Chamisa Mesa High School

Media Literacy

The following articles on Media Literacy form a very essential part of the Media Literacy Program at CMHS. Throughout the school year we use film as part of the curriculum as well as film making and our students are made aware of how the Media manipulate our culture through advertising, the news, and prgramming, as well as all of the print media.
We are very fortunate to be living in Taos and through the aupices of the Taos Talking Picture Festival we are able to participate in the Taos Talking Picture Media Literacy Conference held every April here in Taos. The Taos Talking Picture Festival works closely with the New Mexico Medial Literacy Project.
  • Ten Media Literacy Strategies

    • by Kathleen Tyner
    It's not enough, in this age of technology, to simply know how to read books-we have to know how to read new forms of electronic media, too. Media literacy is not so different from the traditional print literacy that parents already value.
  • What is Comprehensive Media Education?

    • By: Diedra Downs, Executive Director, Downs Media Education Center, Santa Fe, NM
    Comprehensive media education is the most exciting trend in school reform today. It leads our children, and eventually our society, to become media literate. Media literacy is defined as the ability to access, analyze, evaluate and produce information through a variety of mass media forms.
  • An Overview Inquiring Minds Want to Know: What is Media Literacy?

    • The Japanese call it johoshakai, the Age of Information, and if the soothsayers are correct, it will change the world of the future as surely as railroads transformed society in the nineteenth century.
  • Safeguarding our Youth: Violence Prevention for Our Nations's Children

    • Convened by The Department of Justice/Janet Reno, Attorney General The Department of Education/Richard W. Riley, Secretary The Department of Health and Human Services/Donna Shalala, Secretary July 20-21, 1993/Washington, D.C.
  • The Mind Age

    • The Age of Information is over and the Mind Age has begun. It came upon us rapidly, more rapidly than the Industrial Age, or even the Space Age. And it may take the media a few more years to recognize that the Mind Age had arrived.
  • Rethinking the Message

    • Students Practice Responsibility in Filmmaking
  • WHAT'S NEXT FOR NEW MEXICO

    • Albuquerque Academy is pleased to be able to help expand media literacy in New Mexico and give the state pilot project a home for the next year.
  • On The National Front

    • Education can no longer be confined to the classroom. Real education happens every day to every person of every age. It happens on the board stage of the information highway.
  • Video in the Classroom: A Tool for Reform

    • Technology and school reform are two high-profile educational bandwagons that promise to improve education in the United States. They travel divergent paths, and evidence is spotty that either has made significant progress in informing the moribund education system
  • Computers Give with One Hand and...

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