The 8th annual Northeast Media Literacy Conference

Friday, March 26, 2010
The Bishop Center - University of Connecticut - Storrs, Connecticut

Media Literacy: The Critical 21st Century Skill

The expanding media literacy movement has helped children and youth to become more media literate for many years now, with a major emphasis upon skill in accessing, analyzing, and evaluating the many complex messages presented through the mass media, particularly through television and advertising in their many forms and formats.

The rapid spread of new technology devices has also had a great impact upon the types and extent of mass media exposure and media use in today’s youth culture, including cell phones, ipods, voice and text messaging, blogs, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, video games, etc.

In our eighth annual Northeast Media Literacy Conference, a major focus will be on media literacy as the critical 21st century skill and the growing need to help young people to develop critical thinking skills in understanding and interpreting the ubiquitous media world and its impact upon the changing youth culture – in terms of its use of time, thinking, priorities, decisions, actions, and values – and the implications for possible changes in our media literacy efforts in our schools and youth-oriented organizations.

We are pleased to announce our two timely, innovative keynote speakers: Dr. Susan Linn, author, and Director of the highly successful, activist Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, and Frank Baker, author, and internationally known media literacy leader and creator of the valuable online resource, the Media Literacy Clearinghouse.

We hope you will join us for this annual conference, following up on and hopefully enhancing our seven previous highly successful meetings – Friday, March 26, 2010.

For more information, please contact:

Dr. Thomas B. Goodkind, Coordinator
Northeast Media Literacy Conference
Neag School of Education
249 Glenbrook Road, U-2033
Storrs, Connecticut 06269-2033
Tel. (860) 486-0290 / Fax (860) 486-0280
Email: t.goodkind@uconn.edu