The Media-Savvy Student

Teaching Media Literacy Skills, Grades 2-6

By Wan, Guofang & Cheng, Hong

Publishers Summary:
Designed to help elementary school teachers develop their students' media literacy skills—the ability to access, analyze, evaluate, and communicate information in a variety of formats—this book offers a series of 20 thematic units that show how to integrate media literacy into their existing curricula. Each unit's lesson or activity includes a statement of the rationale behind it, specific objectives, content goals, materials, procedures, grade-appropriate adaptations, and assessment tools, which are usually student handouts. The Media-Savvy Student is developed around student-centered teaching, inquiry-based education, problem solving in cooperative learning, and alternatives to standardized testing.

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ISBN
978-1-56976-170-0
Publisher
Zephyr Press


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School Library Journal

Reviewed on April 1, 2005

The authors open this compendium of media-centered teaching units with a rationale that contains every current educational buzzword from "student-centered teaching" to "standardized testing." However, despite their efforts to appeal to all educators through this introductory technical jargon, they never mention school media specialists. Regardless of this omission, many of these lessons c...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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