Powerfull Voice of Kids - Digital & Media Literacy Education
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Motivations for Using Digital Media
REFLECTING ON YOUR MOTIVATIONS FOR USING DIGITAL MEDIA
By David Cooper Moore and Renee Hobbs
When it comes to using digital media in school, teachers have many different approaches. Some teachers like to use the technology to share resources in the classroom for learning, using games and simulations to help learners master new skills. Other teachers inspire their students to “just do it,” offering optional homework activities like this one where...
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Q&A with Renee and David
INTEGRATING DIGITAL AND MEDIA LITERACY INTO THE CLASSROOM
Renee Hobbs and David Cooper Moore answer your questions about all things digital and media literacy and share their experiences working with elementary and secondary teachers who are discovering media literacy’s value in advancing critical thinking, communication, creativity and collaboration.
Q: How are teachers exploring digital and media literacy?
A lot of the teachers we work with think that “...
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Partnering with Narragansett Elementary School
We are simply thrilled to have our friends at Narragansett Elementary School join us as a partner school this year. Under leadership from Principal Gail Dandurand, teachers Brien Jennings, Susan Sabella and others from this K-4 school are engaged in a reading and discussion book club using our new book, Discovering Media Literacy: Teaching Digital Media and Popular Culture in Elementary School. Teachers recently notated the "big ideas" that resulted from their...
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How Digital & Media Literacy Supports Human Development
David Cooper Moore and myself are thrilled to announce the release of our new book, Discovering Media Literacy: Teaching Digital Media and Popular Culture in Elementary School (Corwin/Sage, 2013) and the companion website, Powerful Voices for Kids.
I hope you’ll listen to a speech which I offered to the Youth 2.0 conference at the University of Antwerp, I got a chance to preview some of the ideas in the book and show some of the videos that are...