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Renee Hobbs

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Renee Hobbs is a professor at Temple University’s School of Communications and Theater, where she founded the Media Education Lab. She is the author of “Digital and Media Literacy: Connecting Culture and Classroom,” published in 2011 by Corwin/Sage. She can be reached at renee.hobbs@temple.edu.

News Literacy: What Not to Do

RELATED ARTICLES“Connecting Kids With News in Their Community”“Media Literacy: Learning Principles”– Renee HobbsThree instructional practices that are emerging in news literacy deserve closer scrutiny:Dumbing It Down: Some educators and news…

Media Literacy: Learning Principles

Teachers in the Powerful Voices for Kids program helped students evaluate and create messages in a variety of media. Photo by Renee Hobbs.RELATED ARTICLES“Connecting Kids With News in Their Community”“…

Connecting Kids With News in Their Community

Youngsters made video games, and educators found that ‘hands-on activity helped kids to process news reporting. It also gave them ways to tell this story by integrating their perspectives as…