Selected Articles

Faith’s Blog

“Start with Wonder, Then Add Inquiry: Developing Young Children’s Media Literacy Competencies” in Teaching Young Children 15:3 (Winter 2022)

“5 Ways to Celebrate Media Literacy Week with 5-and-Unders” A NAEYC Blog post (21 Oct 2020)

Why Counting Screen Time Minutes isn’t an Education Strategy A 2013 Fred Rogers Center blog post explaining that media literacy emphasizes skills and education strategies rather than clock management.

“Ask: Don’t Tell: Pedagogy for Media Literacy in the Next Decade” in the Journal for Media Literacy Education 3:1 (2011) A reflection on the ten-year anniversary of the National Association for Media Literacy Education looking at where we’ve been and where we should go.

“Inquiring Minds Want to Know: Media Literacy Education for Young Children” in Library Media Connection (Jan/Feb 2011) Making the case that school library media specialists deserve a new title: Chief Inquiry Officer.

“Media Matters” A 2010 Mother Company blog post explaining how parents can make sense of contradictory claims about media effects and children.

“Teaching Media Literacy in Less Than an Hour” in the Journal of Media Literacy Education 1:1 A 2009 reflection for the inaugural issue of the JMLE reviewing how NAMLE’s Core Principles were crafted to shift the focus of the field’s debates from “what we believe to be true about media to what we believe to be true about how people learn to think critically.”

“Terrain in Transition: Reflections on the Pedagogy of Media Literacy Education” in Media Literacy: Transforming Curriculum and Teaching (National Society for the Study of Education Yearbook, January 2005) Explores the difference between being critical of media and teaching students to think critically.

Shifting from Media to Literacy: The Challenges of Media Literacy Education in American Behavioral Science (Summer 2004) Explains why media literacy isn’t about getting students to shut off their devices: In education, a game of “keep away” will never lead to success.

“Patience is Virtue When You’ve Got What You Want: Excerpts from Opening Remarks at the National Media Education Conference,” Baltimore, June 2003 in Telemedium (Summer 2004) “You can’t have democracy without media, but if citizens don’t have the skills to make media and think critically about it, they cannot preserve democracy.”

“The ABCs of Media Literacy: What Can Preschoolers Learn?” in Telemedium (Spring 2002) How do we teach sophistical media literacy skills like analysis to children who have barely graduated from drinking out of a sippy cup?

Reviews

Rogow, F. (2019). Review: Crash Course in Media Literacy. Journal of Media Literacy Education, 11(1), 120-126. https://doi.org/10.23860/JMLE-2019-11-1-7

See reviews on Amazon by the Media Literacy Education Maven (aka, Faith Rogow) for these books:

Frank Baker’s Media Literacy in the K-12 Classroom

David Buckingham’s The Material Child

Warren Buckleitner’s Guide to Using Tablets with Young Children

Vanessa Domine (Greenwood)’s Rethinking Technology in Schools

Steve Goodman’s Teaching Youth Media

Lisa Guernsey & Michael Levine’s Tap, Click, Read

Melissa Hart’s Media Literacy – Grades 7-8

Renee Hobbs’ Digital snd Media Literacy

Renee Hobbs’ Exploring the Roots of Digital and Media Literacy Through Personal Narrative

Renee Hobbs & David Cooper Moore’s Discovering Media Literacy

Diane Levin’s Beyond Remote Controlled-Childhood