Media literacy can be taught in the home as well -- in fact, parents can be the best teachers of media literacy. Instead of merely restricting children's media usage, parents can engage in discussions about the messages embedded in their children's favorite media and how those messages relate to the family's own values.
Topics
Media and Family
Events
Recommend, read, repeat. What more could you ask for in a digital book club?
“Multimedia,” you say? You got it.
Teaching Resources
Available for purchase, the media literacy smartphone helps students learn to ask questions about what they read, see, watch and listen to.
Examine and evaluate contemporary propaganda with lesson plans exploring definitions of propaganda, virality, sponsored content and more
It's never to early to be smart about media!
Understand how copyright and fair use supports digital learning
"Create to Learn" by using free or low-cost digital tools for making podcasts, blogs, videos, gifs, infographics and more
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.
Undergraduate and graduate students benefit from exploring the multidisciplinary history of media literacy
Research and Scholarship
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Hobbs, R. & Smith, L. ..(2018,May).Digital Authorship: Issues and Implications for Educators Primer 46(2), 7 - 17,.
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Hobbs, R. ..(2018,).Mind Over Media: Analyzing Contemporary Propaganda Lesson Plans .
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Hobbs, R (Ed)..(2018,).The Routledge Companion to Media Education, Copyright and Fair Use Routledge,New York
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Hobbs, R..(2017,September).Teach the Conspiracies. Knowledge Quest 46(1),16 - 24.
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Hobbs, R., Ranieri, M., Markus, S., Fortuna, C., Zamora, M. and Coiro, J...(2017,June).Digital Literacy in Higher Education: A Report Providence RI: Media Education Lab..
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Tuzel, S. & Hobbs, R..(2017,April).The Use of Social Media and Popular Culture to Advance Cross-Cultural Understanding Communicar 25(51),63 - 72.
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Hobbs, R...(2017,November).Teaching and Learning in a Post-Truth World. Educational Leadership,75(3), 26 - 31.
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Hobbs, R..(2017,).Measuring the Digital and Media Literacy Competencies of Children and Teens In Fran C. Blumberg and Patricia J. Brooks (Eds.), Cognitive Development in Digital Contexts (pp. 253 – 274). London: Academic Press.,.
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Hobbs, R...(2016,August).Literacy: Understanding media and how they work. In R. G. Picard (Ed.), What Society Needs from Media in the Age of Digital Communication (pp.131 - 160).,Porto: Media XXI..
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Hobbs, Renee..(2016,June).Exploring the Roots of Digital and Media Literacy through Personal Narrative Temple University Press,Philadelphia
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Hobbs, R. & Coiro, J ...(2016,May).Everyone Learns From Everyone: Collaborative and Interdisciplinary Professional Development in Digital Literacy Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy 59,623 - 629.
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Valenza, J. & Hobbs, R. ..(2016,April).School librarians as stakeholders in the children and media community: A dialogue Journal of Children and Media 10:2, 147-155, DOI: 10.1080/17482798.2015.1127841,.
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Friesem, J., Greene, K. & Niedbala, M. ..(2016,March).The Curriculum Materials Library as a Hub of Resources, Literacy Practices, and Collaboration: Expanding the Role of the Library Journal of Research on Libraries and Young Adults,7(1), 1 - 17.
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Hobbs, R. ..(2016,).Capitalists, consumers and communicators: How schools approach civic education. In E. Gordon and P. Mihailidis (Eds), Civic Media: Technology, Design, Practice (pp. 355- 370). Cambridge: MIT Press. ,.
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Hobbs, R. & Grafe, S...(2015,July).YouTube pranking across cultures First Monday, 20,1 - 15.
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Hobbs, R. & Moore, D.C. ..(2013,).Discovering Media Literacy: Digital Media and Popular Culture in Elementary School Corwin/Sage,Thousand Oaks, CA
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Friesem, J., Greene, K., Provorova, L., Tierney, T. & Hobbs, R...(2012,September).First Star URI RAM Academy Kingston, RI: Media Education Lab.,.
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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,.
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Hobbs, R., Cabral, N., Ebrahimi, A., Yoon, J. & Al-Humaidan, R. ..(2011,June).Field-Based Teacher Education in Elementary Media Literacy as a Means to Promote Global Understanding Action in Teacher Education,144 - 156.
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Hobbs, R., Cipollone, M., Bailin, E., Moore, D.C. & Schlesinger, M...(2011,June).Young Audiences and New Authors in a Multimedia Landscape Media Education Lab.