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Marketplace Feature: Popular Culture, New Media and Digital Literacy in Early Childhood

[ 0 ] April 12, 2011 |

Jackie Marsh (Editor) offers a range of perspectives on children’s multimodal experiences, providing a ground-breaking account of the ways in which children engage with popular culture, media and digital literacy practices from their earliest years. This seminal text focuses on children from birth to eight years, addressing issues such as:

  • media and identity construction
  • media literacy practices in the home
  • the changing nature of literacy in technologically advanced societies
  • the place of popular and media texts in children’s lives and the use of such texts in the curriculum.

With an unmatchable team of international experts evaluating topics from text-messaging to the Teletubbies, this book is a long-overdue, fascinating and illuminating read for policy-makers, educational researchers and practitioners, and crosses over to appeal to those in the linguistics field. NAMLE member, Jeff Share, comments that “this book is a powerful collection of brilliant educators with excellent essays. I highly recommend it.” [buy now through the NAMLE Marketplace]

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About Rhys Daunic: Rhys is a member of the NAMLE board of directors currently serving the Executive Committee as Secretary, and is chair of the Communications Committee. He is a Brooklyn based educator and consultant who integrates media literacy education into a variety of learning environments around the country. He is co-founder and director of The Media Spot, where he specializes in working with organizations, educators and students to design and implement curricula that align media literacy concepts with learning goals through 21st century forms of communication. Rhys also works with schools and non-profits to create and maintain customized online learning networks, sharing all teaching resources, production notes, articles, tutorials, and archived student productions with the educational community through themediaspot.org. Additionally, Rhys provides workshops and embedded professional development to K-12 schools throughout New York City as an educational technology consultant with Digital School Solutions (DSS). View author profile.

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