Come to this session for discussion, disruptive thinking, and media materials you can adapt for your classroom.
NCTE’s 2021 Task Force on Critical Media Literacy report recommends teachers improve their understanding of Critical Media Literacy and that teachers integrate Media Literacy into the curriculum. Because of our history in Iowa, we are well positioned to answer this call to action. In the 1960s, “Iowa educators blazed trails in the emerging field of media education with a unique self-directed, module-based curriculum called Media Now," wrote Jill Jensen, media director at the Southwest Iowa Learning Resources Center, 1972–1974. Media Now introduced "high school students to the media world that was exploding around them. It was also designed to familiarize teachers with media issues, equipment and genres so that they would develop more confidence and creativity in the classroom."
Come to this session to hear about the three-year-old, NCAA-approved Multimedia Composition course at Ames High School. We'll look at the Personal Digital Inquiry Model (Coiro) and Media Literacy model (Hobbs) that serve as the instructional foundation in Multimedia Composition. I'll share how this course focuses on students creating traditional and multimedia Persuasive, Explanatory, and Narrative texts with support from the New York Times student contests and mentor texts. I'll also share the secret sauce that got this MEDIA course NCAA approved, and we'll end our time together with plans to make Media Now 2.0 for today’s students.
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