TeachingMedia

Race matters. Here's a little 101 about how to confront racism. Also known as "that thing you said is racist" versus "you are a racist" conversation.

Draft 1 of an open source video about net neutrality. WE also included the second draft edit on the DVD that includes our feature length film that we used the internet heavily to promote. For mor...

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.

Myspace confronts a young fellow who may have been cheating on it with other sites. Soon facebook and others show up for a showdown. Let the social networking wars beg.

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

Children from a deprived London housing estate were given cameras to record the detail of their daily lives - with beautiful results

"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."

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).

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

McBride concurs. "This generation, more than any other, wants to be able to participate in knowledge-not just be an audience to it." She thinks emerging professionals should spend as much time using online tools for professional knowledge and development

Calgary, AB - When looking at the values and lifestyles of North American young adults ages 18-34, there is a clear line of division: the U.S.-Canada border.