COD 2024 - D1061

Media Literacy: A Must in Today's Classrooms

Primary and Secondaru School Heads, Coordinators and Teachers

4 sessions, start: 04-Nov

Course detail

Year: 2024
Level: Distance
Language: English
Status: Postponed
Lugar: Distance
Facilitator/s: Ms. Luciana Fernández
Print course
ESSARP Schools
Free of charge
Exams Schools
ARS 60000.00
Non affiliate
ARS 60000.00

Sessions

Sessions Dates Schedule
1 04 November - 10 November 2024 Online session
2 11 November - 17 November 2024 Online session
3 18 November - 24 November 2024 Online session
4 25 November - 01 December 2024 Online session

Facilitator/s

Luciana Fernández

Luciana Fernández is a graduate teacher of English who has been teaching English for the past twenty-nine years. She has specialized in Methodology and Teaching Practice and she holds a Diploma in Educational Research from the University of Cambridge, Faculty of Education. She holds two post graduate certifications in Thinking Cultures and Teaching for Comprehension

She is a Reading and Literacy expert and has been training teachers in this area for the past fifteen years. She is a teacher educator and has designed several presentations and courses for professional development both in Argentina and abroad. Her presentation at ARTESOL 2015 was selected to be presented at TESOL International as a Best Affiliate Session. She is one of the 50 scholarship winners who attended and presented at IATEFL, held in Birmingham in April 2016. She was later on invited to be a presenter at the Young Learners and Teenagers SIG pre conference event and at the main conference.

Luciana has been the Head at several bilingual IB institutions in Buenos Aires. At present she is a school advisor, teacher trainer and facilitator at ESSARP (English Speaking Scholastic Association of the River Plate), where she trains heads and teachers from the most important bilingual institutions in Argentina.
Primary and Secondaru School Heads, Coordinators and Teachers
Get participants to:
Understand what media literacy is and why it is a critical skill to develop.
Explore the impact of enhancing critical thinking.
Explore, define, compare and contrast critical thinking and media literacy.
Understand why it is important to teach media literacy and critical thinking.
Explore tasks and strategies to teach, practice and develop critical thinking and media literacy skills.
Understand how to assess critical thinking and media literacy skills.
Media Literacy
Critical Thinking
Media Literacy Subskills
Critical Thinking Subskills
Media Literacy and Critical Thinking Skills Assessment
In this distance course participants will:
. read material
. watch videos
. participate in forum discussions
. explore activities and resources
To be specified.
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