Updates

For class on November 9, please read //Developing Ethical Behaviors in Students// by Doug Johnson, available at []

We will be examining the following from the Visual/Digital/Media Literacy area of our Resource List in class on October 26:

//Picture This: How Pictures Work// by Molly Bang //Graphic Novels 101: FAQ// by Robin Brenner //Critical Media Literacy: Commercial Advertising// from ReadWriteThink //Is it Fake or Foto?// Media Literacy Clearinghouse, Frank W. Baker //Reading Lessons// by Hollis Margaret Rudiger Tips on Photo Ethics by Sree Sreenivasan

For more information, the January/February 2008 issue of //Knowledge Quest// focuses on visual literacy.

We will also examine presidential election commercials at [|www.livingroomcandidate.org] and [|Digital Forensics: Photo Tampering through History]

Helpful background for class October 19:

[|ICT Skills curriculum Based on the Big 6] (also listed on your Resource page under Critical Thinking and Curriculum

[|10 Quick Ways to Analyze Children's Books for Racism and Sexism]

[|"Save the Muslim Girl!"] from Rethinking Schools

Focus on Critical Thinking & Research Skills: PBS Teachers - [|Using Primary Source Documents and Artifacts in Research]

Primary Sources wiki

Please update your readings for September 28 class: delete //Search Engines: One More Time with Feeling.// Instead please read //Start Your Search Engines: Taming Google (and Other Tips)// by Anne Adam and Helen Mowers, available online at []

If the Internet Search Challenge - Kermit - is too easy for you at the novice level, feel free the choose a harder one here: []. Come to class prepared to share your search process and remember, don't spend more than 10 minutes on the search.

Announcements for September 28:



Announcements for October 5:





Revisit: Underpowered ﻿PowerPoint on Searching Skills is available here: Did You Know 4.0 at []

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A Vision of K-12 Student Today at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_A-ZVCjfWf8

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Allan Levine's 50 Ways to Tell a Story http://cogdogroo.wikispaces.com/50+Ways