New Medial Literacies Projects

My assignment is to research what I can find out about new media literacies projects. I had a hard time researching this topic, but I did find an article written by Alice Robinson. She is an assistant Professor of English at Arizona State. She wrote an article for the Journal of Media Literacy discussing the framework of new media literacies. In Ms. Robinson's article she discusses about how hard it is to teach students to be critical thinkers, reader, and writers. Then try to get them to also be active producers of media content. The goal is to bring critical thinking skills to bear on all media from music videos, web environments, to product placement in films, and to virtual displays in sports.

Media literacies projects seek to help educators develop professional techniques, ideas, and strategies for working with new media. Ms. Robinson shares her syllabus for her class and the involvement of media literacies. She wanted to give her students the opportunity to act as educators and design material for teaching new media literacy concepts. She wanted their work to represent the new ways of thinking about both interpreting and making media.

The article was very informative. I realize how important new media literacy is and that we all need to develop new media skills to function in a world of technology. It is our responsibility as teachers to guide our students with these tools that they will need to have for their future. The article that I read can be found at the following link http://alicerobison.org/2007/08/28/teaching-the-new-media-literacies/.