Adolescents are avid users of mobile devices. Close to 80 percent of adolescents in the United States now own a mobile phone and they are using them to send, on average, 60 text messages per day (Lenhart, 2012). As mobile devices become ever-present in the adolescents’ lives, parents, educators and policy-makers are asking about the […]
Media and information literacy policies in the UK
This is a position paper on the capacity for media and information education in the UK in 2014 to facilitate media, digital and information literacy as defined by the European Commission (EC) and on the relationship between UK media/information education, regulation and law. Because the UK has a long tradition of media education within the […]
Taking Media Literacy to the U.K.
Media literacy teaches people how to think. Critical thinking is very much needed in our new world of social media. The curriculum makes the connections between reality television and the world of social media. With social media we communicate with real people, however there are often elements of acting, of portraying how we want to […]
Political Engagement During a Presidential Election Year: A Case Study of Media Literacy Students
This exploratory, mixed-methods study uses data gathered during the previous U.S. presidential election in 2012 to evaluate student political engagement and digital culture. Survey results and media diary entries revealed that college students enrolled in a media literacy course during Super Tuesday or Election Day gravitated toward low-barrier political actions and expressive modes of citizenship, […]
The Core Concepts: Fundamental to Media Literacy Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
“New media” does not change the essence of what media literacy is, nor does it affect its ongoing importance in society. Len Masterman, a UK-based professor, published his ground-breaking books in the 1980’s and laid the foundation for media literacy to be taught to elementary and secondary students in a systematic way that is consistent, […]
Three-Year-Old Photographers: Educational Mediation as a Basis for Visual Literacy via Digital Photography in Early Childhood
The study examines two years of an educational program for children aged three to four, based on the use of digital cameras. It assesses the program’s effects on the children and adults involved in the project, and explores how they help the youngsters acquire visual literacy. Operating under the assumption that formal curricula usually marginalize […]
Media Smart
Media Smart is a media literacy programme for 7 to 16 year olds that creates free educational materials for schools and youth organisations, for teachers and guardians, to help young people think critically about the advertising they come across in their daily lives. Media Smart’s materials use real and current examples of advertising that we’re […]
Camera-etc
Camera-etc is a production workshop in which children, young people and adults make animated films together in a group, assisted by professionals. Camera-etc also produces art house films and co-produces with other organisations. Camera-etc was created in 1979 for the purpose of making and producing short animated films. Recognised as Production Workshop and Centre for […]
Learning to Live Together: The role of education in preventing violent extremism
Whenever I hear words such as “violent extremism”, it is as if I am drained and a feeling of fatigue overpowers me. The words conjure up images of dead and wounded children and young people. Children as victims. There is Alan Kurdî, the little boy found drowned on the beach in Turkey. There is Omran […]
Connecting the dots: Media & Information Literacy, Preventing Violent Extremism, and the Global Goals
Most of the efforts to prevent young people’s attraction towards violent extremism fall on ears that are mainly already immune to the lure of violence connected to some form of religious extremism. Many research and studies indicate that social exclusion (real or perceived) is in fact the main engine that pushes young people towards violent […]
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