The Plan’s call for action over the next decade includes the following goals and recommendations: · Connect 100 million households to affordable 100-megabits-per-second service, building the world’s largest market of high-speed broadband users and ensuring that new jobs and businesses are created in America. · Affordable access in every American community to ultra-high-speed broadband of […]
The Epistemological Equation: Integrating Media Analysis into the Core Curriculum
Chris Sperry gave this keynote address at the National Association for Media Literacy Education conference in Detroit on August 4, 2009. Chris is the Director of Curriculum and Staff Development for Project Look Sharp, a media literacy initiative at Ithaca College founded in 1995. He has taught secondary social studies and media studies at the […]
“The Digital World of Young Children: Emergent Literacy”
In an effort to better understand the ways in which young people’s learning and expression are being shaped by mobile and digital technologies, the Pearson Foundation released “The Digital World of Young Children: Emergent Literacy,” a research white paper on the effects of digital media on young children’s learning at the 2010 Consortium for School […]
Teaching the Leeves
Talking about race and class in America has never been easy. The tragedy of Hurricane Katrina provides an opportunity to renew the American conversation on this subject—a challenging agenda for our society today. “It’s very hard to pierce through the public consciousness and to do a sustained public education campaign in the absence of some […]
Beyond Cynicism: Media Literacy and Civic Outcomes in Higher Education
This article explores what media literacy courses actually teach students. Do students become more knowledgeable consumers of media messages? Do students, armed with that knowledge, become more engaged citizens? A large multiyear study utilizing a sample of 239 University of Maryland undergraduates in a pre-post/control quasi-experiment found that the students enrolled in a media literacy […]
PLUNDER: the crime of our time
Exposing the forces responsible for the loss of trillions of dollars, millions of jobs, massive foreclosures and the disappearance of retirement funds, Plunder: The Crime of Our Time investigates the unregulated fraud and theft that led to the market’s collapse in fall 2008. Filmmaker Danny Schechter, Emmy Award-winning former ABC News and CNN producer, explores […]
Nordicom – Media Polici Newsletter Number 3, 2009
Media literacy is another issue which received much attention during the past year. The interest in this subject seems partly to be linked to growing concerns about illegal downloading. The appeal of media education in this context is probably that it constitutes not only a complement to law enforcement but also a softer, less controversial […]
Gateway Media Literacy Partners: Media Literacy Week
Media Literacy Week–when community citizens--educators, media professionals, youth and youth advocates, health educators, librarians, journalists, academics, researchers and administrators--participate in workshops, presentations and other educational programming focusing on ways to promote and sustain media literacy. The week encourages community-wide conversations about this important 21st‐century survival skill.
Understanding Media Literacy (video)
Understanding Media Literacy
The study of media education in the college classroom
Media literacy is an international movement to provide students skills and insights to interpret media. Here’s some thoughts on media education for college students.
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