Sixty-nine media scholars from Israel and the Unites States responded to an online questionnaire aimed to identify the boundaries of media literacy. The participants received a list of thirty-two potential titles for a final paper and were asked to rate the relevancy of each topic for an undergraduate media literacy course. While the statistical analysis […]
MEDIACY: A way to enrich media literacy
We propose that the discipline or practice of media literacy defined as the ability to access, analyze, evaluate and create media in a variety of forms can be enriched and made more effective by incorporating two of Marshall McLuhan’s insights into the nature of media. The first insight is that the effects of media that […]
Israeli college students challenge media coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
This study is based on a critical media literacy education (CMLE) program in a “peace education through media” (PetMed) project conducted simultaneously in three Israeli academic colleges amongst Arab and Jewish students. It sought to assess general short-term trends of changes in the students’ perceptions of the media coverage of the conflict and the role […]
2018 • VOLUME 65, NUMBER 1 & 2 13 Civic media as a cultural dialogue: A professional development journey of Arab and Jewish teachers via documentary filmmaking in Israel
Eighteen Arab and Jewish teachers of civic education and communication studies took part in a national professional development for peace education at the Israeli Center for Educational Technology from 2016 to 2018. They created documentaries as a way to have a cultural dialogue. While learning to produce a documentary as a form of reflection, the […]
Three-Year-Old Photographers: Educational Mediation as a Basis for Visual Literacy via Digital Photography in Early Childhood
The study examines two years of an educational program for children aged three to four, based on the use of digital cameras. It assesses the program’s effects on the children and adults involved in the project, and explores how they help the youngsters acquire visual literacy. Operating under the assumption that formal curricula usually marginalize […]
Critical Media Consumption: The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict – Instructor’s Manual
This manual is based on what was learned during the courses given in the context of the project. During the first semester of the 2010-2011 school year, the course was given at Netanya Academic College and the Oranim Academic Teachers College During the second semester of the same year, the course was given at Levinsky […]
Critical Media Consumption: The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
This instructor’s manual was developed as part of a program aimed at imparting critical media consumption training in the Middle East. The program was part of the Peace Education Through Media (PET-Med) project in 2010-2011, which was funded by the EU Partnership for Peace Program of the European Commission delegations in Israel, the West Bank […]
The Role of the Media among Youngsters in a Multi-Cultural Israel
The aim of the present research is to evaluate the contextualization of the uses that young adults make of the television and the Internet with their daily lives, and the character of the complex mutual relations among them as well as the meanings ascribed to them.
Critical Media Literacy– Children’s Critical Stance in Open Learning Contexts
The study touches on the socialization and educational processes that children (ages 10-12) experience in their daily encounters with the open learning media environments. It sheds light on the importance of our awareness as an audience of the centrality of media in shaping our culture and society, and in sharpening the quality of our lives […]
Oranim
El Departamento de educación en línea de Oranim (Oranim Online Education Department) desarrolla programas en línea y programas educativos de punta basados en la comunicación a través de los computadores e Internet. Los medios electrónicos (bases de datos, revistas electrónicas, motores de búsqueda, Internet y herramientas de referencia) han adquirido una creciente importancia, tanto para […]