Text Box: Reasons for Integrating Media Provides Access-- Liberate teachers and students from textbook format. Provide alternative resources- Teachers and students will be able to research through online resources. Provides Global Point of View-- Students and teachers will participate online discussion groups, weblogs, and listservs. Provides new tools for classrooms– Students and teachers will be able to produce media presentations, learning objects, interactive teaching material. Text Box: This participatory project offers creative strategies for producing media in classrooms with limited resources and technologies. The goal of the institute is twofold: (1) to provide participants with a stimulating experience that will allow them to develop critical pedagogies for media analysis; and to understand media literacy and digital video production techniques while learning how to integrate media education across the curriculum. The project provides two-day workshops where participants are expected to watch, read, discuss, and respond to variety of media—both independently and in groups. The program will feature a variety of instructional activities, including group discussion, media analysis, written reflections, digital video production and editing projects. Text Box: Media literacy is the ability to access, understand, analyze, evaluate, and create media messages on television, the Internet and other outlets. It can help us interpret the many messages we receive from these sources—by applying the same critical-thinking skills used in reading and writing to other forms of media. The main goal of this project is to draw on the links between media literacy and teacher education. We will explore how a critical approach to the study of new media combines knowledge, reflection, and action; promotes educational equity; and prepares new generation to be socially responsible members of a multicultural, democratic society. Why Study Media? Media Saturation Media Influence Manufacture and Management of Information Media Democracy/ Critical Autonomy Increasing Importance & Emphasis Privatization of Information Educating for the future Text Box: Media Literacy Project Text Box: What is Media Literacy?

Melda N. Yildiz, Ed.D.

William Paterson University

College of Education

1600 Valley Rd. Rm 4005

Wayne, NJ 07470

Phone: 973-720-3717

Fax: 973-720-3670

E-mail: yildizm@wpunj.edu

To see the details of this research project, please visit:

http://euphrates.wpunj.edu/faculty/yildizm/MLI
Text Box: Contact Information Rounded Rectangular Callout: "I learned how to deconstruct commercials, how to use the camera equipment, and how to create a public service announcement. Most importantly, I experienced that every message can be interpreted differently. Depending on the era, personal experience, each sign makes different meaning to different people. Text Box: Media Education is both essential to the exercising of our democratic rights and a necessary safeguard against the worst excesses of media manipulation for political purposes. Len Masterman