In April 2008, Pérez-Tornero received an urgent commission from UNESCO to draft a textbase to develop a curriculum for teacher training in media and information literacy. There were already some precedents in the shape of previous work carried out by Perez-Tornero for UNESCO. In 2002, in a joint UNESCO and European Commission project, MENTOR, Pérez-Tornero […]
Common Sense
Common Sense Media is a national organization led by concerned parents and individuals with experience in child advocacy, public policy, education, media, and entertainment. Common Sense Media is dedicated to improving the media and entertainment lives of kids and families. It recognizes that media and entertainment profoundly impact the social, emotional, and physical development of […]
Media Literacy Education
According to the definition given in the UNESCO documents, Media Education: – deals with all communication media and includes the printed word and graphics, the sound, the still as well as the moving image, delivered on any kind of technology; – enables people to gain understanding of the communication media used in their society and […]
Center for Media and Information Literacy (CMIL)
The Center for Media and Information Literacy was established in 2012 at the School of Media and Communication, Temple University as a hub for research, outreach, education, and professional development on issues involving media literacy and information literacy locally, nationally, and internationally. The work is strategically aligned around three areas: Scholarship: Develop projects and partnerships […]
Media literacy and its use as a method to encourage civic engagement / Alfabetización mediática como método para fomentar la participación cívica
Changes in technology have opened up a new kind of participatory citizenry; one in which engaged citizens’ blog, post, tweet, upload, create, and otherwise interact with others online. This paper explores the intersection of media and information literacy with civic participation by examining three specific programs operating in the United States. These projects include «Powerful […]
Media Literacy Education: Should it be inclusive in the school curriculum?
Media literacy education aims at creating awareness among the individuals about the media to critically analyze, construct and access , create them to effectively encounter the media massages. This study is aimed at preparing a media literacy questionnaire to examine the level of media literacy among the adolescents females and males. Descriptive method using survey […]
Enlisting media and informational literacy for gender equality and women’s empowerment
The importance of affording media and information literacy (MIL) competencies to women/girls and men/ boys globally has received increasing attention and has been renewed over the past decade. MIL has been positioned as a basis for the ethical use of information, freedom of expression and freedom of information. It has been proposed as a tool […]
Exploring the use and the impacts of social media on teaching and learning science in Saudi
This article reports on a study conducted on Saudi middle school science teachers and students. The study implemented a 46-item Likert-scale questionnaire, aimed to investigate teachers’ vs. students’ positions and views in regards: smart devices use and access, the current use of social websites, the use of the web, views of the impact of social […]
Sense-making: Information Literacy for Lifelong Learning and Knowledge Management
The paper emphasises the sense-making approach to the concept and practice of information literacy (IL). After discussing the meaning and purpose of IL, passing references are made to the IL standards, models, and rubrics. The information search process is emphasised in this paper. Nature and types of knowledge and learning have also been discussed. Expectations […]
City Kids
Founded by Laurie Meadoff in 1985, The CityKids Foundation has established and maintained cutting edge youth development programs, training tens of thousands of diverse young people, by providing opportunities for personal growth, leadership, and artistic expression. Laurie was inspired to create CityKids after a visit to the Albany Empire in London, a social services and […]
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