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#There are so many sources of resources for media-literacy education. Frank Baker's Media Literacy Clearinghouse is great. Is there a need for any kind of formalized national clearing house? Government or NGA funded?
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#There are so many sources of resources for media-literacy education. Frank Baker's Media Literacy Clearinghouse is great. But they are scattered and uncoordinated. Is there a need for any kind of formalized national clearing house? Government or NGA funded?
  
  
 
#What about a weekly five-minute update that keys off the news and includes perhaps a three-minute summary of a major national issue in the news followed by two minutes of directed activities for the viewing students? Is this something Newsy could help with?
 
#What about a weekly five-minute update that keys off the news and includes perhaps a three-minute summary of a major national issue in the news followed by two minutes of directed activities for the viewing students? Is this something Newsy could help with?

Latest revision as of 01:30, 16 July 2009

Media Literacy Resources

  • Philadelphia conference: Rebooting the News
http://www.rebootingthenews.org
  • The consensus statement from Philadelphia
http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Reboot-statement
  • "News Literacy" -- the pilot curriculum from Stony Brook
http://www.mediagiraffe.org/node/671
  • The Stony Brook conference on news literacy (fall 2008)
Proposal unveiled to hire 50 laid-off journalists to teach "news literacy" to non-journalism college majors
http://www.mediagiraffe.org/stonybrook
http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Stonybrook
  • AUDIO: Media literacy hits the real world -- lessons from Boston English
http://www.mediagiraffe.org/node/573

TWO QUESTIONS

  1. There are so many sources of resources for media-literacy education. Frank Baker's Media Literacy Clearinghouse is great. But they are scattered and uncoordinated. Is there a need for any kind of formalized national clearing house? Government or NGA funded?


  1. What about a weekly five-minute update that keys off the news and includes perhaps a three-minute summary of a major national issue in the news followed by two minutes of directed activities for the viewing students? Is this something Newsy could help with?