Common Approaches for Media Education and Educational Reform

• Student-Centered Learning
• Inquiry-Based Education
• Experiential [“hands-on” & Multiple Intelligences]
• Democratic Classrooms
• Alternative Testing Strategies [Portfolios]
• Cooperative Learning

Alaska Project-Based Learning Expert Helena Fagan Insists That Good Projects Are Designed "Backward"—That Is, What Do We Want Kids To Know When They're Done?

Protectionist Assumptions

• Popular Culture is Inferior to Fine Arts
• Popular Culture Directly Causes Anti-Social Behavior
• Audiences Have Little Control or Power Over Media
• Americans Prefer the Classics if Only They Were Exposed
• Commercialism is Always Bad

Underlying Attitudes

• Moral Panic: Political Right
• Plug-in-Drug: Liberal
• Totalitarian Monster: Political Left