The Media-Savvy Student Teaching Media Literacy Skills, Grades 2–6

by Wan, Guofang; Cheng, Hong

• ISBN13: 9781569761700
• ISBN10: 1569761701
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-09-01
• Publisher: Zephyr Press

Summary

For ages 8-12. Designed to help elementary school teachers develop their students' media literacy skills -- the ability to access, analyse, evaluate, and communicate information in a variety of formats -- this book offers a series of 20 thematic units that show how to integrate media literacy into their existing curricula. Each unit's lesson or activity includes a statement of the rationale behind it, specific objectives, content goals, materials, procedures, grade-appropriate adaptations, and assessment tools, which are usually student handouts. The Media-Savvy Student is developed around student-centred teaching, inquiry-based education, problem solving in cooperative learning, and alternatives to standardised testing.

Author Biography

Guofang Wan is an associate professor at Bradley University. She teaches and advises undergraduate and graduate students majoring in teacher education, and has published and presented papers on media literacy at national and international conferences. Hong Cheng is an associate professor at Bradley University where he teaches advertising, journalism, and mass communication theory courses. They both live in Peoria, Illinois.

Table of Contents

Introduction to Media Literacy	1	(1)
What Is Media Literacy?	1	(2)
Why Teach Media Literacy to Children?	3	(2)
Media Literacy Education in the United States	5	(1)
What Media Literacy Skills Should We Teach Children?	6	(3)
How Do We Integrate Media Literacy into Existing Curriculum?	9	(2)
About This Book	11	(4)
Mass Media in Our Lives	15	(38)
Let's Look at Mass Media	17	(5)
What Goes on Behind the Scenes?	22	(8)
What's the Net?	30	(4)
What's in a Newspaper?	34	(11)
Images in a Digital Age	45	(5)
Media Culture Through the Eyes of Alien Friends	50	(3)
Becoming Critical Viewers	53	(38)
We Are Smarter than TV	55	(5)
Countering Violence in Media	60	(6)
Can They Really Do That?	66	(6)
We Make the World	72	(7)
Media Stereotype Detectors	79	(12)
Advertising Is Everywhere	91	(24)
What Is Advertising?	93	(6)
Make Your Own Decisions	99	(6)
Jump on the Bandwagon?	105	(5)
Find Out for Yourself	110	(5)
Internet-Savvy Kids	115	(36)
Safe Surfing	117	(6)
Coping with an Avalanche of Information	123	(6)
Netiquette	129	(5)
Recognizing Cyberad Strategies	134	(10)
Touring the World with Greeting Cards	144	(7)
Answer Keys for Worksheets	151	(6)
Valuable Resources for Teachers	157	(2)
Bibliography	159	(6)
Index	165	(4)
About the Authors	169