Information & Media Literacy

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This page lists ideas and resources about information and media literacy. For scope & sequence of info-literacy, please see: Information Literacy Scope & Sequence. Also see: The New Basic Skills.

When the classroom teacher, technologist, and librarian all come together team teach media literacy using a real, existing classroom assignment over a long term, it works better than to teach it in isolation.

[edit] Reading, Listening, Activities

[edit] Formative Evaluation Papers

Stiggins, Richard J. and Chappius, Jan (2006). What a difference a word makes
Stiggins, Richard J. (2005). Rethinking the Motivational Dynamics of Productive Assessment.
A list of Formative Evaluation Papers: http://www.measuredprogress.org/Products/ATI/ATIPapers.html

[edit] Resources

Information Literacy Podcast from Bob Sprankle
NCQ Talk -- Telling a story Podcast
EdTechTalk#53: An Interview with School Librarian Extraordinaire Joyce Valenza
Big 6 and other *ALA's Information Literacy Standards
21st Century Information Fluency Project: http://21cif.imsa.edu/tutorials/challenge Featured Search Challenge
Noodle Tools
Discussion transcript from Chronicle of Higher Ed: http://chronicle.com/live/2007/03/oblinger/
The curriculum used by Carrie McLaren to teach 12th graders at The Berkeley Carroll School in Brooklyn NY.
NCTE has taken the position that Media Literacy should be taught as an English Course.
Media Literacy at Shambles
MediaLit Kit™ Framework for K-12 Media Literacy is very good.
LOC Citation Education

[edit] Books that put this into a global context

The World is Flat - Thomas Friedman
A Whole New Mind - Dan Pink

[edit] Schools With Strong Media Literacy Programs

excerpts from ISED-L 11/28

In the Baltimore-Washington area, we are well-known for media literacy instruction. A combined library/technology department, we have a well-developed US elective that is focused on four themes: the impact of images, politics and citizenship in a media age, the selling of addiction and the media in war and peace. Our librarians work with our tech teachers to teach media, visual and information literacy thru our MS tech classes and we do discrete lessons in our LS on advertising and media stereotyping, as developmentally appropriate. Media production is part of all these efforts since only by that process can students experience making editorial and ethical decisions. Marilyn Meyerson, The Key School
Horace Mann School has been at the forefront of Media Literacy instruction. They even renamed their Technology Department to include Media. Adam Kenner is their Director of Technology. Much of their work has been inspired (initially at least) from the New Mexico New Media Association.