To complement the Media Literacy Week Film Festival, Kendra Hodgson of Women Make Movies and Alexandra Peterson of Media Education Foundation will show clips from the week’s available films and discuss how to incorporate documentaries into your classroom as vehicles to explore key media literacy concepts.
Join the North Carolina Media Literacy Alliance on Thursday, October 27th from 7:00pm to 8:00pm EST for an open-house style meet n’ greet. As an emerging advocacy group, our mission is to advance media literacy awareness within the state of North Carolina by providing opportunities for networking, collaboration, and education. Moderated by Media Literacy Now North Carolina’s Chapter lead, we’ll gather to create energy, inspiration, and action for growing media literacy in the state! You’ll hear about selected initiatives and groups happening in the state as well as have the chance to share your ideas and network.
Abbott Elementary is out to bust all the typical teacher tropes that have manifested in popular culture across time. As Marshall (2016) writes, teachers have predominantly been represented in popular culture as saintly, un-intellectual nurturers, or the opposite, as monsters, all the while presenting a misogynistic view of the teaching profession that’s dominated by women. In this presentation, media literacy educators/scholars, Dr. Stephanie Flores-Koulish and Sr. Rose Pacatte will examine various depictions of teacher depictions in the media, past and present using the critical lenses of media literacy education, and discuss the implications of such depictions on the profession and especially the impact on this female-dominated profession.
This event includes three parts: a screening of the documentary “Trust Me” (2020), a student and faculty respondent panel, and an audience question & answer segment.