Subtitled into over 40 languages—– Creativity expert Sir Ken Robinson challenges the way we’re educating our children. He champions a radical rethink of our school systems, to cultivate creativity and acknowledge multiple types of… and the role of information and communication technologies,
Kids and Credibility: An Empirical Examination of Youth, Digital Media Use, and Information Credibility
Today’s young people are growing up in a world full of smartphones, texting, YouTube, Internet access, and instant entertainment and information. But while they may be media-savvy, we maintain that they are not necessarily media- or digital-literate. ————- Multiple studies have shown that many young people lack the media and information-literacy skills they need to […]
Eli Pariser’s TEDTalk “Beware online ‘filter bubbles’”
About how internet seach engines are tailored to the user’s previous links and search, and purchases, and “Internat algorithms”. A must see.
Healthy MEdia: Commission for Positive Images of Women and Girls
Convening the first National Dialogue on healthy images of women and girls in the media, and gaining an industry-wide commitment to promote positive media images Community Conversations Fact Sheet (PDF)Girl Scout Research and ProgramsTips for the Industry (PDF)Advocacy Efforts Stand Up for Healthy Media ImagesResources Recognizing the need for gender balance and positive portrayals of […]
ICT Contours in Africa’s Development: Prospects and Concerns
One of the most important features of the digital age is the use of new communications technologies to build digital citizenships. Cultures could be a source of conflict that affect the use of new media to make powerful collaborations among online communities across societies, and within the same society, however, there are still altercation between […]
Media Coverage of Domestic Violence in Africa: The Case of South Africa
In the current media globalization, the amount of time one spends with it has increased. In the meantime, different mass media contain considerable amounts of violence that have led to a combination of scientific intrigue. Violence has become the foundation of many films, TV movies, and action series. In fact, violence is often synonymous with […]
Modern Media Education in Russia: theory and practice. 2011.
The actuality of this book is determined by the urgent necessity of the comprehension of the modern situation in Russian media education, the realization of the theoretically and methodically grounded system of the media education, promotes the forming of the students’ media acknowledgement and individual critical and creative thinking. As for future teachers, this system […]
European Schoolnet News (Issue 59 – May 2011)
SUMMARY Issue 59 – May 2011 Nanoyou – eTwinning toolkit now available New learning game on drugs development Call for Ambassadors and Teacher Advisers for U4energy iTEC obtains Nordic support from Finnish teacher training network Create your OpenID and participate in Nanoyou, Scientix and IYC online communities Teach.us, the community for web 2.0 teaching, now […]
Access to the Web is a Human Right: How to Make It Happen
Two decades after creating the World Wide Web, in a speech at an MIT symposium, Tim Berners-Lee said that “access to the web is now a human right”. Probably not many people know, however, that only 25.6% of the world population has internet access. This means there are 5 billion people worldwide who cannot benefit […]
As Seen on TV or Was that My Phone? “New Media” Literacy
Media literacy studies traditionally have been the domain of the English and Language Arts classrooms. Cultural studies has not made significant inroads into school-based media studies although, like media studies, it too is concerned with the politics of image/text representations. Information literacy, which also passes as computer or technology literacy, has focused principally on the […]
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