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Media Literacy in Urban Schools

Jiwon Yoon teaches Media Literacy at the Frankford Friends School in Philadelphia.

Lab team members demonstrate media production at the Frankford Friends School in Philadelphia.

Urban schools face important issues when it comes to teaching and learning media literacy skills. The Media Education Lab has partenered with the Russell Byers Charter Elementary School in Philadelphia to better understand the role of mass media, popular culture and technology in the lives of young children from an urban community.

Events

Messy Engagement: The Heart of the Common Core
RI-LINK CONFERENCE, August 13, East Bay Educational Collaborative, 317 Market Street, Warren, RI. RENEE HOBBS KEYNOTE
Summer Institute in Digital Literacy
Online registration is now open! Join us in Providence July 14 - 19 for a hands-on, minds-on professional development program for educators and librarians.
Hobbs and Moore on Youth Media Histories
Renee Hobbs and David Cooper Moore are presenting two papers at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) conference in Chicago, IL on Saturday, March 9, 2013 09:00AM-10:45AM (Session…
What Motivates You? How Attitudes About Digital Media Shape Teaching and Learning
Renee Hobbs offers a workshop for school library media specialists on Friday, March 8, 2013 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Warwick, RI. She explores how teacher motivations for using…

Curriculum Materials

The Media Education Lab is one of the leading providers of multimedia curriculum resources for K-12 media literacy education. Take advantage of our extensive collection of free resources below:

A Preview of Powerful Voices for Kids
POWERFUL VOICES FOR KIDS helps elementary educators to introduce digital and media literacy into the PK - 6 curriculum to build literacy, language, critical thinking, creative and collaborative skills by…
Digital and Media Literacy: Connecting Culture and Classroom
Learn the secrets of media literacy pedagogy in Grades 7 - 12 and maximize the power of mass media, popular culture and digital media for teaching and learning.
Foster Youth Program in Media Literacy
We're learning-by-doing to discover how media literacy analysis and production experiences can support the development of teens in foster care.
Media Literacy Smartphone
Available for purchase for the first time ever, the media literacy smartphone helps students learn to ask questions about what they read, see, watch and listen to

Research and Scholarship

Some of the publications of members of the Media Education Lab team:

Hobbs, R.. (2013). Improvization and Strategic Risk Taking in Informal Learning with Digital Media Literacy. Learning, Media and Technology,
By Jonathan Friesem, Kelsey Greene, Lisa Provorova, Tim Tierney & Renee Hobbs. (2012, September). First Star URI RAM Academy. Kingston, RI: Media Education Lab.,
Hobbs, R. & RobbGrieco, M.. (2012, November). African-American Children's Active Reasoning about Media Texts as a Precursor to Media Literacy in the United States. Journal of Children and Media,
Hobbs, R.. (2011, September). It's All in the Family: Keynote Address to the International Association for Visual Literacy. Philadelphia: Temple University
Moore, D.C.. (2011, June). Asking Questions First: Navigating Popular Culture and Transgression in an Inquiry Based Media Literacy Classroom. Action in Teacher Education, (33) 219 - 230.
Hobbs, R.. (2011, June). Connecting Kids with News in their Community. Nieman Reports, (65) 48-52.
Hobbs, R.. (2011, November). Digital and Media Literacy: The Pleasures and Perils of Online Pranking. ASCA School Counselor, 31 - 35.
Bailin, E.. (2011, January). Learning about Flash Mobs Helps Children Develop News Literacy Skills. Spot.Us,
Renee Hobbs, Henry Cohn-Geltner and John Landis. (2011). Views on the News. Media Literacy Empowerment Competencies in the Elementary Grades. Cecilia von Feilitzen, Ulla Carlsson, Catharina Bucht. The International Clearinghouse on Children, Youth and Media, 43-55.
Hobbs. R.. (2010, September). Empowerment and protection: Complementary strategies for digital and media literacy education in the United States.. Formare, (70) 1 - 17.