- Learn to think critically.
- Become a smart consumer of products and information.
- Recognize point of view.
- Create media responsibly.
- Identify the role of media in our culture
- Understand the author's goal.
Key question resource grid
The National Association of Media Literacy Educators (NAMLE) has a useful key question grid resource to help teachers get started. The grid provides questions in three categories, each with subcategories.
- Audience and authorship
- Messages and meaning
- Representations and reality
Source: NAMLE Key Questions Chart |
Tips to Consider
Media literate people learn to ask themselves questions in each category. Showing students the questions is where you start. Next have a discussion with your students using the questions to discuss media keeping these two tips in mind:- Questions may have many different answers.
- When sharing answers students should provide evidence sharing how they know what they know.
Classroom Videos
Here are two powerful videos that would serve as great resources to launch this work with secondary students:
Your Turn
What do you think? How are you empowering your students to become media literate? Is this grid something you think would work in your classroom? If you've used this tool, how did it go? If you use something else, what do you use?
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