Making Curriculum Pop: Developing Literacies in All Content Areas

From body art to baseball cards, comics to cathedrals, pie charts to power ballads . . . students need help navigating today’s media-rich world. And educators need help teaching today’s new media literacy. To be literate now means being able to read, write, listen, speak, view, and represent across all media—including both print and nonprint texts, such as film, TV, podcasts, websites, visual art, fashion, architecture, landscape, and music. This book offers secondary teachers in all content areas a flexible, interdisciplinary approach to integrate these literacies into their curriculum. Students form cooperative learning groups to evaluate media texts from various perspectives (artist, producer, sociologist, sound mixer, economist, poet, set designer, and more) and show their thinking using unique graphic organizers aligned to the Common Core State Standards

Pam Goble, Ed.D., has been a middle school teacher for over 30 years and has taught education and literature courses as an adjunct professor for the past 15 years. She has presented at numerous conferences, such as NCTE and AMLE, and published in Journal of Staff Development.  Pam specializes in interdisciplinary learning, gifted education, curriculum and instruction, leadership, literacy, humanities, and adult education. She lives in Chicago.
 
Ryan R. Goble, M.A., is the teaching and learning coordinator at Glenbard High School and has worked as an adjunct professor in the education departments of multiple universities. Formerly a classroom teacher, he trains educators in curriculum design, student-centered learning, and new media in classes and workshops around the country. He has collaborated extensively with NASA on climate change curriculum and his work has been featured in Teacher Magazine, The Journal of Staff Development, The Boston Globe, The New York Times Learning Network, and elsewhere. He also shares many exciting resources with teachers through his online social network Making Curriculum Pop. Ryan is completing his doctoral dissertation at Teachers College Columbia University and lives in Chicago.
 
NCTE (Editor) The National Council of Teachers of English is devoted to improving the teaching and learning of English and the language arts at all levels of education.