The Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education puts an end to copyright confusion! Check out our case study videos, Schoolhouse-Rock style music videos, as well as our readings, activities and lesson plans for high school and college students to learn about copyright and fair use as they apply to teaching and learning with digital media, mass media and popular culture.
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Copyright and Fair Use
Events
Spring into Digital Literacy with the Media Education Lab!
Spring into Digital Literacy with the Media Education Lab!
Teaching Resources
Support reflection on why digital and media literacy matters for learning and teaching
Now it's easier than ever to engage students and support learning through creating videos, animations, infographics and more
Explore the crowdsourced gallery of over 2,500 examples from around the world
Help students learn to ask questions about what they read, see, watch and listen to.
Books for young learners: It's never to early to be smart about media!
Understand how copyright and fair use supports digital learning
Guided inquiry & viewing of Adam Ruins the Internet helps learners judge the pros and cons of digital life and reflect on the role of media regulation.
Research and Scholarship
Tuzel, S. & Hobbs, R
2017
Communicar
https://mediaeducationlab.com/sites/default/files/English.pdf
The Use of Social Media and Popular Culture to Advance Cross-Cultural Understanding
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his paper offers a case study of a collaboration between teachers in the US and Turkey, where 7 th grade students interacted with each other via online social media as a means to promote cultural understanding.
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Renee Hobbs
2017
International Handbook of Media Literacy Education
https://mediaeducationlab.com/sites/default/files/Hobbs%202017%20Approaches%20to%20Teacher%20PD%20in%20Media%20Literacy.pdf
Approaches to teacher professional development in digital media literacy education
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Renee Hobbs & Julie Coiro
2016
May
Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy
https://mediaeducationlab.com/sites/default/files/Hobbs_et_al-2016-Journal_of_Adolescent_%26_Adult_Literacy%2520%281%29_0.pdf
Everyone Learns From Everyone: Collaborative and Interdisciplinary Professional Development in Digital Literacy
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Renee Hobbs
2016
March
International Journal of Information and Communication Technology Education
https://mediaeducationlab.com/sites/default/files/HOBBS%2520Lessons-in-Copyright-Activism--K-12-Education-and-the-DMCA-1201-Exemption-Rulemaking-Process_0.pdf
Lessons in copyright activism: K-12 education and the DMCA 1201 exemption rulemaking process.
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Renee Hobbs
2011
March
Knowledge Quest
https://mediaeducationlab.com/sites/default/files/Hobbs%20Empowering%20Learners.pdf
Empowering learners with digital and media literacy.
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Renee Hobbs and Lourdes Smith
2018
Primer: Massachusetts Reading Association
https://mediaeducationlab.com/sites/default/files/Digital%20Authorship%20Primer%20Hobbs%20and%20Smith%202018.pdf
Digital Authorship: Issues and Implications for Educators
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In this essay, the term digital authorship in examined in relation to literacy learning. We reflect on two critical issues that are sometimes overlooked features of digital literacy in relation to the pedagogical practices of digital authorship.
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Renee Hobbs
2017
Educational Leadership
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Teaching and Learning in a Post-Truth World
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Renee Hobbs, Nuala Cabral, Aggie Ebrahimi, Jiwon Yoon & Rawia Al-Humaidan
2011
June
Action in Teacher Education
https://mediaeducationlab.com/sites/default/files/1_9_2018_Field-Base.pdf
Field-Based Teacher Education in Elementary Media Literacy as a Means to Promote Global Understanding
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Hobbs, R. & Donnelly, K.E.
2011
November
In M.C. Rife, S. Slattery & D.N. Devoss (Eds.), Copy(write): Intellectual Property in the Writing Classroom. West Layfayette, IN: Parlor Press (pp. 275 - 294).
https://mediaeducationlab.com/sites/default/files/Hobbs%2520and%2520Donnelly%2C%2520pedagogy%2520of%2520fair%2520use%2520Chapter15_1.pdf
Towards a Pedagogy of Fair Use for Multimedia Composition
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Hobbs. R.
2010
September
Formare
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Empowerment and protection: Complementary strategies for digital and media literacy education in the United States.
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Hobbs, R.
2009
September
Afterimage
https://mediaeducationlab.com/sites/default/files/Hobbs%2C%2520Afterimage%2C%2520The_power_of_fair_use_for_medi_0.pdf
The Power of Fair Use For Media Literacy Education
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Hobbs, R.
2009
Council Chronicle
https://mediaeducationlab.com/sites/default/files/Council%2520Chronicle%2520March%25202009%2520Copyright%2520and%252021st%2520Century%2520Literacy_0.pdf
Best Practices Help End Copyright Confusion
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Hobbs, R., Jaszi, P. and Aufderheide, P
2009
International Journal of Learning and Media
https://mediaeducationlab.com/sites/default/files/Hobbs%2C%2520Jaszi%2C%2520Aufderheide%2520How%2520Media%2520Literacy%2520Educators%2520Reclaimed%2520Fair%2520Use%2520IJLM%25202009_0.pdf
How media literacy educators reclaimed copyright and fair use
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Hobbs, R.
2008
March
Education Week
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Copyright Confusion is Shortchanging our Students
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Donnelly, K.
2007
Youth Media Reporter, November 14.
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Using Media, Fair Use and Copyright
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