Renee Hobbs gives a keynote address to Rhode Island School Librarians on August 13, 2013 to demonstrate how the close reading and careful analysis skills that are emphasized in CCCS ELA-Literacy support the kind of student-centered inquiry that blends the use of both popular culture and academic informational texts, creating relevance and independent thinking which support intellectual curiosity.

1. Messy Engagement:
The Heart of the
Common Core
Renee Hobbs
Professor and Founding Director
Harrington School of Communication and Media
University of Rhode Island USA
Email: hobbs@uri.edu
Twitter: reneehobbs
Web: http://mediaeducationlab.com

2. Harrington School of Communication
and Media

3. The Heart of the Common Core
• Engage in close, attentive reading that is at the
heart of understanding and enjoying complex
works
• Select from among the staggering amount of
information available today in print and digitally
• Critically analyze informational texts that build
knowledge, enlarge experience, and broaden
worldviews
• Compose using reasoning and evidence for both
private deliberation and responsible citizenship
• Build foundational skills using a wide range of
tools and media for creative and purposeful
expression

5. what is the Internet for?

6. Dance Like Lady Gaga
Do Research at the
Virtual School Library

8. LINK

9. digital & media literacy
helps build bridges between
classroom and culture

10. ACCESS
ANALYZEE
CREATE ACT
REFLECT
ACCESS
expanding the concept of literacy

11. Digital & Media Literacy Competencies
Access, Use and Share
 Keyboard and mouse skills
 Be familiar with hardware, storage and file
management practices
 Understand hyperlinking & digital space
 Gain competence with software applications
 Use social media, mobile, peripheral & cloud
computing tools
 Identify information needs
 Use effective search and find strategies
 Troubleshoot and problem-solve
 Learn how to learn
 Listening skills
 Reading comprehension

12. Digital & Media Literacy Competencies
Analyze & Evaluate
 Understand how symbols work: the
concept of representation
 Identify the author, genre, purpose and
point of view of a message
 Compare and contrast sources
 Evaluate credibility and quality
 Understand one’s own biases
and world view
 Recognize power relationships that shape
how information and ideas circulate in
culture
 Understand the economic context of
information and entertainment production
 Examine the political and social
ramifications of inequalities in information
flows

13. Digital & Media Literacy Competencies
Create & Collaborate
 Recognize the need for communication and
self-expression
 Identify your own purpose, target
audience, medium & genre
 Brainstorm and generate ideas
 Compose creatively
 Play and interact
 Edit and revise
 Use appropriate distribution, promotion &
marketing channels
 Receive audience feedback
 Work collaboratively
 Comment, curate and remix

14. Digital & Media Literacy Competencies
Reflect
 Understand how differences in values and
life experience shape people’s media use
and message interpretation
 Appreciate risks and potential harms of
digital media
 Apply ethical judgment and
social responsibility to online
communication situations
 Understand how concepts of ‘private’ and
‘public’ are reshaped by digital media
 Appreciate and respect legal rights and
responsibilities (copyright, intellectual
freedom, etc)

15. Digital & Media Literacy Competencies
Take Action
 Acknowledge the power of
communication to maintain the status
quo or change the world
 Participate in communities of shared
interest to advance an issue
 Be a change agent in the family &
workplace
 Participate in democratic self-
governance
 Speak up when you
encounter injustice
 Respect the law and work to change
unjust laws
 Use the power of communication and
information to make a difference in the
world

16. ACCESS
ANALYZEE
CREATE ACT
REFLECT
ACCESS
expanding the concept of literacy

17. project-based inquiry learning

24. LINK

25. The Heart of the Common Core
Digital and media literacy supports
learning by:
encouraging complex interactions
between learners and texts
supporting intellectual curiosity,
critical analysis and reflection
helping learners compose messages
using reasoning and evidence that
supports independent thinking
building confidence and a sense of
agency in purposeful self-expression

26. closing the gap between
classroom & culture
creates relevance

27. relevance ignites intellectual curiosity

28. intellectual curiosity fuels lifelong learning

29. www.MediaEducationLab.com
Professor Renee Hobbs
Harrington School of Communication and Media
University of Rhode Island USA
Email: hobbs@uri.edu
Twitter: reneehobbs