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)
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