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MediaShift . The Importance and Challenges of Universal Media Literacy Education | PBS - 0 views

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    "As long as media literacy education was about television, it was perceived to be fluff," she said. "But when the Internet came along, kids didn't know how to cite sources online, and they were creating publicly visible content in their own homes without their parents' knowledge...which sparked serious safety concerns."\n\nIf Thoman and her colleagues' work over the past half century can be credited with establishing media literacy as an academic subject, it's possible that the digital media revolution will catalyze this subject's introduction into the mainstream curriculum.\n\nThat reality seemed closer when, in May, my former boss Sen. John Kerry, along with Senators Rockefeller and Snowe, introduced the "21st Century Skills Incentive Fund Act" into the Senate. The bill recognizes that, in order to prepare students for the modern workforce, education must go beyond core curricula and teach "critical thinking and problem solving skills, communication skills, creativity and innovation skills, collaboration skills, contextual learning skills, and information and media literacy skills."
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    in high school courses, 'media' is often taught by visual artists or English teachers. Very rarely by those who have worked in media, the web or technical capacities (as production based degrees are not counted towards core curriculum areas: history, english, math, computer science, french, phys ed, etc).
anonymous

Media Meltdown: a media literacy comic for kids Boing Boing - 0 views

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    Orca Books sent me a review copy of Media Meltdown, a graphic novel about media literacy for kids, written by Liam O'Donnell and illustrated by Mike Deas.
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    Orca Books sent me a review copy of Media Meltdown, a graphic novel about media literacy for kids, written by Liam O'Donnell and illustrated by Mike Deas.
anonymous

[Books] Media Meltdown - A Graphic Guide Adventure by Liam O'Donnell - 0 views

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    Little do they realize that when it comes to the news and the advertisers who make it possible, the truth is not always part of the story and nothing can be taken at face value. While learning about media consolidation and the power of money over truth, Bounce, Pema and Jagroop decide to take on the developers and the media.
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Virtual Community and Social Media concept map | Howard Rheingold - 0 views

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    A great concept map that includes a number of the more elusive aspects of social media not typically addressed in the commercial (e.g., marketing, pr, business, startups, celebrity culture, corporate media) sphere.
anonymous

Beyond McLuhan: Your New Media Studies Syllabus - Christina Dunbar-Hester - Technology ... - 0 views

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    "Here, she walks you through her PhD-level class on technology and media. Along the way, she distills a quarter century of academic work that goes far beyond pop culture's standard takes on how our world changes."
anonymous

open thinking » 80+ Videos for Tech. & Media Literacy - 0 views

  • 10. An Anthropological Introduction to Youtube – Professor Michael Wesch’s presentation to the Library of Congress, June 23rd, 2008. The video is over 55 minutes long but is informative and engaging throughout. 11. The Machine is Us/ing Us – “Web 2.0 in just under 5 minutes”, explained by the Digital Ethnography Project at Kansas State University (Wesch). The video helps to illustrate important changes brought by Web 2.0 (read/write web, social web) as content and form became separated. 12. A Vision of Students Today – Another excellent video by Michael Wesch and his group that summarizes some of the most important characteristics of students today.
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      Three of my favourites from this list!
  • 71. Star Wars Kid – The Star Wars kid is likely the best known cyberbullying event ever documented. This original leaked video spawned dozens of users on the web to create parodies, seen by millions, which ultimately resulted in the boy featured in the videos to quit school and enter a psychiatric ward.
  • 41. Social Networks in Plain English – This is one of many excellent Common Craft ‘explanation’ videos. It does a great job of explaining digital social networks to those unfamiliar.
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  • This amazing mashup by Ophir Kutiel (known as Kutiman) is part of the thru-you project. The mashup consists of dozens of youtube clips aligned together to create original music.
  • 21. RiP: A Remix Manifesto – This is an inspiring, open source documentary that explores copyright and remix culture. Individuals are able to contribute to the film, or just enjoy the information and stories it has to offer. This is an important film for those wishing to understand the battleground of intellectual property as it relates to our emerging generation.
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      The website offers tools to make your own remix videos
  • 79. Century of the Self – This acclaimed documentary tracks the work of Freud throughout the 20th century as it changed the perception of the human mind, spawned applications of public relations, and formed the roots of consumerism. This is an excellent backgrounder for teachers of media.
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      Fantastic. A must view.
  • 83. Manufacturing Consent – This Canadian documentary, based on the Chomsky/Herman book by the same name, explores the propaganda model of media.
  • 88. Outfoxed – This Robert Greenwald documentary criticizes Fox News Channel and its owner Rupert Murdoch, “claiming that the channel is used to promote and advocate right-wing views.” The documentary argues that through contradicting their own mantra of being “Fair and Balanced”, Fox is engaging in “consumer fraud”.
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    Over the past few years, I have been collecting interesting Internet videos that would be appropriate for lessons and presentations, or personal research, related to technological and media literacy. Here are 70+ videos organized into various sub-categories. These videos are of varying quality, cross several genres, and are of varied suitability for classroom use.
anonymous

In defence of media studies | Education | guardian.co.uk - 0 views

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    How do we judge if a subject is easy or difficult? Condemnation of media studies reflects a fundamental confusion about its aims
anonymous

"Street Crawl" Gallery (York Media AQ Project) - 0 views

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    This is a selection of images taken with a 1.3 megapixel cell phone camera for a professional development media teaching course I'm taking. The object was to collect media of a specific location. We were assigned to Church street, which is the heart of Toronto's gay community and other urban locations.
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    The purpose of this project was to document a public location using only the technology we have access to. Since my good camera is out of commission, I used my cell phone (which has very limited image capability). Despite my "low tech" gear, I managed to get some decent pictures - mostly due to techniques (cropping and moving the camera to eliminate need for focus) and some minor tweeks in Irfanview, changing colour to B&W and pushing up the contrast. Most of our time was spent walking down Church street which is the heart of Toronto's gay community - thus all the LGBTQ content. We ended our walk in China town - unfortunately only two images (we were tired and it was cold!)
anonymous

Curriculum Unit Planner: Media Arts Open (Ontario) - 0 views

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    Complete unit planner for Media Arts Open courses
anonymous

Empowering Youth-directed Learning in a Digital Age | DMLcentral - 0 views

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    "Each portfolio is personally curated by youth like Tashawna to offer an audio and visual tour of their social media productions that highlights the literacies developed through each social media project. This stands in contrast to the Digital Transcript, which is official and controlled by Global Kids."
anonymous

A history of media technology scares, from the printing press to Facebook. - By Vaughan... - 0 views

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    "A history of media technology scares, from the printing press to Facebook."
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How Fox North became Harper's priority | rabble.ca - 0 views

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    "the media already blasts Canadians with a steady chorus of right-wing ideas. "A Fox-style network here - if Harper gets his way - would turn that into a deafening cacophony.""
anonymous

What Americans Do Online: Social Media And Games Dominate Activity | Nielsen Wire - 0 views

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    "Online games overtook personal email to become the second most heavily used activity behind social networks - accounting for 10 percent of all U.S. Internet time. Email dropped from 11.5 percent of time to 8.3 percent."
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Ian Bogost - Art History of Games: Video - 1 views

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    "Back in February, Georgia Tech Digital Media and SCAD Atlanta held the Art History of Games conference, which I organized along with Michael Nitsche and John Sharp. We had an amazing group of speakers as well as an opening for three commissioned games"
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Cyberpigs game teaches kids about privacy, identity online | Privacy Playground - 0 views

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    The purpose of the game is to teach kids how to spot online marketing strategies, protect their personal information and avoid online predators.
anonymous

Professor Rheingold's PP alternatives | Social Media CoLab - 0 views

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    Lots of other things to use for presenting these days beyond powerpoint. A good collection for students or teachers.
anonymous

[video] Howard Rheingold on essential media literacies - 0 views

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    He also talks about focused attention vs. multitasking and the importance of being able to handle an array of tasks simultaneously.
anonymous

[video] Introduction to social bookmarking: Howard Rheingold's Vlog - 0 views

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    The third in a series of videos documenting my use of social media in my personal and professional life. This installment introduces social bookmarking. My del.icio.us account is hrheingold.
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