INSTRUCTION 

Media literacy instruction has been integrated in the courses I teach and develop for 15 years. They exist as complete media literacy curriculum ready for adoption and as units of instruction with performance assessments. The examples below show curriculum and course development as well as actual student work. Please click to view them:

• Example One and Example Two– It offers 20 thematic units designed to teach students' media literacy skills.

• Example Three, Example Four –Two books teaching students how to question TV programs and Internet information.

• Example Five, Example Six– Both Children’s Literature and Elementary Language Arts Methods are courses for pre-service teachers in which media literacy skills are addressed as units with assignments.

• Example Seven – A secondary education method course where media literacy concepts are discussed and students learn to integrate media literacy in their content instruction

• Example Eight- Student work comparing movie and history

Example EightA and Example EightB: Samples of lesson plans by students integrating media literacy as 21st Century Skills in content instruction

• Example Nine, Example Ten, Example Eleven – Three courses developed for the Master’s Program at American University in Dubai. Media literacy principles and concepts are addressed in all three of them.

• Example Twelve – Published in Teaching K-8, it offers ideas for language arts teachers to teach media literacy skills.

• Example Thirteen – The article demonstrates with examples that media literacy is interdisciplinary by nature and it can be integrated into every subject we teach

• Example Fourteen – This is an example of media literacy presentation for workshops and conferences.