Addressing Media Literacy Via State Standards

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Addressing Media Literacy Via State Standards
Best Resources For Teaching

• Frank Baker media educator
• fbaker1346_at_aol.com
• Media Literacy Clearinghouse
• http//medialit.med.sc.edu

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Addressing Media Literacy ViaState Standards
Best Resources For Teaching

• What do we want young people to know about the
  media?

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Media literacy in standards
Source Media Literacy Clearinghouse
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English/Language Arts

• Washington State identify and evaluate
  techniques used in mass communication
• California Identify persuasive and propaganda
  techniques used in television and identify false
  and misleading information.
• Maryland recognize instances of propaganda and
  persuasive techniques

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English/Language Arts

• Texas Viewing Representing
• Viewing/representing/
  interpretation.
• Viewing/representing/ analysis
• Viewing/representing/production

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Social Studies

• Washington evaluate the positive and
  negative consequences of public opinion and the
  media on public policy developmentMaryland
  analyze the roles of political parties,
  campaigns, and elections in United States
  politics, including advertising
• Texas identify bias in written, oral,
  andvisual material

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Health

• Washington gather analyze health
• Information messages
• Missouri use critical thinking skills to
• analyze marketing and advertising
• techniques evaluate the idealized body
• image and elite performance levels
• portrayed by the media

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Health

• California Analyze the influence of
• advertising and marketing on the
• selection of healthful and nutrition products
• Texas explain how programmers develop
• media to influence buying decisions.

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New resources

• Media Smart Youth
  Eat, Think Be Active
  www.nichd.nih.gov www.oscars.org/teachersgu
  ide/documentaries/
  www.storyofmovies.org

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New resources

• Made You Look How Advertising
  Works and Why You Should Know
  www.made-you-look.ca In
  Your Face The Culture of Beauty and
  You www.annickpress.com/catalog/iny
  ourface.html

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In school publications
Weekly Readerpublication
Is It A Show or A Commercial?
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Resources

• Teen Health
  Mediahttp//depts.washington.edu/thmedia/
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  Categories
  Tobacco Alcohol
  and other Drugs
  Teen Sexuality
  Violence
  Body Image/Nutrition

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Resources

• Media Literacy Through Critical Thinking
  Teacher Student materialshttp//depts.
  washington.edu/taware/list.cgi?topic57

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Resources

• Center for Media Literacy
• www.medialit.orgResource
  vendor for books, videos, DVD, curriculum and more

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Resources

media literacy, NMMLP programs, and innovative
educational resources.
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Resources

• www.mediaed.orgProducers
  of educational videosMedia Race
  RepresentationMedia Gender DiversityMedia
  HealthCommercialism, Politics The Media

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Resources

• Media Awareness Network (Canada)
• http//www.media-awareness.ca/home to one of
  the worlds most comprehensive collections of
  media education and Internet literacy resources

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Resources

• Assignment Media Literacy(Maryland
  curriculum developed by DISCOVERY )

video
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Resources

• 
  Media Literacy
  Library Media Company
  video

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Resources on advertising

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• Wall St. Journal Media Marketing

www.adweek.com
www.nyt.com
www.adage.com
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Tobacco resources

• http//www.blowingsmoke.arizona.edu/

http//www.cdc.gov/tobacco/mediashrp.htm
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Tobacco resources

• 
  VHS/DVD http//www.mediaed.or
  g/videos/MediaAndHealth/DeadlyPersuasion

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Alcohol resources

• 
  http//www.faceproject.org/

www.mediaed.org/videos/MediaAndHealth/SpinTheBottl
e
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Body image

• www.mediaed.org/videos/MediaAndHealth/Sli
  mHopes

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Body Image

• The Teen Files
• The Truth About Body Image
• www.aimsmultimedia.com/

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Sex, Youth The Media

• Two texts
  Sexual Teens, Sexual Media
  Investigating Medias Influence on
  Adolescent Sexuality
  Media, Sex The Adolescent

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Drug Resources

• www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/NIE/medialiterac
  y/

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Recommended periodicals
Screen Education(Australia)
ExtraFairness AccuracyInReporting
Columbia JournalismReview
Telemedium TheJournal of Media Literacy