This article purports the idea that summer programs that experiment with media literacy and social-emotional learning could potentially affect students’ academic performance. Based on a six-week program, working with rising eighth grade students in a low-income school district, this program allowed students to work on media projects while trying to develop stronger capacities of self-awareness, […]
Building a Global Community for Media Education Research
In the UK context, media education has been struggling recently after a long period of growth. Most certainly there is trouble ahead as a reactionary political administration strives to essentialize the educational curriculum and research landscape around STEM. Media education sits precariously on the hostile border territories between Arts and Humanities. We can plead for […]
Media Literacy, Education and (Civic) Capability: A Transferable Methodology
This article shares research into the relationship between a formal media educational encounter in the UK and the broad objectives for media and information literacy education circulating in mainland Europe and the US. A pilot study, developed with a special interest group of the United Kingdom Literacy Association, applied a three part methodology for comparing […]
A Deeper Sense of Literacy
Media Literacy can be used effectively as a pedagogical approach for teaching core content across the K-12 curriculum, thus meeting the needs of both teachers and students by promoting critical thinking, communication, and technology skills. This article focuses on the work of Project Look Sharp at Ithaca College, a media literacy initiative working primarily with […]
Effective Use of New Learning Media and Technology
New learning media and technology are being used and tested across the entire spectrum of two- and four-year colleges and universities and K-12 schools. Common goals of these widely varied efforts include improving learning outcomes, increasing efficiency and productivity, and making knowledge more accessible. Steve Arnold, vice-chair of the board of the George Lucas Educational […]
The Nine Elements Of Digital Citizenship
Each day the world is becoming increasingly digital/ Your students begin to use more and more technology devices at home and in the classroom. But, are they prepared to be good digital citizens? Just as you teach your students the rules of society, it is imperative that you teach them the rules of the digital […]
Media Literacy as a Violence-Prevention Strategy: A Pilot Evaluation
Youth violence is a major unresolved public health problem in the United States and media exposure to violence is a synergistic source of this national problem. One media literacy curriculum designed specifically to address this issue is Beyond Blame: Challenging Violence in the Media. The purpose of this pilot study was to examine the curriculum’s […]
Digital and Media Literacy: Connecting Culture and Classroom
Media texts and technology tools provide all of us, young and old, with resources for a lifetime of learning and entertainment – and they both represent and shape our culture’s values and priorities, offering us a daily array of tensions and taboos. When teachers have a set of conceptual principles, grounded in research evidence, it […]
New Media Literacies By Design: The Game School
In late 2006, Henry Jenkins, et al., produced a working paper that debuted alongside a new commitment from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. In the paper, Jenkins and his co-authors characterized the emerging field of media literacy as focused on consumption of media and called for an extension of the traditional concepts […]
Facebook reportedly testing new tool to combat fake news
Facebook appears to be testing a tool designed to help it identify and hide so called “fake news” on the social network, in an attempt to quell increasingly vocal criticism of its role in spreading untruths and propaganda. The tool, reported by at least three separate Facebook users on Twitter, asks readers to rank on […]
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