Integrating Media Literacy Across the Content Areas

Author

Matthew Korona, Amy Hutchison

Year

2023

Publisher

Reading Research Quarterly

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Abstract

Teachers must first acquire the necessary media literacy skills, strategies,
dispositions, and pedagogy to impactfully integrate media literacy into their
instruction. Furthermore, previous studies have suggested designing curricu
lar resources as an effective form of media literacy professional learning.
This case study examined how high school teachers of different content areas
integrate media literacy into their instruction while participating in an on
line professional development course and how high school teachers applied
the content from a media literacy online professional development course
to design media literacy instruction. Findings indicated teachers made mi
nor changes to their previous instructional practice, which indicated that
participating in the online course led them to think about media literacy
integration in new ways. Additionally, teachers applied the online profes
sional development content by using media to build background knowledge,
offering explicit media literacy strategy instruction and support, promoting
independent practice at the intersection of content curricula and media lit
eracy, and assigning media production to demonstrate content knowledge.
Recommendations include equipping teachers with media literacy back
ground knowledge, examining instruction stemming from media literacy pro
fessional development, and empowering teachers to design media literacy
instruction through critical lenses.

Keywords

media literacy, critical, content

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