The Center for Media Literacy (CML) is an educational organization that provides leadership, public education, professional development and educational resources in the United States. CML is dedicated to promoting, and supporting the use of media literacy education to access, analyze, evaluate and create media content. Accordingly, CML helps citizens, especially the young, develop critical thinking […]
The Information Diet
Healthy information consumption habits are about more than productivity and efficiency. They’re about your personal health, and the health of society. Just as junk food can lead to obesity, junk information can lead to new forms of ignorance. The Information Diet provides a framework for consuming information in a healthy way, by showing you what […]
6 tendencias y 3 predicciones para las Tecnologías Educativas
El Horizon Report es un informe que lanzan anualmente desde el New Media Consortium en colaboración con EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI). Se trata de un documento donde un grupo de expertos vislumbran las principales tendencias en temas de Tecnologías Educativas. El cómo se modifica el panorama educativo gracias a la tecnología interesa al mundo emprendedor […]
The Hunger Games: Life, Death and the Media
“The Hunger Games” opened this past weekend to record box office, as expected. The best-selling book continues its huge attraction, but now, on the big screen. By now, you’ve heard or read about the story: the annual televised games, in a post-apocalyptic world, a fight to the death involving two teenagers, Katniss Everdeen (actress Jennifer […]
An Educational Technology Bill of Rights Targets Censorship in Schools
Widespread public outrage over SOPA rallied Americans against the threat of internet censorship. But though the bill may be dead, there’s plenty of censorship happening every day in our nation’s public schools. Schools ban students from accessing websites from National Geographic to YouTube and Wikipedia, and all too often choose to confiscate smartphones and tablets […]
Why South Korea Is Putting the Brakes on the Switch to Digital Textbooks
Last summer, South Korea’s Education Ministry announced plans to replace hardback textbooks with electronic readers and digital editions by 2015, at a cost of $2.4 billion. But after South Korean educators expressed concerns about the potential negative effects of too much screen time, the government is putting the brakes on going fully digital
Can Computers Enable Students to Teach Themselves?
Sugata Mitra, Professor of Educational Technology at Newcastle University and visiting professor at M.I.T., talks about how his Hole in the Wall Experiment helped poor children in the slums of Hyderabad, India teach themselves English. Giving them access to tools like computers, Mitra showed that uneducated, non-English speaking children could work in small groups and […]
Youth Empowerment Project
The Youth Empowerment Project, a 501(c)3 nonprofit, was initiated in 1998 by teens to address the gaps of diversity and youth involvement in the service, civic engagement, philanthropy and decision-making life of their communities. All YEP projects reflect a commitment to investing in Youth-Powered Solutions™ and are driven by individual initiative, teamwork and youth-adult partnerships. […]
Five Key Questions That Can Change the World
Developed and written by: Elizabeth Thoman Founder and Tessa Jolls President / CEO The original version of this document is available in Spanish under the title: MediaLit Kit™ Orientation Guide_______ Since the beginning of recorded history, the concept of “literacy” meant having the skill to interpret “squiggles” on a piece of paper as letters which, […]
The Impact of Technology on Character Education
Tessa Jolls, President and CEO, Center for Media Literacy U.S. Department of Education, Character Education Symposium 2008 Today, the global online village is open 24/7. Prior to this global village emerging, the local village provided children with a daily filter – adults — through whom youth learned about values, lifestyles and points of view. Today, […]
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