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Youth Noise

, Filed Under: Resources, Youth Media

YN’s new MyCauseIs tool can let you create personalized web pages for the causes you care about. It’s easy to upload videos and photos, write blogs, invite friends and add actions. Connect with people across the globe who are passionate about social change. This page provides 14 Cause categories (animal rights, art & media, business […]

 

WAC Performing Arts and Media College

, Filed Under: Media & Information Literacy, Resources

This page has information on the wide range of research projects that WAC is involved in. WAC’s research work is mainly concerned with examining the role that the arts and ‘informal education’ has in engaging with children and young people. It also wants to know if these qualities could be transferred across to the formal […]

 

Pedagogy in the playroom

, Filed Under: Media & Information Literacy, Resources, Youth Media

Drawing on research conducted as part of the ESRC TLRP-funded study Interplay: Play, learning and ICT in pre-school settings, Lydia discusses pedagogy relating to play with digital technologies and try to answer some questions that motivated the research. How explicitly do practitioners manage this play? To what extent do young children learn through play with […]

 

Learning the rules of play

, Filed Under: Media & Information Literacy, Resources, Youth Media

Caroline Pelletier examines the social functions which a group of students ascribed to play, and how they used play as a framework for making meaning. The findings are based on a research study which involved students analyzing a variety of board games, including the relationship between their rules and the kinds of pleasures these provided. […]