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Tania Hinojosa

New Media vs Traditional Media | AIBD - Asia Pacific Institute for Broadcasting Develop... - 0 views

  • he mass media has at least three important roles to play: to inform, to educate and to influence opinion.
  • is changing the participation habits of the audiences.
  • Mass media enables people to participate in events and interact with communities over long distance.
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  • One needs only to think of democratic elections, World Cup soccer and royal weddings to appreciate the intensity with which people can share in these events.
  • All these worked until a decade ago when new media emerged with all the fanfare of technological innovation.
  • Welcome to the digital and internet revolution!
  • The new media, digital broadcasting and the internet are sweeping away the limitations of the analogue world and weakening the grip of government-owned platforms.
  • Most technologies described as “new media” are digital, and often have characteristics of being networkable, dense, compressible, interactive and impartial.
  • The modern revolution enables everybody to become a journalist at little cost and with global reach
  • MEDIA AND GOOD GOVERNANCE
  • A responsibility of the media is to ensure fair, accurate and impartial reporting. A set of codes of ethics is essential to maintaining standards for media professionals and organizations.
  • A recent study revealed that a young group spent 16 hours a week to surf the internet, sometimes unnoticed by their parents.
  • COLLABORATING FOR SUCCESS
  • Messages need to be consistent and cohesive. Working online also requires keen communication skills.
Pedro Aparicio

BBC News - Is data visualisation just style over substance? - 0 views

  • Is data visualisation just style over substance?

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    The advent of sophisticated computer graphics has encouraged more and more use of data-visualisation - not least by BBC News.

    The clever means of presenting detailed text or statistical information in a non-conventional manner is developing fast, but some critics argue the core message is lost beneath flashy graphics and misleading information.

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      BBC News explains the use of more data visualization today. I really recommend to watch the video. It's worth.
Carolina Montes

Visual Literacy, New Literacy & Digital Natives: A Guide for UMUC Online Teachers - You... - 0 views

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      Today's readers become literate by learning to read the words and symbols in today's world. 
  • Introduction to the new literacies used by today's digital natives (those who have grown up in the digital revolution) and their need for multimedia materials to match their new way of learning.
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      The new literacy is the ability to read and produce texts that contain not only words but also photographs, videos, info-graphs, art work, excel spread sheets, etc.
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      This is a new language been born and teaching has to adapt to teach this. 
Charmaine Weatherbee

Connecting the Digital Dots: Literacy of the 21st Century (EDUCAUSE Quarterly) | EDUCAU... - 0 views

  • Literacy today depends on understanding the multiple media that make up our high-tech reality and developing the skills to use them effectively
  • the concept of literacy has assumed new meanings
  • Digital and visual literacies are the next wave of communication specialization
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  • Children learn these skills as part of their lives, like language, which they learn without realizing they are learning it.
  • ommon scenario today is a classroom filled with digitally literate students being led by linear-thinking, technologically stymied instructors
  • The greatest challenge is moving beyond the glitz and pizzazz of the flashy technology to teach true literacy in this new milieu
  • Digital literacy represents a person’s ability to perform tasks effectively in a digital environment, with “digital” meaning information represented in numeric form and primarily for use by a computer. Literacy includes the ability to read and interpret media (text, sound, images), to reproduce data and images through digital manipulation, and to evaluate and apply new knowledge gained from digital environments. According to Gilster,5 the most critical of these is the ability to make educated judgments about what we find online.Visual literacy, referred to at times as visual competencies, emerges from seeing and integrating sensory experiences. Focused on sorting and interpreting—sometimes simultaneously—visible actions and symbols, a visually literate person can communicate information in a variety of forms and appreciate the masterworks of visual communication.6 Visually literate individuals have a sense of design—the imaginative ability to create, amend, and reproduce images, digital or not, in a mutable way. Their imaginations seek to reshape the world in which we live, at times creating new realities. According to Bamford,7 “Manipulating images serve[s] to re-code culture.”
Kate Spilseth

Is eLearning on Tablets really Mobile Learning? [Chime in] | The m-Learning Revolution ... - 0 views

  • One of the issues I still cannot get answered is whether “elearning” on tablets should be “mlearning
  • easiest way to answer this question would be to say Yes
  • Mobile and by extension mobile learning is about a new mindset, a new attitude, is almost about unlearning everything we know, and inventing new ways of doing things and having fun along the way.
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  • Is the experience re-imagined for touch or is it just a conversion from something that was intended for the precision of the tip of the arrow of a cursor?
Sarah Rachel

The Importance Behind Concept Learning | Thinkspiration™ The Inspiration® Sof... - 0 views

  • But in reality, concepts and facts require different approaches and different learning strategies.
  • Concept maps can be read as sentences starting from the main idea and working out along the sub-paths.
  • Concept mapping serves several purposes, helping students: -Brainstorm and generate new ideas -Discover new concepts and label propositions that connect them -More clearly communicate ideas, thoughts and information -Integrate new concepts with older concepts
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    Importance of concept-mapping
Pedro Aparicio

BBC News - Go Figure: How do you make statistics relevant to individuals? - 0 views

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      Schools is not the only place where students can learn about visual literacy. Today, students can learn about this topic while watching TV, reading a magazine, or simply in their ride home.
  • Jack Shulze of Berg says the map exploits today's higher levels of visual literacy from games, television and comics. Part of his purpose, he says, was "an exploration into way-finding devices." He writes about his influences here. It's a great image. To me it's also a great metaphor for one of statistics' all-time headaches: how to make aggregate data that describes whole populations, their lives, chances and risks, feel real and relevant to everyone's sense of "me, here, now".
RODRIGO PRIEGO RAMIREZ

Moving at the Speed of Creativity - eBooks - 1 views

  • We need to play with media to become more effective communicators
  • As you learn to play with digital text, images, audio and video, you will communicate more creatively and flexibly with a wider variety of options
  • Although written primarily for educators, anyone who is interested in learning more about digital communication will learn something new from this book. As children, we learn to progressively make sense of our confusing world through play. The same dynamics apply to us as adults communicating with new and different media forms.
David Rueb

Cool Tools for 21st Century Learners: Wallwisher Senbazuru - A New and Improved Digital... - 1 views

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      I love that there's no login. I could see this used by students of all ages in a wide variety of subjects. They could post on a wall or create their own as well.
David Rueb

Cool Tools for 21st Century Learners: Google Docs New Integrated Research Tool - 0 views

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      Could be useful for helping students cite their sources.
Tania Hinojosa

The Visual Literacy Project - 1 views

  • to create & review developmental ties in visual arts vocabulary and studio technique between grade levels and to discover new terminologies since the
  • advent of digital technology & new media • to improve and bridge the use of Visual vocabulary between the elementary, middle school and secondary school panels.
  • Visual literacy may be defined as the ability to recognize and understand ideas conveyed through visible actions or images, as well as to be able to convey ideas or messages through imagery.
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  • isual Literacy has been commonly known as A group of learned or aquired competencies for interpreting and creating visible messages. A visually literate person is able to: A) discern, and make sense of visible phenomenon as part of a visual acuity, B) create static and dynamic visible images or objects effectively in a defined space, C) comprehend and appreciate the visual testaments of others, and D) generate object oriented imagery in the minds eye.
Mariana Perez Galan

Life on the Screen: Visual Literacy in Education | Edutopia - 1 views

  • We need to look at the whole world of communication in a more complete way. We need to take art and music out of "the arts class" and put it into the English class. For instance, the various forms of communication form a circle. On one end of this circle is math, the least emotional of all forms of communication. It's very strict and very concise, and has a very precise way of explaining something. Then you start moving around the circle, and you get to the other end, where we have music, which primarily appeals to your emotions, not to your intellect. So, in this great circle of communication, you go from the emotional end of music and painting and art -- the visual forms of communication -- to the written communication and spoken communication. Finally, you end up at math, which is the most precise. It forms a beautiful circle of communication. But it's all part of the same circle. All these forms of communication are extremely important, and they should be treated that way. Unfortunately, we've moved away from teaching the emotional forms of communication. But if you want to get along in this world, you need to have a heightened sense of emotional intelligence, which is the equal of your intellectual intelligence. One of my concerns is that we're advancing intellectually very fast, but we're not advancing emotionally as quickly.
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      As educators we need to have visual, written and spoken forms of communication in our classrooms. It is vital to work on emotional intelligence to find out about how our kids are feeling at the moment.
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  • Our system of education is locked in a time capsule.
  • we also need to understand the importance of graphics, music, and cinema
  • What do students need to be learning that they're not
  • Knowing these things is as important as knowing what a verb and a subject are, what a period and an exclamation point mean.
  • ut there are rules for telling a story visually that are just as important as grammatical rules or math terms, and you can test people on them as well. There is grammar in film, there is grammar in graphics, there is grammar in music, just like there are rules in math that can be taught. For instance, what emotion does the color red convey? What about blue? What does a straight line mean? How about a diagonal line?
  • They need to understand a new language of expression. The way we are educating is based on nineteenth-century ideas and methods. Here we are, entering the twenty-first century, and you look at our schools and ask, 'Why are we doing things in this ancient way?' Our system of education is locked in a time capsule. You want to say to the people in charge, 'You're not using today's tools! Wake up!'
  • How do we bring these lessons into the classroom? We need to look at the
  • whole world of communication in a more complete way. We need to take art and music out of "the arts class" and put it into the English class.
  • We must accept the fact that learning how to communicate with graphics, with music, with cinema, is just as important as communicating with words. Understanding these rules is as important as learning how to make a sentence work.
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    Talks about the importance of the language of images  and visual references.
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    George Lucas advocating for visual literacy!  This is a man who knows how important it is to be sucessfull in this area! 
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    We need to keep up with constant change, technology, methods, discoveries, We need to teach our children how everything that surrounds them is a powerful tool for them to comprehend the world.
Patricia Morales

The fourth R - news - TES - 0 views

  • This potentially revolutionary change is being driven in large part by technology: it is predicted that e-book technology will give readers the power to annotate not just with text, but also with pictures. Similarly, visuals in maths and science have become increasingly sophisticated.
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      Attention teachers... We need the change... 
Carolina Montes

Google Reader (1000+) - 0 views

  • Make Your Grandparents Proud
  • I saw a banner posted in the hallway of an elementary school this week that read, “Is This Your Best Work? Make Your Grandparents Proud.”
  • this school community is helping children build habits of meaningful self-reflection and consistent good effort, and teaching them to show and share pride in their learning.
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  • we might even notice a few Standards for the 21st Century Learner that fit right in. “Is this your best work” is a self-check that sounds a lot like “Assess the quality and effectiveness of the learning product” (3.4.2) and “Recognize how to focus efforts in personal learning” (4.4.3).
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      Using grandparents as the figure, instead of parents who are likely the person to be contacted when there is poor behavior or work, or even when there is good news to share, reminds students that their work matters.
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    This article shows how an image and banner can change even habits on our students.
Ale Reyes

The Innovative Educator: Top 10 Technology Blogs for Education - 1 views

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    Top ten ed tech blogs to revise for new ideas!
Isabel Fernandez

Why media literacy is so important for children today - Worcester Telegram & Gazette - ... - 0 views

  • Media literacy allows children (and families) to become more aware of both intended and unintended media messages. Children learn to create and think critically about these media messages. These skills allow children to take control of the media that surrounds them, rather than letting it control them. Here are 10 reasons why media literacy should be on your radar.
Ellie Molyneux

Considerations in Cross-Cultural use of Visual Information with Children for Whom Engli... - 0 views

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    While this may not apply in all multi-cultural situations at ASF, it does relate to certain classroom situations and I was interested in the implications it has do anyone teaching in an environment where ESL practice and acculturation are primary learning goals. Excerpt "If differences in the interpretation of visual information can be identified which can be attributed to cultural background, visual material might be designed and presented taking these differences into consideration thus increasing the probability of the message intended being the message conveyed."
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