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Article: Media literacy: a guided tour of the best resources for teaching.
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- The Clearing House
- Article date:
- July 1, 2003
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Media Literacy. Everybody is talking about it but in the classroom, where do you start? What's useful and what's not? Bookstores and Internet chats abound with new titles and topics about "the media," but suitable resources for teaching, often published by small organizations or independent publishers, can be difficult to discover. The following is a four-step overview of where to begin, what you should know, and recommendations for how to get started.
Start with a Sound Basic Framework
Over the years, educators around the world have evolved conceptual principles to guide the development of the field. High among these is the "principle of inquiry"--that ...