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Global Migration Film Festival – Vienna
The Global Migration Film Festival, organized by the International Organization for Migration, will take place on 14th December at Top Kino, Vienna, marking IOM’s 65th anniversary and the International Migrants Day. On this occasion, IOM Austria will screen the film Wallah – Je te jure. For more information download attachment: invitation-to-vienna-migration-film-festival
Find out more »Global Migration Film Festival – New York
The Global Migration Film Festival and International Migrants Day event, organized by the International Organization for Migration, will take place on 15th December at UN Headquarters, New York. Entry is free; seating is on a first-come, first-serve basis. The event will take place from 10am-12pm in Conference Room 6. For more information download attachment: invitation-to-unhq-migration-film-festival
Find out more »Longing & Belonging: Prizewinning Films from PLURAL+
Children’s Film Festival Seattle is proud to be one of more than 50 partners of PLURAL+ — a youth-produced video festival that encourages young people to make films about migration, diversity and social inclusion, and to share their creative vision with the world. The films here, all made by filmmakers 25 years and younger, are the most recent prizewinners at PLURAL+ 2016 festival. In these searing and heartfelt shorts, you’ll meet Middle-Eastern refugees who express the trauma of leaving home,…
Find out more »The 12th Northeast Media Literacy Conference
Central Connecticut State University is proud and delighted to announce the return of the Northeast Media Literacy Conference. Dr. Thomas Goodkind, Professor Emeritus, University of Connecticut founded the conference in 2003 supported by the Neag School of Education at UConn. The conference served as a vital source of community, advocacy, pedagogy, and innovation in the field of media literacy. In the years since the founding of the conference the centrality of media to our individual, social, cultural and civic lives…
Find out more »Media and Information Literacy: Educational Strategies for the Prevention of Violent Extremism
UNAOC’s Media and Information Literacy program and United Nations Academic Impact’s “Unlearning Intolerance” program have organized this side event as part of UNAI’s “Prevention Forum” discussion series. The event will also be an occasion for the presentation of the most recent UNAOC-UNESCO-NORDICOM publication “Opportunities for Media and Information Literacy in the Middle East and North Africa”.
Find out more »Learning Media for Digital Citizenship
Media & Learning 2017 is all about inspiring, informing and sharing great ideas on what it means to be a digital citizen and how media fits into this process. Students nowadays are expected to play an active role online rather than simply being passive consumers of content, but what does it take to really instill them with the skills and competences to be effective, responsible and creative online? What’s the best way to ensure that students can be in the…
Find out more »Taller Telekids imparte curso “Cómo guiar a los alumnos para realizar un cortometraje” a través del programa Aula de Cine
Se trata de un taller audiovisual para profesores propuesto y organizado por el programa AulaDcine, de la Consejería de Cultura y Consejería de Educación (Junta de Andalucía) y realizado por Taller Telekids. Durante algunos meses Taller Telekids impartió talleres a lo largo de la geografía andaluza para formar a profesorado de primaria y secundaria. Estos, a su vez, ofrecerán la posibilidad a sus alumnos de realizar un cortometraje promoviendo así uno de los aspectos de la educación mediática.
Find out more »DIGITAL EngAGEment : Media Literacy in the 21st Century
The Media Studies M.S. Program at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York is pleased to announce its first annual DIGITAL EngAGEment conference on May 5, 2017 at 25 Broadway in Manhattan’s Financial District. DIGITAL EngAGEment encompasses the myriad ways humans encounter, utilize, create and participate with digital technologies, processes, experiences, cultures and environments in the contemporary moment. The inaugural conference theme: 21st Century Media Literacy, is a call to express and refresh concepts of media literacy and…
Find out more »World Press Freedom Forum – Hate speech and MIL –
World Press Freedom Forum - Hate speech and possibility of Media and Information Literacy - The aim of the forum is to think the situation of hate speech and "hate news" on Koreans, Chinese and Okinawans as well as anti-hate speech and the MIL movements in Japan. Recently, hate speech over resident-Koreans has been widespread on both social media and the streets, creating an atmosphere of intolerance and racism. In 2016, Japan enacted the anti-hate speech law and anti- hate…
Find out more »Las Reglas de Juego: Infancia, Adolescencia, Pantallas (Jornada OCTA 2017)
A.1 ¿Qué hace la infancia con las pantallas? Proyección videos; intervenciones de infancia; Móviles; participación colegios;… A.2 ¿Cómo usan los adolescentes las pantallas? Utilización nuevas tecnologías; videos; en la escuela; en el juego; en casa; intervención de adolescentes (colegios)… A.3 Padres y madres y educadores. 1. Riesgos de su uso “indiscriminado” 2. Beneficios de un uso “sostenible” 3. La impor tancia de la educación 4. La labor de los padres y madres See program here: https://gsia.blogspot.com.es/2017/04/las-reglas-de-juego-jornada-octa.html
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