This workshop zeroes in on best practices in using digital and media literacy concepts of access, analysis, composition, reflection, and taking action through digital citizenship within the K-2 arena. Learn how to help students as young as 5 and as old as 9 develop critical thinking capabilities, writing and fluency, and media composition skills and understanding through fun activities accessible to *all* teachers, no matter how technology savvy or their technology resources.

1. Renee Hobbs
Professor and Founding Director
Harrington School of Communication
University of Rhode Island
David Cooper Moore
Director
Powerful Voices for Kids

3. Powerful Voices for Kids is a
comprehensive curriculum and
professional development
program for K-6 digital and media
literacy education.

4. www.powerfulvoicesforkids.com

5. Program Components
Summer Program for Students

6. Professional Development
for Educators
Program Components

7. In-School Mentorship
Program Components

8. Research on Children’s Media Use
and Media Literacy Skills
Program Components

9. Building a Learning Community
Program Components
www.powerfulvoicesforkids.com
COMING
JULY 2013

10. LOVE HATE
PRINT VISUAL SOUND DIGITAL
Teachers’ attitudes about media, technology and popular
culture shape their work with children and youth

11. Exploring Teacher Motivations
for Using Media & Technology

12. Understanding teacher motivations can help
educational technology professionals better
collaborate with teachers to support student
learning

13. Exploring Message Purpose
To inform
To entertain
To persuade
When children activate inferential
thinking about message purpose,
they build skills that support
reading comprehension

14. Exploring Constructedeness
When children
examine how
media messages
are constructed,
they become
better at
constructing their
own messages
Video Video

15. Exploring Authors & Audiences
Literacy is a
relational process:
sharing meaning
through symbols
Video Video

16.
Grafe, S., Hobbs, R., Boos, M., Bergey, B. (2012). Teachers´ motivations for media education in
Germany and in the United States. Paper presentation at Digital Media and Learning (DML) Conference,
Los Angeles.
Hobbs, R. & Moore, D. (2013). Discovering media literacy: Teaching digital media and popular culture in
elementary school. Thousand Oaks: Corwin/Sage.
Hobbs, R. (2013). Improvization and strategic risk taking in informal learning with digital media literacy.
Learning, Media and Technology, 38(2), 1 – 28.
Hobbs, R., Yoon, J., Al-Humaidan,
R., Ebrahimi, A. & Cabral, N. (2011). Online digital media in
elementary school. Journal of Middle East Media 7(1), 1 – 23.
Hobbs, R. & Moore, D.C. “Messy Engagement and Strategic Risk Taking as an Instructional Strategy in
Informal Learning,” Paper presentation, International Communication Association (ICA), Phoenix, AZ.
May 28, 2012.
Hobbs, R. , Cohn-Geltner, H. & Landis, J. (2011). Views on the news: Media literacy empowerment
competencies in the elementary grades. In C. Von Feilitzen, U. Carlsson & C. Bucht (Eds.). New
questions, new insights, new approaches. The International Clearinghouse on Children, Youth and
Media. NORDICOM. University of Gothenburg, Sweden (pp. 43 – 56).
Moore, D.C. (2013). Bringing the world to school: Integrating news and media literacy in elementary
classrooms. Journal of Media Literacy Education 5(1), 326-336.
Moore, D.C. (2011). Asking questions first: Navigating transgression and popular culture in an inquiry-
based media literacy classroom. Action in Teacher Education 33(2), 219-230.

17. Powerful Voices for Kids is a
comprehensive curriculum and
professional development
program for K-6 digital and media
literacy education.
CONTACT:
David Cooper Moore
Email: dmoore1@gmail.com

18. Summer Institute
in Digital Literacy
July 14 – 19, 2013
Providence RI
LEARN MORE: www.mediaeducationlab.com