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Teaching Media Literacy

El Sawyer demonstrates media production techniques.

Katie Donnelly and Tanya Jackson lead Girl Scouts in a body image activity.

Kelly Mendoza addresses cyber-bullying with Girl Scouts.

Mike RobbGrieco and Dave Moore lead a music production activity.

Dave Moore explains the idea of matcing music to meaning.

Nicole Warncke and Tina Peterson lead a workshop on advertising literacy.

Leslye Saul addresses Philadelphia School teachers at our Media Literacy Institute.

Mike RobbGrieco leads teachers in thinking about messages in hip-hop music.

Jiwon Yoon leads a media literacy lesson at Frankford Friends School.

Media literacy can be taught at all levels, on its own or embedded in other subjects such as English, Social Studies, Health or Language Arts. The Media Education Lab offers teacher education programs and workshops, as well as an online library of media literacy curriculum materials.

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.
Shaping the Future 2: Innovation, Education and Entrepreneurship
Powerful Voices for Kids at IRA Conference in San Antonio
Spend 3 hours with Renee Hobbs at this deep-dive workshop that shows you how to bring digital and media literacy to elementary-level students Sun, Apr 21, 2013: 3:00 PM - 5:45 PM

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:

Provorova, L. . (2013, March). A Story of Conflict and Collaboration: Media Literacy, Video Production and Disadvantaged Youth. Philadelphia: Temple University
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. . (2011, September). The State of Media Literacy: A Response to Potter. Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, (55) 419 - 430.
Hobbs, R.. (2011, September). It's All in the Family: Keynote Address to the International Association for Visual Literacy. Philadelphia: Temple University
Hobbs, R., Yoon, J. & Al-Humaidan, R. Ebrahimi, A., Cabral, N., . (2011, August). Online Digital Media in Elementary School. Journal of Middle East Media, (7) 1 - 23.
Hobbs, R., Cipollone, M., Bailin, E., Moore, D.C. & Schlesinger, M.. (2011, June). Young Audiences and New Authors in a Multimedia Landscape. 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, February). Visual literacy, media literacy and the rise of digital culture. Les Dossiers de 'Audiovisuel (France),