The Development of Media Literacy among Grade Five Teachers and Students - A Case Study

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Title
The Development of Media Literacy among Grade Five Teachers and Students - A Case Study
Abstract
An explanation of what happened during the implementation of a Media Literacy project initiated by the English Montreal School Board at the elementary school level. The eight-week pilot project was conducted in three Grade 5 classrooms in three of the Board's inner city schools. The teachers used SMARTboard interfaces, a list-serv and Web resources to teach principles of Media Literacy. The authors describe what the teachers and students learned about two key Media Literacy concepts: the media construct reality and audiences negotiate the meanings of media texts. Their findings suggest that it is possible to teach elementary students to read media critically and raises some issues that merit further investigation: the ideology of positivism that permeates the use of technology in education; the training of media education teachers; and the factors that characterize effective media education pedagogy.
Publication
Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology/La revue canadienne de l'apprentissage et de la technologie
Volume
Vol. 29
Issue
no. 1
Date
Winter 2003
Language
en
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Citation
Emery, Winston, and Rachel McCabe. “The Development of Media Literacy among Grade Five Teachers and Students - A Case Study.” Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology/La revue canadienne de l’apprentissage et de la technologie Vol. 29, no. 1 (Winter 2003). http://www.cjlt.ca/index.php/cjlt/article/view/32.
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