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Media Literacy and New Humanism

, Filed Under: Media & Information Literacy, Media Education Policy, Resources

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Source: UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education
Author: J. M. Pérez Tornero, Tapio Varis
Link: http://iite.unesco.org/pics/publications/en/files/3214678.pdf

Education is strongly influenced by the processes emerging within the society, by intellectual, philosophical and political movements. In the past the humanists’ approach had themost lasting impact on education, initiated innovation
in school curriculum and pedagogical methods. Current advances in information technologies and propagation of new digital media and learning environments stipulate the increasing importance of media literacy, which is today recognized almost universally as one of the key competences in the educational system. The main objective of the study commissioned by the UNESCO Institute for
Information Technologies in Education to Tapio Varis (University of Tampere, Finland) and José Manuel Pérez Tornero (Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain) was to investigate digital and media literacy in the context of educommunication and new humanism that is committed to the goal of counteracting the depersonalising effects of mass technology. The study was initiated to provide a deeper insight into the recent trends in the development of media culture and media literacy movement, and to provide conceptual framework for media literacy, new media literacy curriculum and teacher training.

The book “Media Literacy and New Humanism” informing educators, researchers, policy-makers, the media and civil society about the opportunities that media literacy opens up in the world of global communication and education and how the potential born by the ICTs can improve access and quality of education appears at a very opportune moment.

Media Literacy and New Humanism

, Filed Under: Media & Information Literacy, Resources

Language:
Source: UNESCO
Author: José Manuel Pérez Tornero, Tapio Varis
Link: http://iite.unesco.org/pics/publications/en/files/3214678.pdf

For Mr. Varis “the challenge of the 21st century is the dialogue among the civilizations”. However, he said that currently there are three problems: “First we have to try to understand what is the learning process of becoming literate and what does communication competence and media skills mean in the information society. Second, we have to analyze the increasing neo-illiteracy. Third, we should discuss of what kind of skills and competences should people have in order to become active citizens now as compared to the earlier skills of writing and reading”.

In this context, he raised that there are challenges facing global information society. “In an intercultural world communication necessarily mediates different values and cultural behaviors. Great civilizations and cultures have very different patterns of communication and use different senses in a different way. In consequence, if a truly global information society is to be created, more attention should be given to the diversity of cultures and the co-existence of different civilizations and cultures. For the development of our own language it is necessary to rethink the whole educational system, from primary to higher, and understand the links to multiliteracies, and multimodality ”.

The book Media Literacy and New Humanism was published in 2010 by the Institute for Information Technologies in Education (IITE) within the series monographs Theoretical Aspects of ICT in Education.