Proclamations like ‘kids need to learn to code!’ may be accurate but, without some context and conceptual unpacking, they can be rather unhelpful. Thankfully, fellow DMLcentral contributor Ben Williamson has done a great job of problematising the current preoccupation with coding by asking questions like: “What assumptions, practices and kinds of thinking are privileged by […]
Fundacion MediaBus
MediaBus es una fundación que nace en Santiago de Chile el 2013 con la misión de contribuir al aprendizaje, la inclusión social y la convivencia escolar a través de la alfabetización mediática y la producción audiovisual en establecimientos educacionales.
Empowering rural communities through multimedia village information centers
Agriculture including Crop husbandry, Animal husbandry, Fisheries, Forestry, Agro-forestry and Agro-industries provides livelihoods to over 70 per cent of rural Indian population. Developing appropriate ICTs for sustainable development and livelihood is, therefore, essential at grass roots level, i.e., at community level. A study was performed for determining the information needs of different communities and designing […]
Female television characters are two-dimensional
From Skyler White to Daenarys Targaryen, there are a few well-developed women on TV, but we have a long way to go.
Social media during emergencies
Red Cross Societies around the world, including the Canadian Red Cross, are exploring ways in which social media can affect the efficiency of a disaster response. To improve its understanding of social media, the Canadian Red Cross commissioned Ipsos Reid, a leading polling agency, to conduct a survey to explore how Canadians use social media […]
Explicating inter-modal meaning-making in media and literary texts: Towards a metalanguage of image/language relations
There appearsto be a widespread consensus among educational researchersfrom diverse discipline backgroundsthat literacy and literacy pedagogy can no longer be discussed in terms oflanguage alone, and thatreconceptualizing literacy and literacy education at least needsto incorporate the role ofimagesin an increasing range of different types of texts. It is also the case thatsyllabifor the teaching of […]
Transforming Teaching and Learning Through Critical Media Literacy Pedagogy
This article provides a framework and examples for critical media literacy pedagogy. More than simply guiding how students read and interpret the texts they encounter, critical media literacy pedagogy pushes to illuminate the underlying power structures that are a part of every media text. Throughout this article, examples from working with high school youth and […]
Media Education Center
Media Education Center is a leading Armenian NGO promoting media literacy education in Armenia. Our mission is to educate children and parents, youths and teachers to become media literate citizens of an inclusive knowledge society. We seek to empower citizens to make responsible choices while dealing with old and new media. Our aim is to […]
What do we know about the network generation? – The reality and expectations of the digitalization of schools
The development of civilization has contributed to another change in the approach to education under the influence of the new state of knowledge resulting from the information boom in the new media. On the one hand higher education facilities aim at revitalization and cultivation of traditional values that are included in widely understood humanism trend. […]
Children and advertising literacy: A study of selected schools in Lagos, Nigeria
The purpose of this paper is to examine how children understand advertising messages and to identify those critical impacts of such messages. Six focus group discussion sessions comprising 10 members per group were conducted between 10-13 years studying in schools located in Lagos Metropolis. Samples of schools were drawn purposively whereas the respondents were selected […]
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