mass media in education

"Featuring reflective activities and lesson ideas that can be adapted for educational settings from higher education to the K-12 spectrum, community centers, and libraries, this resource presents ten chapters that explore such timely issues as how to deal with controversial topics in the classroom, the effects of misinformation/disinformation on civics in society, why the media underrepresents certain people in their programming, the digital divide and where libraries fit in, how injustice exacerbates public health issues, and global conceptions of social justice and media literacy examined through various world events"--Provided by publisher.

Provides ways to bring media literacy into the K-12 classroom through any school subject matter, and teaches students skills that enable them to become knowledgeable media consumers and producers.

Provides ways to bring media literacy into the K-12 classroom through any school subject matter, and teaches students skills that enable them to become knowledgeable media consumers and producers.

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.