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Curriculum Kits: Media Constructions of Sustainability

[ 0 ] December 13, 2012 |

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Description

This free online curriculum kit provides teachers, college faculty and community educators with the materials needed to engage students in a dynamic and constructivist process of learning how sustainability has been presented in the media with a particular focus on issues related to food, water and agriculture. Each lesson integrates media literacy and critical thinking with a content focus on a particular aspect of sustainability. Constant themes throughout the kit include social justice, climate change, energy, economics and unintended consequences. The subject areas covered include environmental science, agronomy, anthropology, sociology, economics, journalism and the creative arts among many others. The kit contains 19 lessons, each with a unique pedagogical structure and content concern.

Resource submitted by NAMLE Member Project Look Sharp

PROJECT LOOK SHARP is a media literacy initiative of the School of Humanities and Sciences at Ithaca College, working in collaboration with local school districts, New York State BOCES, the National Association of Media Literacy Education (NAMLE) and other national media literacy organizations. The project is designed to promote and support the integration of media literacy and critical thinking into curricula at all grade levels and across instructional areas, as well as to evaluate the effectiveness of media literacy education in the schools. This curriculum-driven initiative works directly with teachers and support staff to reach students and aims to foster a spirit of collaboration among educators using media literacy. Project Look Sharp provides curriculum materials, strategies and advice for media literacy instruction, and acts as a liaison between educators and the media literacy field at large.

The Resource Hub Member Benefit

The Resource Hub is a collective ‘smackdown’ of curricula and other useful links that serve, intersect and represent the broad array of stakeholders in media literacy education that comprise our membership.

NAMLE Members: Do you have curricula of your own, or recommended resources you’d like to share with the greater media literacy community thorugh NAMLE.net?  We would love to post links and embedded media in the hub and attribute it to you or your organization.

Please fill out the following Google Form: http://bit.ly/NamleRec to submit your resource.

Email rdaunic@namle.net with questions.

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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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