Digital and Media Literacy: Connecting Culture and Classroom / Edition 1

by Renee Hobbs

Overview

Integrate the power of media for a cutting-edge curriculum

This book by a leading authority on media literacy education shows secondary teachers how to use media to help students access, analyze, evaluate, and communicate messages in a wide variety of forms. The author demonstrates how to incorporate media literacy into the secondary classroom, providing the tools teachers need to:

• Effectively foster students’ critical thinking, collaboration, and communication skills
• Integrate media literacy into every subject
• Select meaningful media texts for use in the classroom

A companion website offers video demonstrations and sample lesson plans.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781412981583
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	07/12/2011
Pages:	232
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 9.90(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Renee Hobbs is Professor and Founding Director of the Harrington School of Communication and Media at the University of Rhode Island, and Interim Director of the Graduate Program in Library and Information Studies. Professor Hobbs is one of the nation's leading authorities on media literacy education. Through community and global service and as a leader, researcher, teacher, and advocate, Hobbs has worked to advance the quality of digital and media literacy education in the United States and around the world. She founded the Media Education Lab, whose mission is to improve the quality of media literacy education through research and community service. In the early 1990s, she created the first national teacher education program in media literacy at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Journal for Media Literacy Education, an open-access peer reviewed journal. In 2012, she served as a Fellow for the American Library Association Office of Information Technology Policy. As a field-builder, she helped found the Partnership for Media Education, which evolved into the National Association for Media Literacy Education (NAMLE), the national membership organization for media literacy. She has sought and received exemptions on behalf of K-12 educators to protect fair use of copy-protected digital media as part of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), helping advance the benefits of digital learning for all teachers and students.

Renee Hobbs received an Ed.D in Human Development from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, an M.A. in Communication from the University of Michigan, and a B.A. with a double major in English Literature and Film/Video Studies from the University of Michigan.

Table of Contents

Preface vii

Publisher's Acknowledgments x

About the Author xi

Access 1

1 Why Digital and Media Literacy 2

2 Research as Authentic Inquiry 25

Analyze 47

3 Critical Questions, Close Reading 48

4 The Power of Representation 67

Create 81

5 Composing With Media Across the Curriculum 82

Reflect 103

6 Protection and Empowerment 104

7 Life Online 123

Take Action 143

8 What in the World: Teaching With Current Events 144

9 Infusing Digital and Media Literacy Across the Curiculum 167

Endnotes 187

Bibliography 197

Index 205

Editorial Reviews

“As our society becomes more global, schools must embrace a curriculum that builds and supports students’ critical thinking and 21st century skills. This book provides a purposeful technology- and media-driven path for teachers and curriculum specialists to follow in preparing students to become global citizens.”

Abbey Spoonmore Duggins

"This book provides a wide variety of ways teachers can use technology to their advantage in the classroom. We need books like this one to show us how to utilize the power of the Internet and create valuable learning opportunities to 21st century students. "

Melody L. Aldrich

"Every teacher desires to integrate technology into their classroom instruction. This book provides step-by-step lessons and explanations. This is a must-read for anyone still tentative about immersing their instruction with the digital age. "

Michelle Strom

"In her new book Media Literacy Education, Renee Hobbs demonstrates that using digital media in the classroom can support the development of print literacy skills, as well as entertain and engage. This book links traditional skills such as authentic inquiry and the use of critical questions to students’ pop culture, bringing relevance to the learning experience. In doing so, it empowers both teachers and students to make literacy experiences more relevant to students’ interests, everyday life, and important current and cultural experiences. "

Kristin Hokanson

"Renee Hobbs makes a powerful case for media education as a touchstone for all areas of the curriculum. Even better, Media Literacy Education provides the tools for fostering media-literate learners—a must in the 21st century. "

Nancy Frey

"By providing numerous examples, tools, and strategies, Media Literacy Education invites us to understand, critique, and create media. Renee Hobbs builds on theories of adolescent learning as well as current research in media studies to provide a clear framework for integrating media literacy across the curriculum. We have been told that we are supposed to engage our 21st-Century students. Hobbs continues to show us how. "

Troy Hicks

"This book gives teachers ideas for actively engaging students in meaningful conversations. It helps us to find new ways to challenge students to think on a higher level. "

Patti Grammens

"Renee Hobbs is a teacher at heart. Drawing from her vast knowledge of media literacy education and her experiences in secondary classrooms, Hobbs delivers on a number of fronts: critical thinking, Common Core standards, lesson planning, and communicating. To read Renee Hobbs is to take action! "

Donna Alvermann

"Renee Hobbs is a teacher at heart. Drawing from her vast knowledge of media literacy education and her experiences in secondary classrooms, Hobbs delivers on a number of fronts: critical thinking, Common Core standards, lesson planning, and communicating. To read Renee Hobbs is to take action!"--Donna Alvermann, Distinguished Research Professor (3/21/2011 12:00:00 AM)

"Renee Hobbs makes a powerful case for media education as a touchstone for all areas of the curriculum. Even better, Media Literacy Education provides the tools for fostering media-literate learners--a must in the 21st century."--Nancy Frey, Professor of Literacy (3/22/2011 12:00:00 AM)

"Every teacher desires to integrate technology into their classroom instruction. This book provides step-by-step lessons and explanations. This is a must-read for anyone still tentative about immersing their instruction with the digital age."--Michelle Strom, Language Arts Teacher (1/4/2011 12:00:00 AM)

"This book gives teachers ideas for actively engaging students in meaningful conversations. It helps us to find new ways to challenge students to think on a higher level."--Patti Grammens, Science Department Chair (1/4/2011 12:00:00 AM)

"This book provides a wide variety of ways teachers can use technology to their advantage in the classroom. We need books like this one to show us how to utilize the power of the Internet and create valuable learning opportunities to 21st century students."--Melody L. Aldrich, English Deptartment Chair (1/4/2011 12:00:00 AM)

"In her new book Media Literacy Education, Renee Hobbs demonstrates that using digital media in the classroom can support the development of print literacy skills, as well as entertain and engage. This book links traditional skills such as authentic inquiry and the use of critical questions to students' pop culture, bringing relevance to the learning experience. In doing so, it empowers both teachers and students to make literacy experiences more relevant to students' interests, everyday life, and important current and cultural experiences."

--Kristin Hokanson, Technology Integration Specialist (3/22/2011 12:00:00 AM)

"By providing numerous examples, tools, and strategies, Media Literacy Education invites us to understand, critique, and create media. Renee Hobbs builds on theories of adolescent learning as well as current research in media studies to provide a clear framework for integrating media literacy across the curriculum. We have been told that we are supposed to engage our 21st-Century students. Hobbs continues to show us how."

--Troy Hicks, Assistant Professor of English (3/21/2011 12:00:00 AM)

"As our society becomes more global, schools must embrace a curriculum that builds and supports students' critical thinking and 21st century skills. This book provides a purposeful technology- and media-driven path for teachers and curriculum specialists to follow in preparing students to become global citizens."

--Abbey Spoonmore Duggins, Instructional Coach (1/4/2011 12:00:00 AM)

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