Next week’s reading

• http://www.gse.uci.edu/markw/research.html

• Roblyer 4

• Cooper and Weaver 4 - 7

Critical Media Literacy

Information Literacy

Karen Kusiak

ED338

March 1, 2004

Critical media literacy

“…to read texts critically”

…to examine representations, to ask whose voice is heard and whose is not…

Vannevar Bush Library of Congress

CMT

to question where power lies, to attempt to understand who loses or gains in situations or events, and to try to understand the values and ideologies that underlie texts and discourses”

Roberta Hammett -Intermediality, Hypermedia, and Critical Media Literacy

Representations in Huckleberry Finn

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/railton/huckfinn/huckpix/huckpix.html

“I love being able to do research in the classroom spontaneously. An example was when a student did a report on Yasar Arafat. She mentioned that he was the leader of the PLO. I could tell that no one had any idea of what the PLO is. We went online and students were amazed to discover that the PLO is a terrorist organization and that Arafat has called for bombings and assassinations at various times….That is a prime example of success. They were so excited to discover that on their own, not just have me (the know-it-all) tell them.

From Teacher Survey, Fall 2003

Silvernail, D. The Impact of Maine’s One-on-one Laptop Program on

Middle School Teachers and Students

Yasser Arafat

Yasser Arafat Nobel e-Museum

Palestinian Leader

Alan November

Grammar of the Internet

Information Literacy