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"Digital and Media Literacy: A Plan of Action, a new policy paper by Renee Hobbs, Professor at the School of Communications and the College of Education at Temple University and founder of its Media Education Lab, proposes a detailed plan that positions digital and media literacy as an essential life skill and outlines steps that policymakers, educators, and community advocates can take to help Americans thrive in the digital age."

post about teaching students about media literacy.

Some good ideas here.

"Project Look Sharp is a media literacy initiative of Ithaca College to provide materials, training and support for the effective integration of media literacy with critical thinking into classroom curricula at all education levels."

Curriculum Kits and Lessons

"Storify provides endless possibilities for combining media to tell more comprehensive narratives that include multiple perspectives. And while the tool has largely received attention for its journalistic uses, it's not a big leap to see how Storify might be used in classrooms for research and presentations. It's also a valuable tool for teaching media literacy and digital skills, including collaboration."

Great options for classroom use

"Schools continue to deliver new graduates into the workplace lacking the tech-based "soft skills" that businesses demand. Experts blame K-12's persistent failure to integrate technology."

Much to think about in this article. Much emphasis on information literacy and digital literacy

"Social media is an important technological trend that has big implications for how researchers (and people in general) communicate and collaborate. Researchers have a huge amount to gain from engaging with social media in various aspects of their work."

From the museum of moving image- presidential campaign commercials 1952-2008

This is a free online resource from the Museum of the Moving Image, with more than 300 commercials, from every presidential election since 1952 It includes lessons for teachers and links to other online resources.

Great site for teaching about the election process but about media and digital literacy as well.

Interesting article on search results being affected by social media

interesting article about SEO (search engine optimization). Good to know how search results are affected by social media.

"an interactive site that has students analyze a historical photo and make conclusions about the photo.Their job is to figure out what is going on in the photo"

Very interesting site to learn about history and digital literacy

Good ideas for using the NY Times for research

Excellent post on research process.

Excellent post on improving the research process.

Ideas for using the uprising in Egypt in a lesson. Lots of resourc materials included.

Part of the CHOICES Program for History and Current Events in the Classroom

Very good post on searching from the UK

good overview of the search process that goes way beyond searching on google.

Sample inquiry projects from Hunterdon Central

Great examples of research projects from Hunterdon Central

excellent presentation on info overload and how to manage overwhelming amounts of data.

Although this is geared towards librarians the presentation has much valuable information for everyone