Literacy For 21Th Century

A Framework for Learning and Teaching in A Media Age

Part I: Theory

Literacy For the 21 Century
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An Overview & Orientation Guide To Media Literacy Education
Critical Thinking / Creative Communication

Core Concepts

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Key Questions • Skills •

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Inquiry Process Empowerment

Definitions

Literacy for the 21st Century
An Overview & Orientation Guide To Media LiteracyEducation

Part I: Theory

CML MediaLit Kit™
A Framework for Learning and Teaching in a Media Age

Developed and written by

Elizabeth Thoman Founder
and

Tessa Jolls President / CEO

Center for Media Literacy
www.medialit.org

© 2003, 2005 Center for Media Literacy For terms of usage, go to www.medialit.org/medialitkit

En Espanol!
The original version of this document isavailable in Spanish under the title:

MediaLit Kit™ Orientation Guide
http://medialit.org/medialitkit.html
Additional translations will be posted as they become available.

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Table of Contents

I. Literacy for the 21st Century Literacy for the 21st Century / New Ways ofLearning What a Difference a Century Makes! Why Media Literacy is Important Questioning the Media II. The CML MediaLit Kit™ A Framework for Learning and Teaching in a Media Age Media Literacy: From Theory to Practice to Implementation How this Book is Organized The Six Elements: Slides & Charts III. Pedagogy in Plain Language: The Framework Explained The ‘Inquiry’ Process: Deconstruction / ConstructionMedia Literacy: A Definition Five Core Concepts / Five Key Questions Media Literacy Process Skills (Access / Analyze / Evaluate / Create) • How to Conduct a ‘Close Analysis’ of a Media Text The Empowerment Spiral (Awareness / Analysis / Reflection / Action) • Organizing Media Literacy Learning IV. Alternate Questions for Different Ages and Abilities Adapting the Questions for Different Ages andAbilities Questions to Guide Young Children Expanded Questions for More Sophisticated Inquiry V. Getting Started: Strategies and Tools Benefits of Media Literacy Introducing Media Literacy in your School or District A Word about Copyright How CML can Help • Training and Web Resources • CML Educational Philosophy: Empowerment through Education • Words of Wisdom about Teaching Media Literacy FeedbackForm

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“The convergence of media and technology in a global culture is changing the way we learn about the world and challenging the very foundations of education. No longer is it enough tobe able to read the printed word; children, youth, and adults, too, need the ability to both critically interpret the powerful images of a multimedia culture and express themselves in multiple media forms.

Media literacy education provides a framework and a pedagogy for the new literacy needed for living, working and citizenship in the 21st century. Moreover it paves the way to mastering theskills required for lifelong learning in a constantly changing world.”

Elizabeth Thoman and Tessa Jolls

Media Literacy: A National Priority for a Changing World

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Section I

Literacy st for the 21 Century:
The Challenge of Teaching In a Global Media Culture

“Theilliterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.”
Alvin Toffler

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Literacy for the 21 Century
“We must prepare young people for living in a world of powerful images, words and sounds.”
UNESCO, 1982

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