mark lipton

Research, Scholarly and Creative Work: A Selected Sample

(1) Media Education

Media Education Project is a collaborative effort of Canadian educators. This monograph series is a collectively authored document that incorporates the ideas and activities of a varied and diverse group. By talking with many stakeholders, one of our goals is to exchange and mobilize knowledge about research, curriculum, and pedagogical approaches for insertion into teacher education, professional support, and professional development programs. Through the constant back and forth among the vast number of teachers, researchers, and other educators, we have developed this series of monographs to address critical issues in media education. By building on the experiences and practices of teachers these monographs provide a clear and conceptual framework of issues that emerge from both everyday teaching practices and current media education research.

The intention is to encourage further discussion—to get more people to talk about teaching and learning. Many of the ideas presented here will not be new for experienced teachers. In fact, many teachers are already doing media education on a regular basis. These monographs make explicit that media education approaches emerge from research-based practices, from programs that work, and from everyday classroom experiences. Please share these monographs to instigate further discussion about curriculum and pedagogy, teaching and learning. While there are several excellent, free resources available for any teacher, the goals in this monograph series are to frame some of the larger conceptual and theoretical issues in the practice of teaching media. These highlight the importance of (1) integration, (2) metacognition, (3) creativity, and (4) assessment.

• Media Education: Integration. Canadian Teachers’ Federation, Media Awareness Network. Toronto, 2008.
• Media Education: Metacognition. Canadian Teachers’ Federation, Media Awareness Network. Toronto, 2008.
• Media Education: Creativity. Canadian Teachers’ Federation, Media Awareness Network. Toronto, 2008.
• Media Education: Assessment. Canadian Teachers’ Federation, Media Awareness Network. Toronto, 2008.
• “Testing Media Literacy: Observations about Copyright for Canadian Media Educators.” Orbit: Journal of Education. Ed. K. Dehli, Vol. 35, No. 2, 2005.

(Also see Lipton’s current public presentations about Media Literacy available on the social web at <prezi.com> under the username <marklipton>.)

• “Queer Readings of Popular Culture: Searching [To] Out The Subtext,” in  Queer Youth Cultures: Performative and Political Practices. Ed. S. Driver. New York: State University of New York Press, 2008.
• “Queer Comes the Bride.” Canadian Journal of Communication. 31 (2006): 937-945.

• “The Politics of the Tobacco Industry-Sponsored Curriculum Wise Decisions: A Guide to Smoking Prevention.” Research report for the OMA and Ontario Campaign for Action on Tobacco. 2004.
• Smoke Screens: From Tobacco Outrage to Media Activism, with M. Dewing and Children’s Media Project. B. Clemens, designer. Children’s Health Initiative, NY State Dutchess County Executive’s Office, W. Steinhause, 2002.
• Smoke Screens: A Teacher’s Guide, edited by Mark Lipton. Children’s Media Project. Children’s Health Initiative, NY State County Executive’s Office, W. Steinhause, 2002.
• Smoke Screens: Tobacco Use Prevention Media Education — a student workbook, with Sarah Bramley, Penny Lane, and Children’s Media Project. I. Paige, designer. Children’s Health Initiative, NY State Dutchess County Executive’s Office, W. Steinhause, 2001.

Lipton’s  non-traditional, online publications (e.g., blog contributions, OERs, wiki resources) and related activities (e.g., microblogging) are both useful and relevant research & communication dissemination activities. I invite you to shadow, lurk or actively join any or all of my social networks. I’m easy to find on Facebook, Delicious, Twitter, Tumblr and other networks of social media activity.