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Marketplace Feature: Media Education Goes to School, by Allison Butler

Marketplace Feature: Media Education Goes to School, by Allison Butler

[ 0 ] November 14, 2011

Media Education Goes to School: Young People Make Meaning of Media & Urban Education. by Allison Butler (Peter Lang/$32.53 + free shipping). This book examines the struggles involved in integrating media education across the curriculum at a small urban school. Based on quasi-ethnographic research–specifically semi-formal individual and group interviews with twenty-one participants and participant-observation–the text focuses on [...]

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Brian Johnson

Marketplace Feature: We’ve Scene it All Before, by Brian Johnson

[ 0 ] May 18, 2011

NAMLE’s May 2011 Feature: We’ve Scene it All Before: Using Film Clips in Diversity Awareness Training Brian Johnson (Bloomsburg University) harnesses the power of mainstream Hollywood film to enhance educational sessions about diversity and social justice. This resource manual offers practical guidance on how to effectively use the concept of difference as a starting point towards [...]

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

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 [...]

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Marketplace Feature: Media Literacy, Social Networking and the Web 2.0 Environment for the K-12 Educator

Marketplace Feature: Media Literacy, Social Networking and the Web 2.0 Environment for the K-12 Educator

[ 0 ] March 15, 2011

NAMLE member Belinha De Abreu uses media literacy as a lens through which to view and discuss social networking and Web 2.0 environments in her new book, Media Literacy, Social Networking and the Web 2.0 Environment for the K-12 Educator (Peter Lang Publishing). Order Now!

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Marketplace Feature: Mediactive by Dan Gillmor

Marketplace Feature: Mediactive by Dan Gillmor

[ 0 ] January 17, 2011

We’re in an age of information overload, and too much of what we watch, hear and read is mistaken, deceitful or even dangerous. Yet you and I can take control and make media serve us — all of us — by being active consumers and participants. Here’s how…

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NAMLE Interviews Douglas Rushkoff (Video)

[ 4 ] October 15, 2010

Douglas Rushkoff is a best-selling author, award-winning documentary filmmaker, and regularly lectures on the intersection of media, art, and society.  His new book, Program or Be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age, is a highly readable manifesto about the impact of the digital environment on human behavior.  In this interview the point-of-view outlined in [...]

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