Baker

Frank W. Baker

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Baker is a consultant and workshop educator based in South Carolina who focuses on 21st literacy skills in the classroom. He writes and teaches on integrating media and culture in the k12 environment. His website, The Media Literacy Clearinghouse, promotes critical thinking skills in the classroom using media sources. He wants educators to be able to effectively teach students to identify media, understand the process behind the media, its message, and how it impacts the population.

'Storytelling Through Film' media type="youtube" key="PW7X-fY7gUA" height="315" width="420" Here he is explaining to children how there are all kinds of things that have to go on for a movie to be made and how you never see many of the people who are involved in the process. He works to give the students a more active understanding of the media, instead of simply being a passive consumer.

This is an area that should be stressed more, especially as we find ourselves increasingly using media in the classroom in addition to being exposed to it outside as well. There is lots of information to be had, some might say information overload, and we should be teaching our children (and ourselves) how to vet this information and resist taking it straight for fact--but instead to look further into its meaning and where it comes from. ~ARW