Variety describes Miss Representation as “An admirable work of media literacy education…” The film premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, aired on OWN, and now is available on DVD. Mainstream media continues to generate limited, distorted and often disparaging images of girls and women. These images continue to shape girls and women, as well as boys and men, [...]
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 [...]
Arlington, VA—Today’s students are surrounded by so many different sources of information and media, that it can overwhelming. As part of its ongoing efforts to promote student journalism and civic engagement, PBS NewsHour Extra is pleased to announce its newly updated media literacy curriculum. The curriculum is designed to help students critically evaluate media and [...]
NAMLE member Maddy Steinhart has been working with Project Girl Performance Collective (PGPC) in New York. Maddy described how their work is promotes media literacy: “Project Girl links critical thinking and viewing skills with media literacy. There target audience is girls k-12. There is a very delicate balance between traditions and self-esteem and the way girls are [...]
NAMLE strongly encourages educators who teach media literacy to consider applying for this national award. The deadline is June 30, 2012. The Beck Foundation has underwritten the $2,000 prize. The winner(s) will be recognized during a ceremony at the NCTE 2012 national conference in Las Vegas. Details are available at: http://www.ncte.org/volunteer/groups/mediacomm/medialitaward
Adobe Youth Voices has announced an exciting new program: Adobe Youth Voices Aspire Awards. From their press release: This is an electrifying online media festival that will honor young people worldwide who have creatively communicated their vision for change in their communities and their lives through video, photography, graphic arts, and audio. The prizes being offered [...]
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