Bibliography

Annotated Bibliography

Article 1

Abilock, D. (November/December 2003). Seven power lens on 21^st century literacy. Noodletools.com. http://www.noodletools.com/debbie/literacies/newsmedia/PowerLensSingle.pdf

This article explains what critical thinking skills and media literacy are.  They break it down into 7 sections (Lens) focusing on the news media and how students can analyze it.

Article 2

Hobbs, R. Teaching media Literacy: Yo! Are you hip to this?. Center for Media Literacy.

http://www.medialit.org/reading-room/teaching-media-literacy-yo-are-you-hip

This article is about the importance of Media Literacy in the public school classrooms.

Article 3

Kellner, D. and Share, J. (2005, September).  Toward critical media literacy: Core concepts, debates,organizations, and policy. Discourse: studies in the cultural politics of education. 26, (3): 369-386.

http://pages.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/kellner/essays/2005_Kellner-Share_TowardsCriticalMediaLiteracy.pdf

This article discusses how the United States is behind in critical media skills compared to other countries.   In addition, it discusses different cultures and how media skills can be used to positively teach many things.

Article 4

 Semali, L. (2001, November). Defining new literacies in curricular practice. Reading Online, 5(4). Available: http://www.readingonline.org/newliteracies/lit_index.asp?HREF=semali1/index.html

This article defines new literacies and their place in the classroom and curriculum.

Article 5

Sauer, H., Robles-Pina, R. (Fall, 2003). Magazines: what adolescent girls are reading and the way they shape body image. AdvancingWomen.com.

http://www.advancingwomen.com/awl/winter2003/SAUERR~1.html

This final article that I have selected, discusses how media affects young girls and their body images.  I don’t know that I will use this information but I would like to incorporate it in some way.