Lesson planning takes time, and sometimes, lots of it. Whether you’re a new teacher or seasoned veteran, planning activities and instruction requires thoughtful and thorough preparation. And thankfully, the Internet offers a wealth of useful information to help educators create dynamic, engaging, and educationally effective lesson plans.
New York Times Keeps ‘Illegal Immigrant’
Despite the decision of the Associated Press (AP) and some other media to ditch the term “illegal immigrant” from their stylebooks, the New York Times decided to keep it. “Being called ‘illegal’ without trail or conviction is inaccurate and offensive”, wrote Aidan White for the Media Diversity Institute’s blog reviewing the AP’s decision to ban […]
PETLab – The Prototyping, Education and Technology Lab
The Prototyping, Education and Technology Lab (PETLab) is dedicated to the design and use of games as a form of public interest and engagement. To do this, we emphasize iterative design methodologies and the processes of collaborative design. Through our work, we connect with scholars and designers in the field of digital media, practitioners working […]
The need for media literacy in the digital age
Today’s students are not being equipped with the critical thinking and analysis skills they need to successfully navigate our media-saturated environment. Time spent consuming media, now up to nearly eight hours a day, continues to increase, but students often are poorly versed in analyzing and understanding different media messages and formats. They prefer to see […]
Cyberwise – A Learning Hub to Help Educators, Parents, Kids Understand and Use Digital Media Safely and Wisely
The mission of this platform is to share a passion for new media literacy and educational technology by offering fun, free, easy-to-use, credible content and materials that show not just how but why it pays to be “CyberWise.”
The Digital Citizen
Digital Newspaper on topics relevant for the “digital citizen”
What is Digital Citizenship
This is a simple guide to help parents and educators understand why digital citizenship is the first step towards media literacy
The Definition Of Digital Citizenship
As more and more students interact digitally–with content, one another, and various communities–the concept of digital citizenship becomes increasingly important. Which begs the question: what is digital citizenship? Well, first citizenship, which is formally defined as “the quality of an individual’s response to membership in a community.” This makes citizenship far more complex than a […]
The Peace Gong – The Children’s Newspaper
This children’s newspaper is part of a Media and Information Literacy Initiative of Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore Foundation. This issue on the post 2015 development agenda is being published in association with the UN Volunteers, International Association for Volunteer Effort, Anant Vikas Trust and PIDT.
MIL TOT in Qatar
The Doha Centre for Media Freedom (DCMF) is set to organize a specialized “Training the Trainers” workshop for its Media & Information Literacy programme from 12th till 16th May in the Concorde Hotel Doha. Participants include Qatari trainers and journalists from various organizations & media outlets such as Qatar University, Arabic daily Al-Sharq, Aljazeera Channel, […]
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