Divina Frau-Meigs’ Media Matters in the Cultural Contradictions of the ‘Information Society’ – Towards a human rights-based governance is one of a number of recent monographs to grapple with the changing nature of communication regulation, policy and legislation, at the national, regional and supranational levels. In doing so, Frau-Meigs does not just comment on emerging […]
Bringing the World to School: Integrating News and Media Literacy in Elementary Classrooms
For three years, the Powerful Voices for Kids program, a university-school partnership program of the Media Education Lab at the University of Rhode Island, developed a multifaceted approach to integrate news and current events into in-school and after-school instruction in K-6 schools. Three case studies detailing the program’s impact on an undergraduate novice instructor, an […]
Media Literacy: Education for a Technological Age
Media literacy has come of age. In a society as mass mediated and media saturated as our own, communication technologies are at the core of the political, economic and cultural environments. This article goes over and reflects upon the following issues regarding media literacy: – How many of us – or our students – are […]
SchoolsWorld.tv, a new learning platform
SchoolsWorld is a brand-new, multimedia platform, providing innovative and informative content for everyone involved with or wanting to be involved in schools. Besides all the content from Teachers TV, there is something for everyone: videos, interactive games, work sheets, fact sheets, information and latest education news. There’s also opportunity to get involved in great competitions […]
Horizon Report Europe – 2014 Schools Edition
Low digital skills and competences among school pupils and the need to integrate effective use of information and communication technologies into teacher training are among the most pressing challenges faced by European school education today, according to a report published by the European Commission and the New Media Consortium, a US-based not-for-profit body bringing together […]
Children and Parents: Media Use and Attitudes Report 2014
This report examines children’s media literacy. It provides detailed evidence on media use, attitudes and understanding among children and young people aged 5-15, as well as detailed information about the media access and use of young children aged 3-4. The report also includes findings relating to parents’ views about their children’s media use, and the […]
A Situated Sociocultural Approach to Literacy and Technology
In this paper, James Paul Gee first sketches out the background to the approach he takes to literacy and technology—a “situated-sociocultural” approach. By this term he means a blend of themes from work on situated cognition dealing with mind and learning and work on sociocultural approaches to language, literacy, and technology. He sketches out this […]
Deep Learning Properties of Good Digital Games How Far Can They Go?
In earlier work, James Paul Gee argued that good commercial digital games provide players with good learning. By good learning he meant learning that is guided by and organized by principles empirically confirmed by systematic research on effective and deep learning in the learning sciences. Digital games are, at their heart, problem solving spaces that […]
Communication and New Literacies in the multicultural world
Knowledge and skills for international and intercultural interaction are needed in nearly all fields. This is why multicultural studies should be made an integral part not only of general education but also of adult and vocational education and training. In an intercultural world communication necessarily mediates different values and cultural behaviors. Great civilizations and cultures […]
Digital Media and Learning: A Prospective Retrospective
The MacArthur Foundation released an important report on “connected learning” (Ito, Mizuko, Kris Gutiérrez, Sonia Livingstone, Bill Penuel, Jean Rhodes, Katie Salen, Juliet Schor, Julian Sefton-Green, S. Craig Watkins. 2013. Connected Learning: An Agenda for Research and Design. Irvine, CA: Digital Media and Learning Research Hub). This report represents the culmination of years of work […]
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