Readers and Reading in a Digital Age
Improving Reading Comprehension by Using Media Literacy Activities By Renee Hobbs Some literacy educators still hold to the idea that audiovisual media and digital technologies are the enemies of print culture, but a growing number of educators are exploring the synergistic relationship between different forms of reading that occur when the concept of text is expanded to include images, graphic design, multimodality, moving image media, and online content. At home, parents cultivate children's understanding of story structure by engaging in activities that involve children's re-telling of books, cartoons, games, and short films. They pause children's videos to ask questions, comment on action and predict what will happen next. Such practices cultivate viewing as a cognitively active process, a concept that was first articulated in the 1970s but continues to be more deeply appreciated with the rise of YouTube culture, where the distinction between authors and audiences is diminished. During the elementary grades, teachers use media literacy competencies when reading children's picturebooks, calling attention to when the words of a story and the image of the story conflict or deliver different messages. Active "reading" of picture books is a practice that foregrounds the meaning-making process and elevates reading comprehension beyond mere decoding. When educators reframe their work with youth as less about passing high-stakes tests and more about learning to navigate the multiple literacy contexts in which they live, learn, and work, students' motivation for reading increases. For this reason, literacy specialists are exploring links between disciplinary literacy, inquiry, and media literacy. Media literacy instructional practices honor students' popular culture and lived experience, and offer opportunities for students to bring their affect, emotion, imagination, and social interaction into reading practices that examine and challenge cultural conventions like materialism and consumerism that are reproduced in media culture on a daily basis.
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Readers and Reading in a Digital Age
- 1. THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF CROATIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICATION SCIENCES Improving Reading Comprehension by Using Media Literacy Activities Renee Hobbs University of Rhode Island USA
- 2. What’s Your Deepest Fear?
- 4. If we banish from our minds, our libraries, and our classrooms any examination of politics, religion, race, environment, sex, justice, and the like, we might protect ourselves from the possible discomfort we might experience. All we have to do is trivialize the curriculum to the point that few will be bothered by anything. If we can make instruction completely insignificant, utterly irrelevant to anyone’s emotional and intellectual life, then absolutely no one should rise up to protest the threat we pose to treasured beliefs, valued affiliations, or well- established habits of thought and action. --Kylene Beers, “A Curriculum of Irrelevancy”
- 5. Is your use of media & digital technologies reproducing or transforming the educational status quo? @reneehobbs
- 6. What’s Your Deepest Fear? Assignment: Confront the anxieties you have about the future of education. Reflect and write about them, addressing the question, “Is your use of media & digital technologies reproducing or transforming the status quo?
- 7. Media & information literacy connects the classroom to the culture
- 8. How should the internet & social media be regulated? How can I control who uses my data? How should our nation respond to the needs of migrants and immigrants? How do we reduce racism & inequality? What rights do people have to self-expression? What are the limits? Should students be able to use their mobile phones in school?
- 9. BEING ONLINE Access & Inclusion Learning & Creativity Media & Information Literacy WELLBEING ONLINE Ethics & Empathy Health & Wellbeing E-Presence & Communication RIGHTS ONLINE Active Participation Rights & Responsibilities Privacy & Security Consumer Awareness Council of Europe (2018). Digital Citizenship Education (DCE).
- 10. Literacy education is expanding to meet the needs of learners who face changing media, technologies, culture, and society To understand and use digital media wisely, learners and teachers must consider issues of pleasure, personalization, and power When learners create media, they build confidence and advance intellectual curiosity that fuels lifelong learning Preview of Key Ideas
- 11. Literacy is the sharing of meaning through symbols
- 12. social connection / civic engagement / identity / performance / play Literacy for empowerment
- 13. Literacy for protection disinformation / stereotypes / surveillance/ addiction / propaganda
- 17. LITERACY ANALYZE ACCESS ACT REFLECT CREATE Inquiry Reading Search Curation Credibility Analysis Creativity Multimodal Writing Digital Skills Dialogue Collaboration Emotional Response Ethical Reasoning Cultural, Political, Economic & Social Understanding
- 18. LITERACY ANALYZE ACCESS ACT REFLECT CREATE Inquiry Reading Search Curation Credibility Analysis Creativity Multimodal Writing Digital Skills Dialogue Collaboration Emotional Response Ethical Reasoning Cultural, Political, Economic & Social Understanding Citizenship Activism
- 19. Topics we are not talking enough about in literacy education
- 21. Curate 3 GIFS Assignment: Select 3 GIFs to represent your identity as a literate individual and explain what they mean to you.
- 25. Screencast Read-Aloud Assignment: Select an online text that interests you. Make a screencast where you read an excerpt aloud. Then, explain the main idea of the text in your own words. What’s one question you find yourself wondering about after reading?
- 26. Screencasting for Reading Comprehension
- 27. After viewing, discuss: What pleasures are engaged by making a screencast read-aloud?
- 28. Interrogating Pleasure through Defamiliarization (noun): the artistic technique of presenting common things in an unfamiliar or strange way in order to enhance perception of the familiar and stimulate critical and creative thinking. Defamiliarization By "enstranging" objects and complicating form, the device of art makes perception long and "laborious." The perceptual process in art has a purpose all its own and ought to be extended to the fullest. Art is a means of experiencing the process of creativity. — Viktor Shklovsky, Theory of Prose
- 29. Defamiliarization Assignment: Create a short video that takes something ordinary and makes it seem strange. Try to activate questions in the minds of your viewers using this technique.
- 30. Defamiliarization Making the familiar seem strange
- 31. Turn & Talk Why is is useful to “make the familiar strange” when it comes to the pleasures of using digital media and technology?
- 38. People have a love-hate relationship with personalization
- 39. Algorithms enable personalization of information, entertainment & persuasive content
- 40. Your Netflix is Not My Netflix
- 41. Surveillance enables marketers to use price discrimination & other strategies to manipulate consumer behavior
- 42. Your Amazon is Not My Amazon
- 43. What Google Knows About Me
- 44. Your Google is Not My Google
- 45. The epistemological implications of personalization
- 46. Learning to Read Personalized Advertising How can students understand & reflect on the personalization of advertising?
- 47. GLOBAL SPENDING ON ADVERTISING In 2021 $749 BILLION Google, Facebook, Amazon, Alibaba and ByteDance received 46% of global ad spending Sponsored Content Influencers Geo Location Targeting Dark Patterns Nudging Personalized Advertising
- 50. Compare and Contrast Assignment: Work with a partner to select 2 texts and examine how they are similar and different from one another. In the process, make interpretations, see connections between ideas, and examine the varying purposes and points of view to build deeper understanding Compare and Contrast
- 52. Compare & Contrast Google Search Engine Results Pages Students share screenshots of search activities using the same keywords on the same day
- 55. Compare & Contrast Propaganda
- 58. LINK LINK Literacy education builds comprehension, critical thinking, collaboration, and communication skills
- 59. Compare and Contrast Assignment: Create a media text to represent your learning and share it with an audience. Create to Learn
- 60. The Power of Media Production
- 61. The Power of Media Production Powerful Voices for Kids
- 62. The Power of Media Production English Grade 10 Literature
- 63. The Power of Media Production High school student-produced documentary, National History Day
- 65. LITERACY ANALYZE ACCESS ACT REFLECT CREATE Inquiry Reading Search Curation Credibility Analysis Creativity Multimodal Writing Digital Skills Dialogue Collaboration Emotional Response Ethical Reasoning Cultural, Political, Economic & Social Understanding Citizenship Activism
- 66. 1. Appreciating & Disrupting Pleasure with Defamiliarization 2. Reflecting on Personalization Using Comparison/Contrast 3. Experiencing Power Through Create-to-Learn Pedagogies
- 67. Digital literacy is responsive to the needs of learners who face changing media, technologies, culture and society To understand media, technology & culture today, learners and teachers must consider issues of pleasure, personalization, and power When learners create media, they build confidence and advance intellectual curiosity that fuels lifelong learning Review of Key Ideas
- 68. Renee Hobbs Professor of Communication Studies Director, Media Education Lab Harrington School of Communication & Media University of Rhode Island USA Email: hobbs@uri.edu Twitter: @reneehobbs LEARN MORE Web: www.mediaeducationlab.com