Media Literacy for Young Children: Teaching Beyond the Screen Time Debates

Midwest
Book Review calls this book a ＂ seminal and groundbreaking instructional
guide [that] is an essential and substantive contribution that should be a part
of every professional, school district, college, and academic library Early
Child Education and Media Literacy collections and supplemental curriculum
studies lists.＂ It’s also a Spring
2023 Smart Book winner from the Academics’ Choice Awards.

Media literacy is
about wonder and imagination, questioning and learning, thinking and
reflecting!

Media Literacy for
Young Children: Teaching Beyond the Screen Time Debates is about all these
things, and more importantly, it is about how early childhood educators and
professionals can prepare children for their digital future.

This book is a first-of-its-kind guide for pre-service and currently
practicing teachers and child care professionals looking for pedagogically
sound and developmentally appropriate ways to help today’s children navigate
their media-rich world with confidence, curiosity, and critical thinking.
Detailed descriptions of media literacy competencies, along with dozens of
activities, strategies, and tips designed for children ages 2-7, demonstrate
how to integrate foundational skills, knowledge, and dispositions into existing
routines as well as experiment with new lessons.

By examining media through a literacy lens, this book will show you ways
to

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Use inquiry and media-making to teach children about
media

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Plan activities to engage children in meaningful media
discussions

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Engage with families about the importance of media
literacy education for young children

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Address media concerns with joy and creativity rather
than anxiety or fear

. . . and much
more!

Faith Rogow, PhD, is a media literacy
leader, innovator, and founder of Insighters Educational Consulting. She was
the founding president of the National Association for Media Literacy Education
(NAMLE), a founding editorial board member of the Journal for Media Literacy Education, a founding advisor to Project
Look Sharp, and a coauthor of NAMLE’s ＂Core Principles of Media Literacy Education
in the United States＂ (2007). For more than twenty years she has been one of
the few people in the

United States advocating for and creating media literacy education that
is developmentally appropriate for early childhood. Her groundbreaking article
＂The ABCs of Media Literacy＂ (Telemedium, Spring 2002) has been widely
circulated, as has her chapter--＂Media Literacy in Early Childhood Education: Inquiry-Based
Technology Integration＂--in the Routledge/NAEYC anthology Technology and Digital Media in the Early Years: Tools for Teaching and
Learning (Donohue 2015). She also coauthored
The Teacher’s Guide to Media Literacy: Critical Thinking in a MultimediaWorld (Corwin, 2012).

www.insighterseducation.com