What is Media Literacy?

Center for Media Literacy defines “Media Literacy is a 21st-century approach to education. It provides a framework to access, analyze, evaluate, create and participate with messages in a variety of forms – from print to video to the Internet. Media literacy builds an understanding of the role of media in society as well as essential skills of inquiry and self-expression necessary for citizens of a democracy.” (http://www.medialit.org/media-literacy-definition-and-more/)

Resources

Media Literacy @ your library http://www.ala.org/tools/programming/media-literacy-your-library

ALA and the Center for News Literacy @ Stony Brook University worked with five public libraries to adapt existing media literacy training to serve the needs of public librarians and the communities at

• Skokie Public Library (Illinois)
• Huntsville-Madison County Public Library (Huntsville, Alabama)
• Estes Valley Library (Estes Park, Colorado)
• Auburn Public Library (Maine)
• San Diego Public Library (California)

The learning and prototyping report http://www.ala.org/tools/sites/ala.org.tools/files/content/Media%20Literacy%20%40%20your%20library%20-%20Final%20Report%20Dec%202018.pdf

Empowering Learners with digital and media literacy (AASL)

http://www.ala.org/aasl/sites/ala.org.aasl/files/content/aaslpubsandjournals/knowledgequest/docs/KNOW_39_5_EmpoweringLearners.pdf

Using Media Literacy to Stop the Fake News Cycle (YALSA)

http://www.ala.org/yalsa/using-media-literacy-stop-fake-news-cycle

From Apps to Robots: How to Evaluate Digital Media for Literacy Learning (ALSC)

Part 1, http://www.ala.org/alsc/apps-robots-how-evaluate-digital-media-literacy-learning-part-1

Part 2, http://www.ala.org/alsc/apps-robots-how-evaluate-digital-media-literacy-learning-part-2

Media Resources for students

Activities, lessons, case studies and blog posts to develop students’ media literacy skills https://newseumed.org/medialiteracy

Resources for students learn to analyze, evaluate, and communicate in a world with countless media sources and constant access to powerful computers https://www.edutopia.org/topic/media-literacy

15 resources for teaching media literacy (ASCD in Service) http://inservice.ascd.org/15-resources-for-teaching-media-literacy/

From American Libraries, “Fighting Fake News: How libraries can lead the way on media literacy”

Involvement

(The following units have done media literacy-related programs or publications, links are available above)

• ALA
• AASL
• YALSA
• ALSC