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Television: Teachers’ Friend?!

Television: Teachers’ Friend?!

[ 0 ] November 8, 2011

In the November 2011 issue of Kappan,  Deborah L. Linebarger (deborah-linebarger@uiowa.edu), Director of the Children’s Media Lab at the University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA  (pp.62-65) compiles previous and current research, including a number of recent, large-scale research projects, that confirms television’s value in teaching rudimentary concepts to children, especiall those from low-income homes. She [...]

Renee Hobbs & Amy Petersen Jensen to Edit the Journal of Media Literacy Education

Renee Hobbs & Amy Petersen Jensen to Edit the Journal of Media Literacy Education

[ 0 ] August 30, 2009

The Journal of Media Literacy Education is an online interdisciplinary journal that supports the development of research, scholarship and the pedagogy of media literacy education. The journal provides a forum for established and emerging scholars, media professionals and educational practitioners in and out of schools. As an extended conceptualization of literacy, media literacy education helps [...]

2007 Media Literacy Education Research Summit

[ 0 ] June 23, 2007

The first-ever Media Literacy Education Research Summit was called by NAMLE (AMLA), hoping that researchers from a variety of fields – from education to public health to psychology – would germinate a new research agenda for the next 10 years. What emerged from the two day event held in St. Louis the last weekend of [...]