The Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture has drawn up Cultural Policy Guidelines to promote media literacy for 2013–2016. The Guidelines draw on the objectives set out in the Government Programme, on the growing range of media education actors, on the constantly evolving media environment and on the field of media education. Link: http://julkaisut.valtioneuvosto.fi/bitstream/handle/10024/75280/OKM13.pdfAuthor: Paavo […]
The Game Educator’s Handbook
This book is intended as an aid for all types of game educators. The target group consists of parents, schools, libraries, youth organisations, and anyone with connections to children, adolescents or adults that play digital games. The aim is to provide expert information, based on research and experience, about what gaming and related phenomena are […]
Pensamiento de diseño y aprendizaje colaborativo
El artículo presenta el pensamiento de diseño como un enfoque alternativo para realizar investigaciones sobre aprendizaje colaborativo con tecnología. Se describen dos resultados de investigación a fin de debatir las posibilidades y los retos de aplicar métodos de diseño para diseñar e investigar herramientas de construcción de conocimiento colaborativo. El texto comienza definiendo el aprendizaje […]
Finnish Centre for Media Education and Audiovisual Media (MEKU)
Finnish Centre for Media Education and Audiovisual Media MEKU is the national agency subordinate to the Ministry of Education and Culture. MEKU has a wide range of tasks related to promoting media education and supervising provision of audiovisual programmes. MEKU acts as an expert in the development of children’s media environment and promotes research related […]
Media and Digital Literacies in Secondary School
New publication: Reijo Kupiainen, Media and Digital Literacies in Secondary School (Peter Lang, 2013) The book has been published in the series of New Literacies and Digital Epistemologies (Colin Lankshear& Michele Knobel, General Editors) Media and Digital Literacies in Secondary School examines young people’s media practices and media literacies in school spaces where these practices […]
Children and New Media: Youth Media Participation. A Case Study of Egypt and Finland
This article focuses on a single case study; the first findings of a qualitative part of the Youth Media Participation (YMP) project in Argentina, Egypt, Finland and India (2009-11) on 10-18 year-old children’s participation through media. Youth Media Participation is funded by the Academy of Finland (2009-11). It collects and analyses three kinds of data […]
Preliminary results of the 0-8-year old small children’s Media Barometer in Finland
The Finnish Society on Media Education conducted a study on children’s media use by interviewing children and observing their media environment, and by a questionnaire targeted at the parents of 0-8-year-olds. 36 children took part in the interviews and observations – at home, in day care and in schools – in different parts of the […]
Digital Tools and Media Literacy
Invitation to Funded Workshops in Finland 2011————————————- Teachers, head teachers, teacher trainers, and adult educators from EU countries,* Croatia, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Turkey and Switzerland, are eligible for Comenius or Gundtvig grants. The funding is available for workshops taking place in Oulu, Finland during 2011 and includes participant travel costs, accommodation (plus breakfast and lunch), […]
Media education in Finland. Children and media newsletter 1/2010.
Children and Media is an Action Plan initiated by the Ministry of Education and Culture, Deparment for Cultural, Sport and Youth Policy, Division for Cultural Policy, Finland. In this letter: Media education learning path, children, media and libraries, early childhood media education: “Games for the whole family” etc.
Décadas de Educación en Medios de Comunicación en Finlandia
La historia de la educación en medios de comunicación en Finlandia puede ser percibida como parte del desarrollo de la educación finlandesa. El desarrollo de la educación en medios de comunicación en Finlandia ha pasado por numerosas fases. Desde el comienzo del milenio el concepto de la educación en medios de comunicación se ha establecido […]