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From BOONE to BALTIMORE. The Alliance for a Media Literate America [formerly The Partnership for Media Education] has announced that Dr. David Considine will serve as chairperson for the 2003 national conference scheduled to be held in the Baltimore area. Considine, who coordinates the graduate program in media literacy at Appalachian State University, chaired the first national media literacy conference which was held on the Boone campus in September 1995. The theme for the 2003 conference will be Rights, Roles and Responsibilities in the Media Age. Dr. Considine says he is excited and honored by the appointment. "It gives us an opportunity to continue building the big tent", he said. "While there is a fairly constant focus on both media and protectionism within the U.S. media literacy movement, I think we need to be more balanced and do more to address the connection to a range of literacies. Media Literacy also needs to make a compelling case for its inclusion within civics and social studies. I believe it can make a major contribution to our democratic society and to our entire understanding of informed and responsible citizenship". **If you have any suggestions
regarding the conference including topics, recommended
speakers, location, field trips, etc., please contact
David
Considine. |
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From left to right, teaching on the Boone campus, 'Unmasking the Media' workshop for youth in California, family time with grandson,Wyett David Considine.
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David Considine was born and educated in Melbourne, Australia. He undertook one of that nation's first Media Education degrees and was a pioneer of media literacy at the high school level before moving to the U.S. He has a Masters of Library Science from the University of North Carolina Greensboro and a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His doctoral dissertation addressed "Mass Media and Adolescent Sexuality". His books include The Cinema of Adolescence, Visual Messages: Integrating Imagery Into Instruction and Imagine That: Developing Critical Viewing and Critical Thinking Through Children's Literature. Husband, father and grandfather he locates his approach to media literacy within the family as well as in the classroom. Dr. Considine is featured in several educational video tapes including The Glitter: Sex, Drugs and the Media; Media Literacy: The New Basic ? and Court TV's, Mind Over Media: Helping Kids Get the Message. |
Dr. Considine's workshops and lecture series for children, teens, parents, teachers, administrators, librarians and civic leaders give him an opportunity to visit schools and communities across the country, where he specializes in an interdisciplinary approach to media literacy, challenging audiences to start in their own homes by "putting the ME in MEdia". In 2001 he developed a middle grades media literacy curriculum for the North Carolina Governor's Institute on Alcohol and Substance Abuse. The same year he was invited back to the White House by the Office of National Drug Control Policy, as part of a meeting linking media literacy and substance abuse with faith based organizations. The ONDCP invited him to present his approach to media literacy in Mexico City as part of the U.S.-Mexico Bi-national Drug Demand Reduction Conference. |
At right, family time in mountains of Steamboat Springs.
Media Literacy: An Introduction to Media Literacy by Dr. David Considine
Media Literacy: First National Media Literacy Conference at ASU
Media Literacy: Summit 2000: Reflections on Toronto Conference
