The One Laptop per Child (OLPC) program is one of the most ambitious educational reform initiatives the world has ever seen. The program has developed a radically new low-cost laptop computer and aggressively promoted its plans to put the computer in the hands of hundreds of millions of children around the world, focusing on those […]
Kids Closer Up: Playing, Learning, and Growing with Digital Media
Paper from Lori Takeuchi, Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop Until now, adolescents have received most of the at- tention as far as video game, Internet, and cell phone use are concerned, from both the press and the re- search community. But digital engagement begins well before adolescence. When and where are chil- dren […]
International Journal of Learning Media
The International Journal of Learning and Media (IJLM) provides a forum for scholars, researchers, and practitioners to examine the changing relationships between learning and media across a wide range of forms and settings. Our focus is particularly, but by no means exclusively, on young people, and we understand learning in broad terms to include informal […]
Global Media Journal, African Edition
NEW JRE Affiliations and Partnerships-Global Media Journal, African Edition-ISSN 2073-2740 Global Media Journal, a publication of the Global Communication Association, is sponsored by the Department of Communication and Creative Arts, Purdue University, Calumet, Hammond, Indiana, USA. The African Edition of Global Media Journal is maintained by the Journalism Department of Stellenbosch University in the Western […]
MILID Highlight: Media Education – Why is it important?, Cátedra Unesco-Unaoc Milid Unitwin
Why is Important Media Educatio? why it is important Media Education? experts in communication, education, and new technologies, from Catedra Unesco, talk about the role of media in education, and the need to convert new technologies into an educational tool.
Under 30! The Youth Development Agency
To harness the hidden and too often wasted potential for youth development, a group of motivated young people with experience both as youth activists and within development agencies have set up Under30 – The Youth Development Agency. The overall objective of Under30 is to empower young people to become leaders in development cooperation.
PLAY! PARTICIPATORY CULTURE
Central to the dynamic and fluid nature of participatory learning is the concept of a participatory culture. Digitally mediated practices make visible the negotiated and co-constructive nature of students’ learning ecologies. Youth, and adults alike, are becoming authors and developing videos with circulation on YouTube, writing blogs and recording their experiences in LiveJournal, writing fan […]
New Media Literacies Blog
One of our key goals is to stop focusing quite so much on “do kids have computers in their classroom?” and start focusing more on “do kids have the basic social skills and cultural competencies so that when they do get computers in their classroom, they can participate fully?” Many educators assume that (1) students […]
Highest Common Denominator
Highest Common Denominator Media Group is convinced that a growing market for more enlightened, smarter media exists. We believe that society is calling out for stories that define us not as enemies but as humans, that celebrate our universal sacred values – those values that unite all of humanity – and that given the increasingly […]
Journalism Research and Education Journals (English and Portuguese)
The field of journalism has always attempted to serve the news industry and the university, while enhancing the institution of democracy. This equation of educating students, and training journalists to work in the news industry, makes the field of journalism serve the establishment of a democratic society. Over the years, there is a more pressing […]
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