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What animation exists out there that’s regularly screened in schools or shelved in libraries that’s the equivalent of MG or YA lit—feature films (not TV shows) that speak to young people but not to “children”?
Teaching librarians and language arts educators have, via fandom, a unique opening to reframe netiquette as something other than a subset of character education or online safety.
I'll hazard that many of us don't immediately think "games" when we think of "transliteracy," but why not?
Why is the case so strenuously made for a potential Best Picture win for 'Life of Pi'?
"There’s a shift towards a more multimodal ways of communicating through digital videos, VoiceThread, and graphic novels/comics that is more appealing and engaging to adolescents who now expect such multimodal ways of learning..."
All movies are message movies because, as media texts, they all have media messages.
A program that's basic in a lot of ways, but also very, very solid...
"By encouraging their students to create comic strips, teachers accomplish important goals: they prepare their students for being able to appreciate art more, to gain visual literacy."
"Visual literacy is as old as humanity. Humans learned to communicate visually before they communicated with text. It’s really not new; it just might feel new."
The limitations of most Comics Creation software are actually strengths when it comes to learning about media and enhancing critical thinking skills...
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