Media Literacy for Young Children - Teaching Beyond the Screen Time Debates

"Media Literacy for Young Children: Teaching Beyond the Screen Time Debates is about all these things, and more importantly, it is about how early childhood educators and professionals can prepare children for their digital future. This book is a first-of-its-kind guide for pre-service and currently practicing teachers and child care professionals looking for pedagogically sound and developmentally appropriate ways to help today's children navigate their media-rich world with confidence, curiosity, and critical thinking. Detailed descriptions of media literacy competencies, along with dozens of activities, strategies, and tips designed for children ages 2-7, demonstrate how to integrate foundational skills, knowledge, and dispositions into existing routines as well as experiment with new lessons. By examining media through a literacy lens, this book will show you ways to: Use inquiry and media-making to teach children about media; Plan activities to engage children in meaningful media discussions; Engage with families about the importance of media literacy education for young children; Address media concerns with joy and creativity rather than anxiety or fear ...and much more!"--

List of contents

Acknowledgments

Start Here

Part I: Getting Ready

Chapter 1: Media, Society, and Us 

Chapter 2: Visual
Literacy 

Chapter 3: How We
Make Meaning 

Chapter 4: Framing:
How We Think About Our Work

Part II: Defining the Task

Chapter 5: What Is
This “Media Literacy Education” of Which You Speak? 

Chapter 6: Engaging
Through Inquiry

Chapter 7: Building
Media Knowledge: Key Concepts

Part III: From Pedagogy to Practice

Chapter
8: Integrating Media Literacy: Routines and Modifications

Chapter
9: Integrating Media Literacy: Planned Activities

Chapter 10: Engaging
Families

Chapter 11: Taking
the Next Step

Appendix A: 100 Words That Build Media Literacy
Vocabulary

Appendix B: Using Media Analysis Questions to Draw Conclusions
About Media Effects Research

Appendix C: Resources

Index

About the Author 

About the author

Faith Rogow, PhD, is a media literacy
leader, innovator, and founder of Insighters Educational Consulting. She was
the founding president of the National Association for Media Literacy Education
(NAMLE), a founding editorial board member of the Journal for Media Literacy Education, a founding advisor to Project
Look Sharp, and a coauthor of NAMLE’s “Core Principles of Media Literacy Education
in the United States” (2007). For more than twenty years she has been one of
the few people in the

United States advocating for and creating media literacy education that
is developmentally appropriate for early childhood. Her groundbreaking article
“The ABCs of Media Literacy” (Telemedium, Spring 2002) has been widely
circulated, as has her chapter—“Media Literacy in Early Childhood Education: Inquiry-Based
Technology Integration”—in the Routledge/NAEYC anthology Technology and Digital Media in the Early Years: Tools for Teaching and
Learning (Donohue 2015). She also coauthored
The Teacher’s Guide to Media Literacy: Critical Thinking in a Multimedia World (Corwin, 2012).

www.insighterseducation.com

Summary

Midwest
Book Review calls this book a " seminal and groundbreaking instructional
guide [that] is an essential and substantive contribution that should be a part
of every professional, school district, college, and academic library Early
Child Education and Media Literacy collections and supplemental curriculum
studies lists." It's also a Spring
2023 Smart Book winner from the Academics' Choice Awards.

Media literacy is
about wonder and imagination, questioning and learning, thinking and
reflecting!

Media Literacy for
Young Children: Teaching Beyond the Screen Time Debates is about all these
things, and more importantly, it is about how early childhood educators and
professionals can prepare children for their digital future.

This book is a first-of-its-kind guide for pre-service and currently
practicing teachers and child care professionals looking for pedagogically
sound and developmentally appropriate ways to help today’s children navigate
their media-rich world with confidence, curiosity, and critical thinking.
Detailed descriptions of media literacy competencies, along with dozens of
activities, strategies, and tips designed for children ages 2–7, demonstrate
how to integrate foundational skills, knowledge, and dispositions into existing
routines as well as experiment with new lessons. 

By examining media through a literacy lens, this book will show you ways
to

·      
Use inquiry and media-making to teach children about
media

·      
Plan activities to engage children in meaningful media
discussions

·      
Engage with families about the importance of media
literacy education for young children

·      
Address media concerns with joy and creativity rather
than anxiety or fear

 

. . . and much
more!

Foreword

This book will be promoted via various NAEYC marketing efforts, including social media pages promotions (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest with a reach of over 200K followers); promotional emails; advertisements in Young Children, Teaching Young Children, and Exchange magazines; and NAEYC’s seasonal resource catalogs. Select authors of the publication will also present a webinar on a topic covered in the book soon after its publication. Finally, the publication will be advertised and sold at various early childhood conferences and trade shows (NAEYC’s Annual Conferences, NAEYC’s Professional Learning Institutes, Zero to Three, etc.).

Product details

• Authors: Faith Rogow
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 08.03.2022, delayed
• EAN: 9781938113970
• ISBN: 978-1-938113-97-0
• No. of pages: 176
• Illustrations: charts, figures, photos, illustrations
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology; EDUCATION / Teaching Methods & Materials / General, EDUCATION / Curricula, EDUCATION / Early Childhood (incl. Preschool & Kindergarten), Teaching skills & techniques, Curriculum planning & development, Pre-school & kindergarten