Abstract
In 2021, Ithaca College’s Project Look Sharp conducted a pilot project to demonstrate that school librarians were in a unique position to provide media literacy instruction and function as building and district leaders to mentor teachers in media literacy integration. The initiative taught librarians to use constructivist media decoding (CMD) – an inquiry-based, curriculum driven approach to media analysis and production. This article, informed by the evaluation of that effort, offers a qualitative view from three elementary school librarians who were part of the pilot cohort. They describe how they implemented CMD in ways that can be duplicated by other educators and also, importantly, how their experience using an inquiry-based method transformed their teaching.
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Recommended Citation
Rogow, F., Crossman, B., Coolbeth, M., & Balk, J. (2025). Constructivist media decoding in elementary school: Media literacy instruction across a school year. Journal of Media Literacy Education, 17(2), 125-139. https://doi.org/10.23860/JMLE-2025-17-2-9
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