The 2007 National Media Education Conference was last week in St. Louis, run by the The Alliance for a Media Literate America. Their stated mission is "To stimulate growth in media literacy education in the United States by organizing and providing national leadership, advocacy, networking, and information exchange." Their goal is "To help all people to be able to critically analyze and create messages using the wide variety of technological tools now available in and out of school." I'm not seeing anyone representing the library world on the board of directors, but perhaps I've just not read their bios closely enough yet. In any case, they have an interesting looking 8-page publication posted on their site, Core Principles of Media Literacy Education.
The keynote address at the National Media Education Conference was delivered by Henry Jenkins, the Director of the MIT Comparative Media Studies Program; the article What Wikipedia Can Teach Us About the New Media Literacies is based on that address. We need to teach kids when and how to use resources like Wikipedia, instead of telling them to just say no.
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