Teaching Media Literacy Across Curriculum

Catalog description

This course provides a foundation for teaching media literacy in elementary and secondary classrooms. In this course, participants will explore ways that teachers at all grade levels can integrate media literacy skills across content areas. The focus of the course will be on providing K-12 students with the concepts and skills that will allow them to be critical consumers of media. Participants will gain strategies to assist their students in deconstructing media messages, as well as creating their own media based on the core concepts.