New Zealand Ministry of Education
Te Kete Ipurangi: E Competencies and Key Competencies
Kellie McRobert outlines some work that has been done linking e-Learning and the key competencies. In this talk Kellie McRobert explains how she has developed an e-Learning framework she calls 'e-competencies' and how these have been...
Other
Media Education Lab: The Cost of Copyright Confusion for Media Literacy
Presents research on how confusing perceptions of copyright law can adversely affect media literacy educators and their students. (5m39s)
Other
Netsafe Net Basics
New Zealand-based cybersafety organization provides access to entertaining, educational animated videos on topics associated with online safety and media awareness. Find episodes on the dangers of downloading, firewalls, phishing,...
Other
Foundation for a Better Life: Pass It on Television Spots
Public service announcements put a different twist on the commercial advertising messages typically analyzed in classes about media literacy. Find over three dozen PSAs at this site, where you can view segments on caring for the less...
Crash Course
Crash Course Media Literacy #1: Introduction to Media Literacy
First thing's first: what is media literacy? In our first episode, Jay breaks this question down and explains how we're going to use it to explore our media-saturated world. Media literacy is the ability to access, analyze, evaluate,...
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Crash Course Media Literacy #2: History of Media Literacy, Part 1
In order to understand the history of media literacy, we have to go all the way back to straight up literacy. In the first half of our look at the history of media literacy, Jay takes us all the way back to Ancient Greece and forward...
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Crash Course Media Literacy #3: History of Media Literacy, Part 2
Jay continues our journey through the history of media literacy with the arrival of movies, television, and the other screens that now permeate our lives - along with some of the different approaches to media literacy that these...
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Crash Course Media Literacy #4: Media and the Mind
You are constantly surrounded by media, so the question is: how does your brain handle all of that? The unfortunate answer is that our brains have a lot of processes that not super helpful for media literacy, but hopefully, with a little...
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Crash Course Media Literacy #5: Media and Money
Media isn't just movies and newspapers and TV shows, it's also a part of society that involves a lot of money. And all that money has implications for the media that gets created. Media is created by people -- a range of people, making a...
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Crash Course Media Literacy #6: Influence and Persuasion
We've mentioned already that there's a lot of money in media and a huge chunk of that money is spent on trying to get you to do something - buy something, vote a certain way, change a behavior. How does advertising work? And what's the...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Brand Recognition
Article with discussion questions provides information about advertising to children. Students gain an understanding of the number of brands toddlers and pre-schoolers are able to recognize, even those who can't read.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Political Cartoons
Students take a look at the persuasive techniques used in political cartoons, then answer questions to reinforce the concept. [3:39]
Other
Creators365: What Is Media? Kids Video (You Tube)
In this video, students learn about how people show their ideas or feelings through not just words or gestures but other ways of communicating.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Tech Tv: What Are the New Media Literacies?
Watch a short video that explains what it means to be media literate in the twenty-first century. Being critical consumers of media no longer suffices; media literacy now also encompasses the skills required to be competent producers of...
Edutopia
Edutopia: Media Smarts: Kids Learn How to Navigate the Multimedia World
Teachers are discovering the value of imparting media-literacy skills, from critical analysis of news programs, commercials, and films to basic design and video-production techniques. By looking at communication via these different types...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Above the Noise Collection
In Above the Noise, a YouTube series for teens, host Myles Bess takes viewers along on his journey to cut through the hype and dive deep into the research behind the issues affecting their daily lives. Every other week, the series...
Crash Course
Crash Course Media Literacy: Preview
Join Jay Smooth next week for the start of our next miniseries: Crash Course Media Literacy!