This issue focuses on the 2016 presidential election, where technology is going and the challenges that we face in teaching about it. CML interviewed two media literacy advocates – Stephen Balkam from Family Online Safety Institute and Tara O’Gorman, a teacher from a media literacy magnet school in New York. Also includes resources and MediaLit Moments Activity on Fake News. This is Part 1 of a series on Citizenship in the Digital Age.
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Publication Date:October, 2016
This month we continue to explore Education and The Creative Economy by featuring exciting initiatives being undertaken in Australia, where media literacy is now embedded in the national curriculum through media arts, and where the Australian government has prioritized supporting and growing the creative economy. CML interviewed two Australian education/media literacy leaders, one who works in higher education – Michael Dezuanni -- and the other in secondary education, Roger Dunscombe.
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Publication Date:September, 2016
How is education tied to the creative economy? One of the answers is obvious--the 4 C’s of creativity, collaboration, communication and critical thinking. These are skills encouraged through media literacy and deployed by workers in the creative economy, from publishing and printing to furniture and decorative arts. This issue discusses Richard Florida’s pathbreaking book The Rise of the Creative Classes, and show how workers in the creative industries have shaped the nature of work for many in the U.S. Also included is a short introduction to teaching for creativity in the K-12 classroom, followed by an article with two particularly vivid and well-conceived examples. Our Resources section offer highlights from Yong Zhao’s World Class Learners: Educating Creative and Entrepreneurial Students.
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Publication Date:July, 2016
We explore the connections between media literacy and computational thinking through an interview with computational thinker and advocate Robert M. Panoff from Shodor Education Foundation. This issue covers What is computational thinking? And, the intersections between computational thinking, journalism, and media literacy.
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Publication Date:June, 2016
Navigating the media and information landscape of crowdfunded projects requires skills possessed by media literate consumers and producers. This issue examines the roles and motivations for crowdfunding as well as the social and political uses.
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Publication Date:May, 2016
This issue continues our theme of Children and Media Literacy. This month we publish an article Media Literacy Education: A Preschool Imperative for Building Resiliency by a panel of four experts who engaged in an online and offline commentary, which they edited collaboratively. Adding to the discussion is a visual model culminating their thinking and crafted in conjunction with an experienced media literacy visual designer and teacher, to represent how media literacy, and social and emotional literacies relate to the preschool experience and to building preschool children’s resiliency.
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Publication Date:April, 2016This issue of Connections features a recent Voices of Media Literacy interview with media literacy pioneer and pediatrician Victor C. Strasburger, MD, Professor Emeritus, University of New Mexico School of Medicine. Dr. Strasburger has researched children and media for more than 30 years. He shares his insights and hopes for the future. CML's Voices of Media Literacy project documents the history of media literacy through interviews with more than 20 pioneers in the field. The MediaLit Moments activity is The Art and Craft of Magazine Covers.Download Newsletter:
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Publication Date:March, 2016
In this issue of Connections, we discuss the art and craft of documentary, a genre which utilizes techniques that differ widely from fiction film, including investigation and presentation of evidence, interviews, moral inquiry, calls to action, presentation of human relationships for emotional impact, and much more. The MediaLit Moments activity is He Named Me Malala. The activity uses the 2015 documentary of the same name.
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Publication Date:February, 2016
This issues examines the role of journalism in society and how the role is changing. Includes articles on Post-Industrial Journalism and Journalism and Public Participation in Democratic Discourse.
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Publication Date:January, 2016
This issue explores the classroom and library activities of media literacy-oriented schools with information and interviews from the teachers and librarians themselves.
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