Hobbs Reading

In chapter 3 titled "Storytelling Structures, Close Reading, and Point of View," Hobbs tells about various ways in which media literacy can be applied into the classroom curriculum. Here are the points I would like to present that interested me:

Using the library to research free topics
gets to the student's level and allows them to make choices
gives students researching experience and helps built researching skills
students use analysis, synthesis, and reflection skills in order to design their assignment based on their topic
inspires students to become active agents in topics around them and in their own work

Show how the media constructs information to a certain ideology using television shows/news series
makes the students question their role as an observer: do they fall victim to the media or can they judge for themselves why/how the media portrays something in a certain way?

Reading an image to show authorial motivations
showsstudents implicit and explicit purposes for creating an image a certain way
literally "READING THE MEDIA"
shows how tone is used

Making a movie to relate to As I Lay Dying
takes student's prior knowledge and brings in new knowledge
students use bloom's taxonomic higher level thinking (analysis, synthesis, reflection)
gives students an opportunity to experience a technical aspect of text
students improve technical skills (ie movie making)