Renee Hobbs, Professor, Founder
Temple University
http://mediaeducationlab.com
Three Expertise Keywords:
curriculum-and-instruction, digital-media, media-and-learning, media-literacy-education
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Why Digital Media and Learning?
It’s important for people to have the habits of inquiry and skills of communication needed to be critical thinkers, effective communicators and active citizens in today’s world.
Recent Posts:
- Renee Hobbs: Toward an End to Copyright Confusion (November 24, 2008)
Description of Current Work:
Renee Hobbs is a leading authority on media literacy education. She is a Professor at the School of Communications and Theater at Temple University in Philadelphia and holds a joint appointment at the College of Education. She has just completed a project to develop a code of best practices for media literacy educators to better understand copyright and fair use, in a project with Peter Jaszi and Pat Aufderheide at American University, funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
Selected Publications/Projects/Articles/Press:
Her book, Reading the Media: Media Literacy in High School English was published by Columbia University Teachers College Press in 2007. Hobbs developed My Pop Studio (http://www.mypopstudio.com), an online multimedia learning environment to introduce media literacy to adolescent girls, ages 9 - 14, in a project funded by the Office on Women’s Health. Her work with Maryland State Department of Education and the Discovery Channel led to the development of Assignment: Media Literacy, a comprehensive K-12 media literacy curriculum and staff development program that has reached 2,700 teachers in the State of Maryland. In 2003, her curriculum, Viewing and Representing in Texas, based on the Maryland project, enables the Texas Education Agency, with support from the Texas Cable and Telecommunication Association, to provide the first statewide training of large numbers of secondary English teachers all across Texas. Her video on media literacy, Tuning in to Media, received a Parent’s Choice Award and her curriculum on analyzing the documentary genre, KNOW TV, received the Golden Cable ACE Award in 1994. Hobbs co-authored the first secondary language arts textbook to incorporate media literacy concepts and activities, Elements of Language (Holt, Rinehart, Winston, 2000). She has published articles in scholarly and professional publications and has created videotapes, teacher guides, lesson plans and curriculum materials about integrating media literacy into K-12 instruction. Her research assessing the impact of media literacy on the development of reading comprehension and critical thinking skills has been published in Reading Research Quarterly. She is a co-founder of the National Association for Media Literacy Education (NAMLE), the national membership organization that hosts the National Media Education Conference.
