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Curriculum Kits: Media Constructions of Sustainability

Curriculum Kits: Media Constructions of Sustainability

[ 0 ] December 13, 2012

This free online curriculum kit from Project Look Sharp 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.

Project Look Sharp’s Media Literacy Summer Institute 2012, 5-day Immersion Course

Project Look Sharp’s Media Literacy Summer Institute 2012, 5-day Immersion Course

[ 0 ] April 24, 2012

NAMLE organizational member, Project Look Sharp, a media literacy initiative at Ithaca College, will be hosting its annual Media Literacy Summer Institute from July 16 through July 20 at Ithaca College, a private college in upstate New York. The Summer Institute is a five-day immersion course in integrating critical thinking, media analysis and media production [...]

JMLE Issue 2 Feature: The Epistemological Equation: Integrating Media Analysis into the Core Curriculum

JMLE Issue 2 Feature: The Epistemological Equation: Integrating Media Analysis into the Core Curriculum

[ 0 ] April 2, 2010

Teacher/author, Chris Sperry, draws lessons from 30 years of integrating media analysis into high school social studies and English classes. He describes a high school world history project where students role play world leaders who debate solutions to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the Middle East. Sperry shows how media literacy instructional methods and core concepts link to the development of core knowledge, skills, attitudes and motivation in adolescents.