This article examines the use of media in the construction of a “new” language for children. We studied how children acquire and use media literacy skills through their engagement in an educational art project. This media literacy project is rooted in the realm of audiovisual media, within which children’s sound and visual worlds are the […]
e-Skills Week Teacher Guide
The e-Skills Week campaign, culminating to the e-Skills Week from 1 to 5 March 2010, seeks to raise interest of young people in new technologies and ICT related jobs. And because young people are very much influenced by their teachers, the e-Skills Week team has prepared the e-Skills Week Teacher Guide
University of California — Spanish Broadcast and Media Services
Today’s children spend more time in front of the TV than in school. Children learn by watching. For many children TV has become the most important teacher. That could be dangerous. Studies show that TV viewing may be bad for children.
Center on Media and Child Health
The Center on Media and Child Health is an interdisciplinary research center based at Children’s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, and Harvard School of Public Health.
Media Make Change – Changemakers
Media Make Change is a media justice organization that works to support and empower under-served communities through snew (social + new) media technology, literacy, and advocacy. MMC will address the digital divide by providing access to broadband Internet and workshop trainings in communities typically left behind in the digital age.
Kids First Film Festival
The Coalition for Quality Children’s Media is a national, nonprofit organization founded in 1991 whose mission is to teach children critical viewing skills and to increase the visibility and availability of quality children’s media.
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences | Media Literacy Teacher Guide
The Academy, in cooperation with Young Minds Inspired, produces a series of teacher’s guides that explore the art and science of motion pictures.
Teaching the Leeves
Talking about race and class in America has never been easy. The tragedy of Hurricane Katrina provides an opportunity to renew the American conversation on this subject—a challenging agenda for our society today. “It’s very hard to pierce through the public consciousness and to do a sustained public education campaign in the absence of some […]
ACMA: Australian Communications and Media Authority
Research page as a resource. The role of the ACMA includes provision of information and advice to the community about communications matters and administration of a range of consumer protection measures. To achieve this the ACMA undertakes a range of community awareness programs, including collaborating with other agencies to raise consumer awareness of products and […]
Beyond Cynicism: Media Literacy and Civic Outcomes in Higher Education
This article explores what media literacy courses actually teach students. Do students become more knowledgeable consumers of media messages? Do students, armed with that knowledge, become more engaged citizens? A large multiyear study utilizing a sample of 239 University of Maryland undergraduates in a pre-post/control quasi-experiment found that the students enrolled in a media literacy […]
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