"Literacy is expanding, and English language arts (ELA) educators at all levels must help learners develop the knowledge, skills, and competencies needed for life in an increasingly digital and mediated world. Media education is defined as the study of the media with the aim of cultivating people’s media literacy competencies (Lee, 2010). For people of all ages, media function as a public pedagogy due to their influential role in “organizing, shaping, and disseminating information, ideas, and values” (Kellner & Share, 2007, p. 3). To address inequalities in digital technologies and competencies, continuing curricular innovation in the ELA curriculum at all levels of K–12 education is needed."
Read the full Position Statement on Media Education in English Language Arts from NCTE
STANDARDS: Reading Standards for Literature, Reading Standards for Informational Text
STRANDS: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas, Key Ideas, Craft and Structure
Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts
The Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts Reading Standards for Literature Integration of Knowledge and Ideas strand includea analyzing different media forms, and other strands such as Key Ideas and Details and Craft and Structure could easily be applied to other media forms beyond print media. Reading Standards for Informational Text are also readily applicable to other media forms, and Integration of Knowledge and Ideas strand specifically mentions different media forms.
Special Issues—Critical Media Literacy: Bringing Lives to Texts, edited by Tom Liam Lynch a topical compilation of current scholarship published in journals of the National Council of Teachers of English. Download the Special Issue below: