Corroboree, LLC

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Media Literacy Workshops for Educators

We are hurled into a new communications age that is differentiated from the old by the speed, accuracy and amount of information being exchanged at any given moment in time. Just as the convergence of the technologies of block printing and the wine press spawned a new literacy movement, so too, the new communications media emerging from developments in computer, telephone, video and audio technologies demand the teaching and critical deliberation of new understandings, skills and strategies. The question needs to be asked, are we preparing our children for this new communications age? Media literacy must be addressed through education if we are to ensure that the "information society" is also a society of wisdom, knowledge and care.

Key Benefits

• Prepare your students for the communication/information age
• Hands-on Learning for an entire class of students
• Integrates into the existing curriculum

What you can Expect

This "hands-on" workshop will investigate ways teachers can integrate media literacy into elementary and secondary school curriculum. You don't have to be an expert in the field of media arts and sciences to learn to teach about the media and their messages. In fact, the guided, open-ended, process approach to teaching and learning allows teachers to learn right along with the students in their class. This is not a course in media technology. It is a course in how to teach about the electronic media and their messages.

• You will acquire pedagogical knowledge, attitudes, and skills which will allow you to teach about the language of the media within a school's current curriculum offerings.
• You will find out how teaching about media language is epistemologically aligned with whole language philosophy and teaching strategies.
• You will be provided with lesson strategies, including classroom management, for teaching an entire class of students about the media and their messages.

Contact Corroboree, LLC by email if like to know more about this professional development program.

Corroboree, LLC
159 Glenbrook Avenue
Camarillo, CA 93010

Phone: 805-388-0369 or 805-479-1256