This paper attempts to explore the factors that have influenced the educational policy landscape during the past decade. Using a two-stage survey methodology, the authors of the study asked leading education-policy experts first to identify and then to rate highly influential agents or “Influentials” across four different categories – Studies, Organizations, People, and Information Sources. […]
Growing Up Online (program)
Growing Up Online, the FRONTLINE program, takes viewers inside the very public private worlds that kids are creating online, raising important questions about how the Internet is transforming childhood. “The Internet and the digital world was something that belonged to adults, and now it’s something that really is the province of teenagers, ” says C.J. […]
Growing Up Online (teaching guide)
The film Growing Up Online is part of the teaching guide created by FRONTLINE, the PBS program. FRONTLINE takes viewers inside the private worlds that kids are creating online, raising important questions about how the Internet is transforming the experience of adolescence. At school, teachers are trying to figure out how to reach a generation […]
Technology drives change. How does social innovation drive technology?
“ICT for the sake of ICT is a waste of precious resources. We are delighted to have worked with partners like Ashoka who understand the deep value that ICT can bring to social change when it is offered in context, with appropriate training, and with the intent of empowering the user. We hope this report […]
Media Literacy & the Emerging Citizen: Youth, Engagement and Participation in Digital Culture
Media Literacy and the Emerging Citizen is about enhancing engagement in a digital media culture and the models that educators, parents and policy makers can utilize to place media-savvy youth into positions of purpose, responsibility and power. Two specific challenges are at the core of this book’s argument that media literacy is the path toward […]
Reflection on News Literacy
Home Unfettered criticism of news and media literacy education is essential in the search for best practices A new piece in Columbia Journalism Review entitled News Literacy vs Media Literacy sets up an us-vs-them paradigm to position news literacy as fundamentally distinct from media literacy. Jihii Jolly, the reporter, even wonders why I was invited […]
News literacy vs. media literacy
Three years ago, pioneer media literacy scholar Renee Hobbs published a short critique of what she viewed as troubling trends emerging in news literacy education. She argued on the site Nieman Reports against teaching news literacy in a way that romanticizes the industry or merely transforms a Journalism 101 class into a news literacy one, […]
Can news literacy grow up?
After a decade, the movement tries to prove its worth – In 2005, as Howard Schneider was developing a plan for Stony Brook University’s new journalism school, he taught a course called Ethics & Values of the American Press as a way to get to know the students. He was shocked to discover that about […]
Beware of online “filter bubbles”
As web companies strive to tailor their services (including news and search results) to our personal tastes, there’s a dangerous unintended consequence: We get trapped in a “filter bubble” and don’t get exposed to information that could challenge or broaden our worldview. Eli Pariser argues powerfully that this will ultimately prove to be bad for […]
The Internet’s Original Sin
Ron Carlson’s short story “What We Wanted To Do” takes the form of an apology from a villager who failed to protect his comrades from marauding Visigoths. It begins: What we wanted to do was spill boiling oil onto the heads of our enemies as they attempted to bang down the gates of our village. […]
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