The International Journal of Learning and Media (IJLM) provides a forum for scholars, researchers, and practitioners to examine the changing relationships between learning and media across a wide range of forms and settings. Our focus is particularly, but by no means exclusively, on young people, and we understand learning in broad terms to include informal […]
Enhancing Child Safety & Online Technologies: Final Report of the Internet Safety Technical Task Force
Many youth in the United States have fully integrated the Internet into their daily lives. For them, the Internet is a positive and powerful space for socializing, learning, and engaging in public life. Along with the positive aspects of Internet use come risks to safety, including the dangers of sexual solicitation, online harassment, and bullying, […]
Einstein, YouTube, and New Media Literacies in the Connected Age
DML Central is the online presence for the Digital Media and Learning Research Hub located at the systemwide University of California Humanities Research Institute and hosted at the UC Irvine campus. Digital media practices are fundamentally reshaping society in far-reaching ways, especially in how people all around the world are learning and connecting with one […]
DML Central
DML Central is the online presence for the Digital Media and Learning Research Hub located at the systemwide University of California Humanities Research Institute and hosted at the UC Irvine campus. Digital media practices are fundamentally reshaping society in far-reaching ways, especially in how people all around the world are learning and connecting with one […]
Young Audiences and New Authors in a Multimedia Landscape
Today’s children experience a very different set of choices, opportunities and challenges as compared to their parents or their grandparents. Of the 50 million American children age 11 and under, nearly all are participating actively as young audiences with a variety of forms of mass media, popular culture and digital media. They are also beginning […]
Connecting Kids With News in Their Community
Not unlike kids in past generations, children today tend to learn news of their neighborhood, the nation, and the world by absorbing information from parents and other family members. Few of them pick up a daily newspaper or weekly newsmagazine. Some will hear snippets of radio news in between songs. Some might even see local […]
Cultivating Intellectual Curiosity with Digital and Media Literacy
The use of popular culture, mass media, and digital tools for information-gathering and creative expression may cultivate and deepen the kind of intellectual curiosity that helps students become lifelong learners. Renee Hobbs is a Professor of Communication at Temple University in Philadelphia, where she founded the Media Education Lab. She is one of the nation’s […]
Do Smart Phones = Smart Kids? The Impact of the Mobile Explosion on America’s Kids, Families, and Schools
Common Sense Media is dedicated to improving the lives of kids and families by providing the trustworthy information, education, and independent voice they need to thrive in a world of media and technology. The Common Sense Media White Paper Do Smart Phones = Smart Kids? explores the impact mobile technology is having on America’s kids, […]
NetSmartz Workshop
NetSmartz Workshop is an interactive, educational program of the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children® (NCMEC) that provides age-appropriate resources to help teach children how to be safer on- and offline. The program is designed for children ages 5-17, parents and guardians, educators, and law enforcement. With resources such as videos, games, activity cards, […]
CyberCivics Blog
Upon completing the first-ever M.A. program in Media Psychology and Social Change, a pioneering field that focuses on how human behavior is affected by the media and how to use it to influence social change, Diana Graber and Cynthia Lieberman felt compelled to apply their state-of-the-art education and 40+ years of combined entertainment/media experience to […]
- « Previous Page
- 1
- …
- 42
- 43
- 44
- 45
- 46
- …
- 149
- Next Page »