https://padlet.com/snarula/uiewl0zqm0a6 As you read the text "Mastering Media Literacy" share new learning moments & discuss how you would apply your learning to your teaching practice. en-us 2018-11-19 20:19:17 UTC 2025-10-16 15:28:12 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Lightdecrease.png snarula https://padlet.com/snarula/uiewl0zqm0a6/wish/306165996 The author states "while our students may be media savvy, most are not media literate. They tend to believe everything they see, read, and hear; they do not possess healthy skepticism." (Baker 5). This is true and we often assume they are media literate. We do them a disservice by not providing explicit learning and instruction to better navigate all forms of "text". Media Literacy needs to be more than just a quick unit tacked on at the end of the semester. Teaching English needs to extend to being literate across 21st century mediums.]]> 2018-11-20 01:04:22 UTC https://padlet.com/snarula/uiewl0zqm0a6/wish/306165996 snarula https://padlet.com/snarula/uiewl0zqm0a6/wish/306167487 "Media literacy's chief objective is critical inquiry: questioning" (Baker 7). Questioning includes questioning and analyzing the content and message of the media (text, images, sounds etc.) but also questioning its production: how it was made, who made it, and how it can be reproduced? Teaching media through inquiry fits well with our board's direction for developing and integrating inquiry based learning and teaching practices.]]> 2018-11-20 01:13:22 UTC https://padlet.com/snarula/uiewl0zqm0a6/wish/306167487 snarula https://padlet.com/snarula/uiewl0zqm0a6/wish/306170358 "Too often in courses that include a focus on technology, the learning is about the technology tool itself. Educators need to move beyond this thinking. Technology should be an essential part of the work we see in classrooms --not the focus of the work" (Baker 50). I liked this quote because part of our role is to be familiar with good technological tools so that we can offer them to our students as tools that they can use to demonstrate their knowledge and understanding or application of a concept. We need to embed and integrate the use of these tech tools so that our students can use them to explore, deconstruct, and create media. The focus is on the teaching of media literacy not the use of the technological tool. However, according to the book students can still be active participants in the search for good tech tools. For example, they could be assigned a task of finding the best online platform to make and edit a video. As a teacher our role would be to help develop a set of criteria with the class to determine what makes a tech tool a good one. I like how the book gives several exemplar rubrics for evaluating tech tools.]]> 2018-11-20 01:30:06 UTC https://padlet.com/snarula/uiewl0zqm0a6/wish/306170358 https://padlet.com/snarula/uiewl0zqm0a6/wish/313614151 Image:

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