Donna Nelson-Schneider
Journalist | News & Media Literacy Advocate
School Board Staff Aide - 10th largest, highly-ranked school district
Mom of twin teen girls
Washington, DC | Fairfax Co, VA
2020 Summer Institute in Digital Literacy - My Learning Progression
Tier 1 Design Project: Media Mindfulness
Tier 1: Dyad Page
Which led to my Dyad Partner and I turning our project into a presentation for...
The 2020 Northeast Media Literacy Conference
NMLC 2020 Media Mindfulness Presentation & Resources
And then I created News & Media Literacy presentation for student journalists - Be An Info Leader - through the Kansas Scholastic Press Association
KSPA 2020-21 Be An Info Leader Presentation (Video)
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Working on deadline for more than 20 years... Growing up in Kansas City... Transition into a new career...
Contact info
Email: donnanel3@gmail.com
Twitter: @donnanel
Essential question exploration
The challenges:
What is the most effective approach to expanding access to news and media literacy lessons? Seeking and evaluating information are critical life skills. As important, technology changes make us all "influencers" with what we share in our online communities -- that information can create powerful movements or lead to confusion with misinformation.
Essential questions:
Many non-profits and groups are working to train teachers and get news and media literacy lessons into the classroom. The one classroom at a time approach...
Would it be more effective to expand access with a greater focus on adding news and media literacy requirements/standards at state and district levels? I know of only one national group working in this area -- Media Literacy Now.
To add these standards - is that only done at the state or district level? Rather than getting a bill passed and signed into law by the Governor, can it instead be directed by a state's Department of Education? If so, how does that work?
Bottom line — what's the most effective way to get these news and media literacy lessons into more classrooms, really make them fully part of the curriculum in schools across the country.
Action Plan:
Action step 1 Recognize aspects of media literacy that are already embedded in curriculum, English, history, science. Reserching and evaluating information should be considered the "4th R". Does that provide allies/a place to start?
Action step 2 Research - How many states have added news and media literacy standards? How was that accomplished in each state? What states are in the pipeline? In states or districts, where news and media literacy standards have been adopted, what has been the impact on students and their understanding and adoption of these skills?
Action step 3 Collborate and build on the approaches of successful efforts.
Project development
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What do you think?
Acknowledgements:
Special thanks to Mariana Ochs for creating this wonderful place for us to create, share ideas