Books. Media and information literacy

Last updated on 12 May 2026

I have just read the book – Media and Information Education Pedagogical Kit the Generation 5 Editions. I recommend it to you.

Understand, criticize, create in the digital world. This is the watchword for this impressive work by four documentalist professors, Aline Bousquet, Marion Carbillet, Hélène Mulot and Marie Nallathamby. This kit is in the form of a thick workbook with more than 200 removable sheets, supplemented by a CD-ROM containing the content in digital format and an associated website.

The book is aimed at teachers-documentalists in middle schools who will find the essential teaching resources to discuss with students the various topics related to Media Education and NDE Information. A major challenge if it is in our digital age to train future citizens who are ‘consumers’ of information.

The Generation5 Media and Information Education Pedagogical Kit focuses on: tools and concrete cases to discuss with students these different themes. But make no mistake that the aim of multiple authors raises substantive issues. How to manage between private and public? How to teach students, whose digital practice is often empirical, to understand, be critical and create?

The Kit offers 34 sessions to do with your students which are all between 30 minutes and 1 hour. Three main themes were discussed:

• Know and understand the Internet and the Web.

• Get informed (read) and inform (write) on the web.

• Participate, protect, share: societal choices?

For each session you will find: a student card available in digital format on the Roma CD and in paper. Documents for the teacher, including a guide sheet describing the course of the session, objectives, means and corrections.

The sheets are independent pedagogically from each other but can also be part of a progression by school level. Moreover, the book offers you an ideal route by school level.

Generation5 did it right. The model is particularly clear and airy. Important points are easily identifiable through colored icons and backgrounds. What is also striking when reading these different sequences is the realistic objective of each of them. The authors indicate that they tested them with students. This can be seen and is appreciable.

Undoubtedly good work and a tool that should feature in all colleges at a time when school entry into the digital age is a national priority. Beyond the speeches of intent, here is a concrete tool to accompany the teachers of the college.

You can buy it on the Generation 5 website at the price of 89 Eur
Link: Media and information literacy 

Content:
– a 220-page binder (teaching guide and worksheets),
– a CD-ROM (digital sheets and working documents),
– an accompanying website.

The product can be used by all teachers in the school and at home.
Cards and documents may be freely photocopied or duplicated within the establishment.
ISBN No: 978-2-36246-052-4