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Tuesday, 15 April 2008 |
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by EDWARD SZTUKOWSKI
Intern News Reporter
The Cable’s Leaders in Learning Awards nominated Dr. David Considine for its Media Literacy Award this year.
The award is given to teachers who have provided excellent service in teaching youth to access, understand, evaluate, and create media messages on television, the Internet and other outlets.
Considine is one of four teachers nominated throughout the country. The award will be given in Washington, D.C., June 18. The winner will be given a prize of $3,000.
Cable in the Classroom is the cable industry’s national education foundation, and has hosted the award
ceremony for four years.
Considine has worked at Appalachian State University for 26 years as a media literacy professor.
Considine convened the first National Media Literacy conference in 1995 in Boone.
Considine also wrote one of the first textbooks on media literacy called “Visual Messages: Integrating
Imagery into Instruction.”
He worked as a media literacy consultant with White House officials on the National Drug Control
Policy, including officials in the Clinton and Bush administrations.
To be nominated for the award, nominees must submit several programs they have worked on to show
their experience in the field.
“I submitted two electronic Web sites that I developed,” Considine said. “One was the Web site for the
media literacy program at Appalachian State; the other was my personal Web site.”
The goal of the media literacy program is to give students the ability to apply critical thinking skills to
different kinds of media.
“Kids today are bombarded with so much media at once that they rarely take the time to think about
what they are absorbing,” Considine said.
The media literacy graduate program at Appalachian State was the nation’s first, and has become a
model for the rest of the nation to follow.
Considine is also running a workshop for teachers over the summer called Democracy, Diversity and
the Media. The workshop is a national workshop that focuses on teaching teachers to use media in
their classrooms.
“In today’s world, teenagers, especially American teenagers, get their media through visual
representation,” Considine said. “My goal is to show teachers how to use visual media in classrooms,
because kids today don’t pay as much attention to textbooks.”
Considine’s workshops have been presented in 38 states and four countries and institutions, including
Harvard University and the U.S. Department of Education.
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