacy Award at the Annual Convention in Las Vegas, November 15-18, 2012. Go to ncte.org for more details. Previous award winners are profiled on FrankBaker.com. Deadline for application for the 2012 award is Monday, June 30th, 2012. The [...]
A joint position statement was recently issued by the National Association for the Education of Young Children and the Fred Rogers Center for Early Learning and Children’s Media at Saint Vincent College. Technology and Interactive Media as Tools in Early Childhood Programs Serving Children from Birth through Age 8 View the interactive PDF below, and see [...]
We invite you to join/rejoin NAMLE to help forward our vision—to help individuals of all ages develop the habits of inquiry and the skills of expression that they need to be critical thinkers, effective communicators and active citizens in today’s world. Your voice is essential as we gear up for the 2013 conference in Los Angeles, [...]
Position Part time Executive Director, approximately 20 hours per week. This is a “virtual” position. The Executive Director may be located anywhere within the United States. The Executive Director must be available to attend the NAMLE conference (July 11-13, 2013) and the NAMLE Board retreat (January 11-13, 2013). Contract dates September 1, 2012 through September [...]
1) What do you do? I am a Focus teacher and History teacher at a private school for middle and high-school students with learning disabilities in New York City, Winston Preparatory School. As a Focus teacher, I work one-on-one with students in various academic areas based on need, including decoding, encoding (spelling), reading comprehension, written expression, academic [...]
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