media literacy

Contains twenty-seven lesson plans designed to help teachers integrate media literacy concepts, and skills into the curriculum, each with a rationale, activity, and assessment and adaptation suggestions, covering photography, multimedia, video, print, graphic novels, music, video games, and advertising. Includes a companion CD.

McLuhan's classic work on the impact the media have on human life andperception.

Offers teachers ready-to-use lesson plans to help them create classroom lessons that develop students' critical thinking skills in response to the information they are exposed to through television, the Internet, movies, and the media. Includes a CD-ROM with additional resources.

Provides a comprehensive resource for integrating media literacy with preparation for standardized tests and offers reproducible activity pages for kindergarten through twelfth-grade specialists and teachers.

Explores how media literacy has influenced political elections, discussing the use of the Internet and television in campaigns, the importance of critical thinking in evaluating media messages, and the concepts and techniques used in political advertising.

Pema, Bounce and Jagroop must face off against a greedy developer as they fight for control of their airways.

An illustrated overview of Web 2.0 tools that can be useful in classrooms or school library programs, explaining the benefits of digital literacy, and describing social bookmarking sites, media sharing, social networking, digital mapping, and related topics.

A resource for school library media specialists that discusses various aspects of information inquiry, covering theoretical and practical aspects of information literacy teaching and learning, and presents columns from "School Library Media Activities Monthly" on more than fifty "Key Words for Instruction.".