3-2-1 TUESDAYS WITH MS NIV

Issue #178, 5th December 2023

How do you interact with the media around you? How do your students consume media? How do you interpret, deconstruct, and fact-check the media you, your students, your children, and your colleagues consume and share with each other? Is it part of your curriculum? does it form a part of your dinner table discussion? Media literacy connects school and the daily life of our students. If you are not already bringing media into your curriculum resources, every day, this is a good time to start. If you are doing it sometimes, then it is time to bring it in all the time.

Here are some thoughts that you might find useful as a parent and/or an educator for your child and/or students.

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Three images of the week

Two Thoughts of the Week

“When people talk to me about the digital divide, I think of it not so much about who has access to what technology as about who knows how to create and express themselves in the new language of the screen. If students aren’t taught the language of sound and images, shouldn’t they be considered as illiterate as if they left college without being able to read and write?” George Lucas

“Computing is not about computers anymore.” It is about living. Nicholas Negroponte

One Video of the Week

Quijada is the executive director of the Media Literacy Project. With more than a decade of experience as a media literacy trainer, and 20 years as a community organizer, she has a deep passion for media justice. Quijada presents nationally and internationally on the impact of media on culture, politics, and technology. She has co-founded various organizations in Albuquerque, including Young Women United, a reproductive justice organization by and for young women of color.

Quijada is particularly interested in media as a tool for self-determination and movement building.

Guest Expert of the Week:

Reading with Ms. Meenu.

Book Clubs:

Book clubs are an important part of connecting readers with each other and emergent readers. Book clubs promote adding context for the importance of questioning and inferring to comprehend text and having great conversations about books. Book clubs can be a connection between young library readers and adult public library readers. Readers can focus on many aspects of reading.

What do book clubs do?

·         How readers figure out the unknown word level, plot level, idea level, character level, etc.

·         Predictions with text support, how readers use prior knowledge plus text to get smarter, and how the reader writes the book.

·         Reading content focuses on questioning and how do questions help us read better?

·         What types of questions help us understand?

·         What different purposes do questions serve?

·         Reading content focuses on inferring and how to make predictions about text and confirm or contradict predictions as you read.

In a Teacher Librarian’s role book clubs play an important role and create a community of avid readers. Young adult readers participate in buddy reading activities and encourage junior readers to be part of it. Educators have seen many positive results of running Book Clubs in their libraries or local bookshops to inspire young readers into a reading environment.

Happy Reading!

Meenu Gera, Consulting home and school librarian and reading guide.

And Finally…

Dear reader,
I have been a research scientist, a journalist, and an educator for over 3 decades. I read and, I write. With this weekly newsletter, I share what I read, learn, and, experience. At the same time, I engage with students, parents, and teams of teachers across K-12 schools, higher education institutions, and ed-tech organizations.

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