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People From Many Walks of Life Enrich The Media Literacy Movement
The Simpsons Meet Mark Twain: Analyzing Popular Media Texts in the Classroom
Teaching Media Literacy
The Billerica Initiative Brings Media Literacy to Middle School
See Dick and Jane Deconstruct: ABC's of Teaching Media Literacy
Channel One: Schulfernseshen zwischen innovation und kommerz (The Promise and Peril of Channel One)
How First Time Viewers Comprehend Editing

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Mind Over Media: Propaganda Education for a Digital Age
Propaganda is inescapable. It’s everywhere. Students need to analyze, resist, critique―and create.
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The Seven Great Debates in the Media Literacy Movement

Measuring the Digital and Media Literacy Competencies of Children and Teens
This paper reviews the various methodological approaches used to measure the digital and media literacy competencies of learners.
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Capitalists, consumers and communicators: How schools approach civic education
In this chapter, I examine the positioning of young people in relation to three forms of civic agency: as capitalists, as consumers of news and information, and as communicators with stories to tell.
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Digital Learning Anytime and Real Time
An essential guide for middle school educators designing synchronous and asynchronous learning experiences.
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Media Literacy in Rhode Island
New report gives letter grades to school districts across the state
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Media Literacy in Action
This new textbook by Renee Hobbs includes a companion website: www.mlaction.com
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Propaganda in an Age of Algorithmic Personalization: Expanding Literacy Research and Practice
This commentary considers the rise of algorithmic personalization and the power of propaganda as it is shifting our understanding of the landscape of 21st-century literacy research and practice.
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