CML : Getting Started: Strategies for Introducing Media Literacy in your School or Dist... - 0 views
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Start with your best, most enthused teachers, and involve administrators!
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Build toward having several teachers, library media specialists or staff development leaders gain the experience and expertise in the field needed to become in-house or in-district "consultants" or "coaches."
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Take the time to hammer out both a philosophical and a pedagogical approach to media literacy in your school or district.
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Network, network, network — nationally / regionally / locally. Don't reinvent the wheel; connect with others who may also be looking for connections!Join AMLA, the Alliance for a Media Literate America, the professional membership organization for teachers and supporters of inquiry-based media literacy education.
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Explore your state or local standards to see how media literacy skills can support what you're already mandated to teach. Media literacy is not a new subject to teach but a new way to teach all subjects! Media literacy is a logical extension of traditional language arts: reading/writing and listening/speaking; today we must add viewing and creating/representing using all media forms.