Descriptor
Source
Social Education | 1 |
Author
Hepburn, Mary A. | 1 |
Publication Type
Guides - Classroom - Teacher | 2 |
Journal Articles | 1 |
Education Level
Audience
Practitioners | 2 |
Teachers | 2 |
Location
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
C-SPAN, Washington, DC. – 1999
This guide offers an overview of C-SPAN's programming and its outreach to educators. The guide is designed to support teachers and to offer ideas, resources, information, and special projects. Throughout the guide, detailed applications or "best practices" for using C-SPAN in the classroom are included. There are guides based on C-SPAN…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Critical Viewing, Mass Media Use, Political Issues

Hepburn, Mary A. – Social Education, 1997
Provides background information and learning activities for six areas of inquiry concerning media literacy and violence. These are (1) "Monitoring 'Action' in TV Cartoons"; (2) "To Market, To Market (Share)"; (3) "What's 'Educational' Anyway"; (4) "Rating the TV Rating System"; (5) "Nine Risks of TV Violence"; and (6) "Teenagers in the News." (MJP)
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Critical Viewing, Elementary Secondary Education, Journalism