ISSUE #19 • OCTOBER 2018
MEDIA LITERACY
Media Literacy is more important now than ever before. In this issue, we’re sharing our tips, tricks and thoughts for preparing students who are media and arts literate.
LATEST ARTICLES
How to Get Administrative Buy-In for Arts Integration
I’ve been thinking a lot about how important it is for teachers and students to have administrative buy-in for arts integration. Essentially, low administrative buy-in can squash efforts to integrate the arts in classrooms. [...]
RESOURCES TO PRINT
Classroom Playlists: Bringing Learning to Life
One of the most visible benefits of arts integration is the increase in student engagement. Everyone wants their students to connect to their content area. What better way than through the use of Popular [...]
ABCs to Shake Up the Learning Environment
"Learning Environment" is a broad term that is defined around the internet as being the diverse contexts, physical spaces, and cultures where students learn. When I think of contexts for learning, I think of [...]
CLASSROOM IDEAS
Navigating the Tangled Web of Media Literacy
Where does one even begin with Media Literacy and Arts/STEAM integration?! In the not-too-distant past, media and its availability referenced a finite collection of tools and resources. At the risk of adding to the number [...]
Cultivating Criticism in Media Arts
Teachers are busy. They are juggling mandated curriculums and testing. They're dealing with student illiteracy and new educational programming. Additionally, some are dealing with unsupportive families or communities. Amidst all this, the necessity for [...]
Internet Scavenger Hunt: Halloween Edition
Internet Scavenger Hunts build computer competency and research skills. Additionally, they’re fun! You can use these as standalone activities or as introductions to a lesson or unit. I use Internet Scavenger Hunts with Google [...]
Media Arts and Math… Amazing!
Visual art combined with technology equals amazing Media Arts! In 2014, the National Core Arts Standards added Media arts to the four traditional art forms: visual art, music, theater, and dance. Students [...]
Science, Art and Meaningful Integration
Everyone agrees that science and art are essential, yes? They're essential to who we are as humans. They help us understand our world. And yet, where is the science and art integration? They are [...]
How To Help Your Students Become Media Literate
Media literacy is more important than ever. So important, that there is an entire section devoted to it in the framework for 21st Century Learning. It states, "To be effective in the 21st century, [...]
Broadcasting Your Classroom
Rise and Shine Eagles! This is the wake up my students every morning from our news studio. My school is lucky enough to have a studio that broadcasts live every morning. The kids hear [...]
Too Much Art? The Misconceptions of STEAM
"There's just too much art in these STEAM lessons". This was the statement shared with me during a meeting with a STEAM coordinator. He was from a school district looking at our Arts Integration [...]
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