What’s Our Position? A Study of Critical Media Literacy with Middle School Students

• In Event: Roundtable Session 42
  In Roundtable Session: Research in Reading and Literacy SIG Roundtable 3: Reading and Writing

Abstract

The researchers implemented critical media literacy pedagogy with an eighth grade special education class. Data sources included Camtasia recordings of students’ online reading work, their paper and digital products, quantitative data from pre- and post-study assessments, including a control group, and post-study interviews. Students first explored popular culture websites for critical media literacy understandings. Students then created glogs in response to issues in teenage popular culture websites. The researchers used a critical media literacy framework, plus concepts in online reading comprehension and multimodal design to determine what understandings as critical readers of websites the students exhibited and how these understandings contributed to their development as 21st century literate people.

Authors

• Theodore B. Kesler, Queens College - CUNY

• Pablo L. Tinio, Queens College - CUNY