Teachingmedialiteracy.com: A Web-Linked Guide to Resources and Activities
Chapter 1: Goals and Curriculum Frameworks for Media Literacy Instruction
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[1.2.1] Media Literacy and Adolescents: Teenagers and Screenagers.
[1.2.2] In a large study of British adolescents’ media uses by Sonia Livingstone (2002) (click here for an earlier report of the data) found that interactive computer technologies are becoming part of the infrastructure of the home although new media have not displaced children’s current leisure activities and the use of media is a highly individualized matter.
[1.2.3] Another study by Knowledge Networks/SRI found that close to two-thirds (61%) of kids now have a TV set in their bedrooms, 17% also have their own PC, 35% of kids have videogame systems, 14% have their own DVD player, and 9% have internet access in their own bedrooms.
[1.2.4] A 2003 survey by Grunwald Associates, found that more than 2 million American children ages 6 -17 have their own personal websites (44% of those were ages 13-17) that 23 million kids have Internet access from home.
[1.2.5] Through engaging in on-line peer interactions, students are acquiring a range of different literacies. See analysis by Choi and Ho (2003).
[1.2.6] Writing in readingonline.org, David O’Brien argues for the need to juxtapose more traditional school literacies with media literacies to address the issue of adolescents who disengage from print texts in schools.
[1.2.7] Go to Renee Hobbs's web site: and click on Hobbs, R. & Frost, R. (2003). Measuring the acquisition of media-literacy skills. Reading Research Quarterly 38(3), 330 - 355.
[1.2.8] See the work being done at the MIT Media Lab on new forms of learning.