This new publication, supported by USAID and the mEducation Alliance, provides a comprehensive summary analysis and overview of 44 existing projects incorporating the use of mobile technologies (broadly defined) to accelerate reading, particularly in developing countries. Written by lead author, Daniel A. Wagner, UNESCO Chair in Learning and Literacy, and Director of the International Literacy […]
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Surveying ICT use in education in Latin America & the Caribbean
Almost a decade ago, delegates from over 175 countries gathered in Geneva for the first ‘World Summit on the Information Society’, a two-part conference (the second stage followed two years later in Tunis) sponsored by the United Nations meant to serve as a platform for global discussion about how new information and communication technologies were […]
Russia and Ukraine: Media Literacy Education Approaches
European Researcher, 2012, Vol.(30), № 9-3. For many decades of the Soviet period the development of media education in Russia and Ukraine has been practically coinciding. Media educational lessons (mainly on the material of cinematography and the press) were of optional and focal character and depended on the enthusiasm of certain teachers. In theory and […]
Media Education Literacy in the World: Trends
European Researcher. 2014, Vol. 67, N 1-2, p.176-187. Taking into account the fact that UNESCO defines media education literacy as the priority field of the cultural educational development in the XXI century, media literacy has good prospects in Russia. We can also see the fast progress of media education in other Eastern European countries. For […]
La Media Literacy nella prospettiva finlandese, nordica ed europea
Nel secolo scorso, e in special modo negli ultimi dieci anni, la questione dei media e, in particolare, il tema della media literacy ha attratto l’interesse delle autorità, degli studiosi e di altri responsabili nel settore educativo. Nel tempo sono entrati in uso molti concetti, ma sfortunatamente senza che ne venisse fornita una definizione, nella […]
Closing the Gap in Education and Technology
This report focuses not only on the gaps facing Latin America in both education and technology, but especially on the interactions between the two. The central premise of the report is that skills and technology interact in important ways, and this relationship is a fundamental reason for the large observed differences in productivity and incomes […]
Developing Independent Media as an Institution of Accountable Governance
This handbook is the result of a multi-year effort, the first stage of which ‘Public Sentinel: News Media and Governance Reform’. That book explored key issues surrounding the media and governance, including: the ideal role of the media system in strengthening democratic governance, the conditions under which media systems fulfill their objectives, and the policy […]
Europe struggles with digital education
European higher education remains too conservative to adapt to technological innovations, said a Commission High Level Group on the Modernisation of Higher Education in its report published last week (22 October).
Council conclusions on European Audiovisual Policy in the Digital Era
Education, Youth, CULTURE and SPORT Council meeting Brussels, 25 November 2014 The Council adopted the following conclusions: THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION RECOGNISING THAT: 1. the audiovisual industry is crucial both in creating sustainable growth and jobs and in fostering cultural and linguistic diversity and therefore represents a key area for the economic, cultural […]
Pour une éducation à l’avatar: Entre dissimulation et authenticité
Avec l’explosion des médias sociaux, les informations que les jeunes diffusent sur le web est une préoccupation pour les éducateurs. Parmi ces informations, celles qui révèlent au monde extérieur son identité personnelle sont certainement celles que les adultes considèrent comme potentiellement dangereuses pour le jeune usager des réseaux (Jenkins, Purushotma, Clinton, Weigel, & Robison, 2006). […]
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