Kids First’s 2012 film critics search campaign for parents of kids ages 6 to 14 in the greater NYC area is now underway and goes through the end of the year. The winners review new films and DVDs before they are released and have opportunities to attend premieres and Red Carpets events from time to time. [...]
Benjamin Thevenin presents a professional resource review of RIP! A Remix Manifesto (2007) (video) in the current issue of the Journal of Media Literacy Education. To access or submit reviews, go to jmle.org. http://jmle.org/blog/?p=668
NAMLE is pleased to share video remarks, directed toward youth, from the Office of the US Secretary of State: What an affirmation for each of us that our work promoting media literacy education is important and that NAMLE’s vision, mission and strategies are recognizably aligned to the evolving visions and policies of the US Department of State. [...]
“Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.”—Gertrude Stein, American writer and poet In the latest ASCD Express update, debates are held regarding how educators can help students use media literacy skills to deal with the unlimited amounts of information that grow exponentially on the Internet. How is the practice [...]
Frank Baker passed this on to us from Wired Magazine’s Geek Dad blog. “Cultural Anthropologist, Mimi Ito, gives us an excellent summary of just why it is important to engage children with digital media from elementary school onwards. It runs 7 minutes. View the video on Wired.com
October is National Information Literacy Awareness Month. In 2009, President Obama issued the first presidential proclamation, acknowledging the critical importance of information literacy to the social and economic welfare of the American people. Knowing how to find, evaluate, and use effectively information from a variety of media and information resources should no longer be taken [...]
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