Erin M. McCloskey, Madison (United States)_________ Foreign language ability, global awareness, and intercultural communication skills are increasingly recognized as essential dimensions of productive participation in the emerging economic, civic, political and social arenas of the 21st century. Consequently, these skills are being promoted more intentionally than ever across the spectrum of K16 education. This newly […]
BEYOND THE GUTENBERG PARENTHESIS: EXPLORING NEW PARADIGMS IN MEDIA AND LEARNING
Robert F. Kenny Department of Digital Media, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA ————————- There are those who agree with Tom Pettitt that we are entering into a period where text based literacy is no longer the only measure of intelligence, nor is it the only form of valuable communications and knowledge acquisition for […]
Modern Media Makers (M3) Archive: Project Philly 2011
The 2011 student productions, a meta documentary on the experience, Q&A footage, and bonus behind-the-scenes clips, and an excerpt of their conversation with Mohammed Bilal. What happens when you take 16 teenagers from all over the country, put them into a small, hot room, give them video cameras and set them loose in the streets […]
The Other Side of Media Literacy Education: Possible Selves, Social Capital, and Positive Youth Development
Voices from the Field selection discusses the development of positive selves and social capital among participants in a media literacy program.
One Laptop per Child Birmingham: Case Study of a Radical Experiment
The One Laptop per Child (OLPC) program is one of the most ambitious educational reform initiatives the world has ever seen. The program has developed a radically new low-cost laptop computer and aggressively promoted its plans to put the computer in the hands of hundreds of millions of children around the world, focusing on those […]
Kids Closer Up: Playing, Learning, and Growing with Digital Media
Paper from Lori Takeuchi, Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop Until now, adolescents have received most of the at- tention as far as video game, Internet, and cell phone use are concerned, from both the press and the re- search community. But digital engagement begins well before adolescence. When and where are chil- dren […]
PLAY! PARTICIPATORY CULTURE
Central to the dynamic and fluid nature of participatory learning is the concept of a participatory culture. Digitally mediated practices make visible the negotiated and co-constructive nature of students’ learning ecologies. Youth, and adults alike, are becoming authors and developing videos with circulation on YouTube, writing blogs and recording their experiences in LiveJournal, writing fan […]
New Media Literacies Blog
One of our key goals is to stop focusing quite so much on “do kids have computers in their classroom?” and start focusing more on “do kids have the basic social skills and cultural competencies so that when they do get computers in their classroom, they can participate fully?” Many educators assume that (1) students […]
TISCAR, Vídeo New Media Literacies (english)
Video New Media Literacies project synthesizes digital literacy skills Henry Jenkins proposed in the report Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century
Highest Common Denominator
Highest Common Denominator Media Group is convinced that a growing market for more enlightened, smarter media exists. We believe that society is calling out for stories that define us not as enemies but as humans, that celebrate our universal sacred values – those values that unite all of humanity – and that given the increasingly […]
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