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Introduction:
A Framework for Learning and Teaching in a Media Age
Like a map for a journey, the CML MediaLit Kit™ provides a vision and directions for successfully introducing media literacy in classrooms and community groups from preK to college.
Based on longstanding theoretical foundations, the CML MediaLit Kit™ reflects a philosophy of empowerment through education and articulates the key components of an inquiry-based media literacy education, including the Five Core Concepts and the Five Key Questions of Media Literacy for deconstruction or consumers of media. CML's Five Key Questions of Media Literacy for construction or producers of media are only avialable in the second edition of CML's ground breaking book, Literacy for the 21st Century.
The Empowerment Spiral, contained in both editions of Literacy for the 21st Century, provides a guide to decision-making and action.
The CML MediaLit Kit™ provides, for the first time, an accessible, integrated outline of the established foundational concepts and implementation models needed to assist schools and districts in organizing and structuring teaching activities using a media literacy lens.
By adopting it as a framework for learning and teaching in a media age, the MediaLit Kit™ creates a common vocabulary, generates common understandings and promotes consistent instructional methodology across disciplines, across grade levels, across schools and districts, even states and nations
Most of all using the CML MediaLit Kit™ as the foundation for organizing and teaching media literacy in the k-12 classroom, creates a 21st century learning environment in which students gain the communicating, problem-solving, and decision-making skills needed for living all of their lives in a global media culture.
The MediaLit Kit™ documents can be used individually or together, for training workshops, in-services, library reference and parent/community education as well as in the K-12 classroom. In addition, the CML MediaLit Kit™ and its various elements, is available for licensing to publishers, training organizations and service agencies needing an established framework for incorporating inquiry-based media literacy in their own products and services.
“…A marvelous piece of work – clear, concise, the distillation of the most available research and practice…As a framework for taking teachers through all of the necessary stages, components, ideas and assumptions about media literacy, it could scarcely be bettered. I hope it gets into the hands of every teacher in the land.”
Len Masterman, author, Teaching the Media
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