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Author: Roy S. Whitehurst
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint: Routledge
Weight: 0.580kg
ISBN: 9781032748603
ISBN 10: 1032748605
Pages: 308
Publication Date: 30 August 2024
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
"""Roy Whitehurst's Teaching Media Literacy with Social Media News is exceptional in the media literacy field. Leveraging his CIA expertise, it offers educators a well-researched toolkit with practical techniques, real-world examples, and engaging lesson plans. This indispensable guide empowers teachers to help students excel in our complex digital world, fostering critical thinking about contemporary media."" -Tim Jones, Library Media Specialist and K-12 Media Literacy Teacher of the Year 2023 (NAMLE). “In a complex information environment, learning how to evaluate different kinds of information is essential for tweens and teens in and beyond the classroom. The excellent help and advice in “Teaching News Literacy With Social Media: Practical Techniques For Middle and High School Classrooms” will be a boon to teachers and students. A wide variety of lesson plans, exercises and information will help teachers develop their students’ critical thinking skills. Exercises using popular social media platforms will help make the lessons relevant to students.” -Joanna Burkhardt, Faculty Librarian, University of Rhode Island “If ever there was a time for this book, this is it. Forces are at work overtime to fool media illiterate students. Roy Whitehurst is uniquely qualified to provide educators with a critically important tool for their toolbox. You'll be pleased to have this one on the shelf for teachers. -Frank W Baker, Media Literacy Clearinghouse, 2019 UNESCO Honoree"
"""Roy Whitehurst's 'Teaching News Literacy with Social Media' is exceptional in the media literacy field. Leveraging his CIA expertise, it offers educators a well-researched toolkit with practical techniques, real-world examples, and engaging lesson plans. This indispensable guide empowers teachers to help students excel in our complex digital world, fostering critical thinking about contemporary media."" -Tim Jones, Library Media Specialist and K-12 Media Literacy Teacher of the Year 2023 (NAMLE). “In a complex information environment, learning how to evaluate different kinds of information is essential for tweens and teens in and beyond the classroom. The excellent help and advice in “Teaching News Literacy With Social Media: Practical Techniques For Middle and High School Classrooms” will be a boon to teachers and students. A wide variety of lesson plans, exercises and information will help teachers develop their students’ critical thinking skills. Exercises using popular social media platforms will help make the lessons relevant to students.” -Joanna Burkhardt, Faculty Librarian, University of Rhode Island. “If ever there was a time for this book, this is it. Forces are at work overtime to fool media illiterate students. Roy Whitehurst is uniquely qualified to provide educators with a critically important tool for their toolbox. You'll be pleased to have this one on the shelf for teachers. -Frank W Baker, Media Literacy Clearinghouse, 2019 UNESCO Honoree"
Author Information
Roy S. Whitehurst is a retired Media Analyst Instructor for the CIA. Roy spent 30+ years evaluating written information, photos, videos, and other media collected by the CIA before becoming an instructor, teaching media literacy skills to new CIA analysts.
