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Category Archives: Media literacy
Visual Learning: Are You Really What You Wear? — YES! Magazine
Images, photos, and pictures stimulate the mind. For the viewer, they offer a chance to connect and question. They also offer potential for play and imagination, and pulling the observer into purposeful messages. Most often, newspaper and magazine readers take … Continue reading
Education Week Teacher: How Jay-Z Can Help Us Remix Education
By José Vilson Recently, I bought “Watch The Throne,” Jay-Z and Kanye West’s collaborative album. Since Jay-Z’s debut album “Reasonable Doubt,” he’s undergone a metamorphosis: from a young spitfire to a mature statesman, reigning over the hip-hop community lyrically and … Continue reading
Posted in Educator Resources, Media literacy, Outside Source
Tagged Education Reform, Education Week Teacher, Jay Z, José Vilson
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Good Culture: Something Doesn’t Add Up
Dylan C. Lathrop Senior Editorial Designer Craig Damrauer Artist The former CBS show Numb3rs, otherwise known as CSI-Mathor “the show with the number three in its title,” is one of those series that seems like it … Continue reading
Posted in Educator Resources, Media literacy, Outside Source
Tagged classroom, Good Culture, lessons, Math, NUMB3RS
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Teaching Media Literacy through Critical Thinking with ‘The Help’
Two key concepts in media literacy are: that all media construct versions of reality and that media is interpreted through individual lenses. These concepts are at the core of the recent controversy over the new movie “The Help”. To be … Continue reading
Posted in Civic Engagement, Educator Resources, Media literacy
Tagged Maria Puente, Media Literacy, The Help, USA Today
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Fantasy football adds up for students
Okay this one is a little older but its got some good content and I figured it was timely. By John Barr Special to ESPN.com SAN JOSE, Calif. — Jeneva Westendorf walks briskly through the courtyard of Foothill High School, … Continue reading
Posted in Educator Resources, Games, Media literacy, Outside Source
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High-Tech Teaching in a Low-Tech Classroom
By Jennifer L. Barnett As 21st-century teachers, we are expected to help students master the technological tools they will use in college and the workplace. But in many districts, the one-computer classroom is not extinct. So how can we do … Continue reading
Posted in Media literacy, New Media, Outside Source
Tagged hi tech teaching low tech classroom
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Book Review: Olympians Series by George O’Connor Published by FirstSecond
While I was at San Diego Comic Con I had the opportunity to visit the FirstSecond booth. I was particularly impressed with their collection of grade school level graphic novels. After the convention, I had them send me copies of … Continue reading
Posted in Comics, Educator Resources, Media literacy
Tagged First Second, George O'Connor, mythology in the classroom, Olympians, Zeus
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Rabbit Trail Learning with Emergent Curriculum Part 2
In Rabbit Trail Learning Part 1, I introduced the concept of emergent curriculum. So what does emergent curriculum look like in today’s classroom? Let’s look at an emergent curriculum in a History class. Emergent curriculum comes from the marriage of … Continue reading
ISSUES OF U.S. COPYRIGHT LAW RELATING TO THE USE OF MOVIES IN THE CLASSROOM
Classrooms in Public Schools and Nonprofit Educational Institutions: Rented or Purchased Movies May Be Played By Teachers Without a License by James A. Frieden, Esq. www.teachwithmovies.org Section 110(1) of Title 17 of the United States Code grants a specific exemption … Continue reading
Syfy’s Eureka Season 4 Teacher’s Media Guide is here
The Syfy Channel has several series that engage our youth population with their fanciful story lines. One of my favorites is Eureka. Now that I’ve started to do Teacher Media Guides for television series Eureka was a logical next choice. … Continue reading
Posted in Filmmaking, Media Guide, Media literacy
Tagged Eureka, Eureka in the Classroom, pop goes the classroom, STEAM integration, Syfy
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