When integrated into the elementary curriculum, digital and media literacy addresses some of the very real challenges of contemporary education. Many children are disillusioned with school by the time they reach Grade 3 and negative attitudes about school and learning often intensify during Grades 4 – 6 when students form beliefs and attitudes about school, […]
Teaching Writing, Teaching Media
For many years, the Media Education Foundation (MEF) has put out videos and DVDs to help people understand the social impact of mass media on our culture. MEF is especially committed to helping young people critically analyze sitcoms, sports broadcasts, advertisements, news programs, and other media products. Where commercial media tend to lead young people […]
Media education and literacy in Latin America
This paper discusses discourses on media literacy and the state of the art in media education in Latin America paying special attention to the contextual factors that have helped to shape such discourses and educational practices. Understanding this general context is essential because it frames and conditions the effective use and critical appropriation of digital […]
Bringing the World to School: Integrating News and Media Literacy in Elementary Classrooms
For three years, the Powerful Voices for Kids program, a university-school partnership program of the Media Education Lab at the University of Rhode Island, developed a multifaceted approach to integrate news and current events into in-school and after-school instruction in K-6 schools. Three case studies detailing the program’s impact on an undergraduate novice instructor, an […]
Media Literacy: Education for a Technological Age
Media literacy has come of age. In a society as mass mediated and media saturated as our own, communication technologies are at the core of the political, economic and cultural environments. This article goes over and reflects upon the following issues regarding media literacy: – How many of us – or our students – are […]
A Situated Sociocultural Approach to Literacy and Technology
In this paper, James Paul Gee first sketches out the background to the approach he takes to literacy and technology—a “situated-sociocultural” approach. By this term he means a blend of themes from work on situated cognition dealing with mind and learning and work on sociocultural approaches to language, literacy, and technology. He sketches out this […]
Deep Learning Properties of Good Digital Games How Far Can They Go?
In earlier work, James Paul Gee argued that good commercial digital games provide players with good learning. By good learning he meant learning that is guided by and organized by principles empirically confirmed by systematic research on effective and deep learning in the learning sciences. Digital games are, at their heart, problem solving spaces that […]
Digital Media and Learning: A Prospective Retrospective
The MacArthur Foundation released an important report on “connected learning” (Ito, Mizuko, Kris Gutiérrez, Sonia Livingstone, Bill Penuel, Jean Rhodes, Katie Salen, Juliet Schor, Julian Sefton-Green, S. Craig Watkins. 2013. Connected Learning: An Agenda for Research and Design. Irvine, CA: Digital Media and Learning Research Hub). This report represents the culmination of years of work […]
Edmadison.com: multimedia journalism and mobile media
The following resource is a website administrated by Ed Madison, an american journalist, teacher and entrepreneur. Madison teaches multimedia journalism, digital publishing, and media entrepreneurship at the School of Journalism and Communication at the University of Oregon, where he is an assistant professor. He was also a founding producer for CNN and his own companies […]
Dilemmas + Decisions Project
This resource introduces Dilemmas + Decisions (D+D), an educational process developed at the National Center for the Preservation of Democracy in Los Angeles. Dilemmas + Decisions (D+D) is a Youth Media project that presents real-life issues related to democracy and freedom as experienced and conceived by high school-aged media groups from across the nation. Together, […]
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