The School of Emerging Media & Technology’s mission is to connect the world’s greatest leaders in social media with professionals whose daily jobs and activities require a basic-to-advanced understanding of the tools, technologies and best practices that are driving change in industry.
The Role of Media in Elections: Helping Students Understand Media’s Influence
This website is devoted primarily to the 30-second campaign “spot;” so common in American elections. The site is designed to provide teachers with the tools they need to introduce political campaign advertising to their students. Another goal is to assist teachers who want to help their students become aware of the unique techniques of persuasion […]
Network to Learn, Collaborate to Innovate
Online communities and learning networks are helping hundreds of thousands of educators learn, reducing isolation and providing “just in time” access to knowledge and opportunities for collaboration. However, many educators are not yet participating and others aren’t realizing the full benefits. In many cases, schools, districts, and states also are not recognizing and rewarding this […]
Media Literacy and Its Use as a Method to Encourage Civic Engagement
Media Literacy and Its Use as a Method to Encourage Civic Engagement
Society’s Storyteller: How TV Creates the Myths by which we Live
Storytelling is the great process that makes us recognizably human. A story is an attempt to make the invisible visible — it has to do with relationships, with intellectual connections. We have to have some device to make the visible, dramatic, revealing and embodied in human beings whose characteristics we know and whose actions we […]
Hacker Literacies: Synthesizing Critical and Participatory Media Literacy Frameworks
Technology use is increasingly characterized by both critical mindsets and participatory practices. Yet, our current media literacy frameworks, critical media literacy and participatory media literacy, fail to account for and understand the nature of these practices because they are happening in situ. Arguing that these frameworks might be synthesized to understand emergent online practices, this […]
The Civic Tripod for Mobile and Games: Activism, Art and Learning
Mobile games are quickly appearing in many dimensions of our lived environment, but few go beyond the small screen. Mobile games that are particularly innovative or locative are often low-profile, focusing on art, or civics at the neighborhood level. The big picture for such games has been hard to see. This report addresses the mobile […]
Is Social Media Making us Socially Awkward?
A visual on social media and contemporary societies
Navigating the Children’s Media Landscape: A Parent’s and Caregiver’s Guide
Written by the American Institutes for Research for Cable in the Classroom and National PTA, this important report offers: (1) A guide to help families develop a comprehensive media plan that allows them to take greater control of their TV viewing, Internet and other media activities; (2) A media “how-to” chart to support age appropriate […]
Action Coalition for Media Education (ACME)
The Action Coalition for Media Education (ACME) is an emerging global coalition run by and for media educators, a network dedicated to teaching media education workshops and institutes, and organizing summits to encourage the sharing of “best practices” – knowledge, skills, and activism – among media educators. ACME also develops and distributes media education curricula […]
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