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Columbus Metropolitan Club - Critical Thinking About Media Messages in an Election Year
Media Literacy:
Critical Thinking About Media Messages in the 21st Century
Frank Baker, Media Literacy Consultant
Are you ready for the barrage of hard-hitting commercials, smiling politicians the size of elephants parading by on the sides of COTA buses, t-shirted volunteers on street corners and wads of campaign literature stuck in ever nook and cranny as the political season in a hotly contested election looms on the horizon?
Daily hundreds of media messages compete for our attention and during the political season the messages escalate! Media educator Frank Baker will speak on media education and its role in 21st century classrooms, media literacy and elections - focusing on the media's coverage of campaigns, political advertising, and how being media literate can help voters decipher the facts.
A journalism graduate of the University of Georgia, Baker worked in television news from 1977 to 1986, at stations in South Carolina, Maryland and Florida. In 1987, he joined the Orange County (Orlando, FL) Public School System as an administrator in the areas of Instructional TV and Distance Education. While there, he collaborated with both Time Warner Cable and The Orlando Sentinel to bring media literacy education to teachers and students in the nation's 16th largest school district. Upon returning to South Carolina in 1997, he taught a college level media literacy course for educators and developed a nationally recognized media literacy resource website.
Critical Thinking About Media Messages in the 21st Century
Frank Baker, Media Literacy Consultant
Are you ready for the barrage of hard-hitting commercials, smiling politicians the size of elephants parading by on the sides of COTA buses, t-shirted volunteers on street corners and wads of campaign literature stuck in ever nook and cranny as the political season in a hotly contested election looms on the horizon?
Daily hundreds of media messages compete for our attention and during the political season the messages escalate! Media educator Frank Baker will speak on media education and its role in 21st century classrooms, media literacy and elections - focusing on the media's coverage of campaigns, political advertising, and how being media literate can help voters decipher the facts.
A journalism graduate of the University of Georgia, Baker worked in television news from 1977 to 1986, at stations in South Carolina, Maryland and Florida. In 1987, he joined the Orange County (Orlando, FL) Public School System as an administrator in the areas of Instructional TV and Distance Education. While there, he collaborated with both Time Warner Cable and The Orlando Sentinel to bring media literacy education to teachers and students in the nation's 16th largest school district. Upon returning to South Carolina in 1997, he taught a college level media literacy course for educators and developed a nationally recognized media literacy resource website.
August 2, 2006