Lynda Bergsma, Professor, University of Arizona

Lynda Bergsma was recognized for her 17-year body of work, in which she uses media literacy education as a health promotion strategy for children, youth and families. Through Bergsma’s projects, teaching, research, writing, speaking and leadership, thousands of people across the United States and worldwide have learned to make healthy decisions in a media-saturated culture. In this podcast (MP3, 13 MB), Bergsma discusses the importance of implementing media literacy education into curriculum. She notes that students today are bombarded with various types of media and they must be taught how to properly analyze and understand what they are consuming.

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Lynda Bergsma, Professor, University of Arizona is an episode from Cable's Leaders in Learning: In Their Own Words by Cable in the Classroom (www.ciconline.org).

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This episode was published on Jul 1, 2009.

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