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Coordinated by ARC Fund Duration: 2016 — 2017 This project aims to increase the democratization of public life in Bulgaria through the development of early digital and media literacy in children — these are skills, without which the participation in today's public and political life is not possible.

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Even if I agree for the sake of argument that books are precious snowflakes, it doesn't follow that Amazon is therefore obliged to sell them at all, much less sell them on equal terms to the books of Publishers who do have a contract.That this argument gets any coverage at all underscores the desperate need for improved media literacy in this country.

3) The Media Literacy in Every Classroom Quick Reference Guide published by and available on the ASCD (Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development) website will also be sold at a discount during the entire week.

Teaching media literacy in its multiple forms requires our students to focus on all of the messy elements of deconstruction, production, and multiple meanings.

Experts make the case for media literacy in education.

a series of free resources developed by MediaSmarts to help educators better understand and facilitate media literacy in their classrooms.

The plan features a strategy to ensure all students and staff members are proficient in information, technology, and media literacy in order to be successful in the global community.

This kind of technology provides another way for us to teach information and media literacy in the classroom.

As a parent herself, she believes parents play a powerful role in teaching media literacy in their homes.

Educators can promote news media literacy in schools, Craft said, and journalists can play a part «by being more open about how they do what they do.»

Encourage the development of a course in media literacy in your public school system: at elementary, junior high, and high school levels.

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At a similar panel in New York earlier in January that was dedicated to technology and media in the 2016 election, top journalists from legacy media organizations like the Associated Press and new media organizations like the data - journalism website FiveThirtyEight picked over the carcass of the election, pondering why data analysts misjudged Trump's electoral strength and how readers themselves often didn't necessarily possess the media literacy to sift through fake and poorly reported news.

The actress and political activist details the ways she unsuccessfully combated traumatic online harassment and offered other solutions, including improving digital media literacy and ending sexism in tech companies.

The media literacy campaign comes as deliberate attempts to disseminate false or misleading stories have seeped not only into the political and diplomatic landscape in Kenya but also into the news cycle and the corporate world.

They are facing a serious decline in finances (the economic displacement brought by changing media) and their membership is taking on the definite demographics of the specific sub-culture of older literacy, ie.

This state of affairs can be only partially encouraging, however, for the increasing worldwide popularity of TV has been accompanied by a steady decrease in reading (and in nations where the literacy rate is low, television can have an instant impact on people who have never read a newspaper or magazine) At any rate, recent research has concluded that of all media, newspapers do the best job of presenting a satisfactory image of aging.

In this connection we can appreciate the need and significance of economics, literacy, computer literacy, use of media so as not to be brainwashed by the systemic forces, and dominant orthodoxies.

In previous chapters I have suggested what concerned citizens can do to deal with television without censorship: create local television councils and community action to get stations to accept their responsibility for the public welfare; introduce media education courses in the schools and churches to create media literacy; organize community groups to develop programs relating to community issues on the «narrowcast» media of cable - TV, videocassettes, low - power TV, public - broadcasting facilities, and commercial side - band channels; employ stockholder action and other economic measureIn previous chapters I have suggested what concerned citizens can do to deal with television without censorship: create local television councils and community action to get stations to accept their responsibility for the public welfare; introduce media education courses in the schools and churches to create media literacy; organize community groups to develop programs relating to community issues on the «narrowcast» media of cable - TV, videocassettes, low - power TV, public - broadcasting facilities, and commercial side - band channels; employ stockholder action and other economic measurein the schools and churches to create media literacy; organize community groups to develop programs relating to community issues on the «narrowcast» media of cable - TV, videocassettes, low - power TV, public - broadcasting facilities, and commercial side - band channels; employ stockholder action and other economic measures.

She is finishing her M.A. in Media Literacy Education, has a B.A. in theology and philosophy from St. John's University, NYC, studied screenwriting at UCLA and Act One, Hollywood, and holds a Certificate in Pastoral Youth Ministry.

As Madeline Levine persuasively contended in her most recent post, an essential job of parenting in our (especially electronic) media - saturated society is teaching media literacy.

I think encouraging and even forcing them to think about it through conversations at home, media literacy courses in schools or empowerment workshops or projects that require them to look critically at what is happening around them is essential.

In addition to her work as a consultant for many PBS children's series, she was the founding president of the National Association for Media Literacy Education.

It is vital that we help them develop digital media literacy skills and guide them how to use technology in a safe and responsible way.

It is curious that - in a world verging on the infamous reality «simulacrum», where facts and representations merge into one seamless flow of sensory stimulation - media - literacy does not figure yet in the school curriculum.

Likewise, conservatives with higher news media literacy were less likely to believe five conspiracy theories commonly associated with conservatives — among them that Barack Obama was not born in the U.S., that global warming is a hoax, and that the 2010 health care law authorized government panels to make end - of - life decisions for people on Medicare.

«Instead of engaging in a technological rat race with extremists, we should consider incorporating critical literacies — including digital media, anti-racism and social justice — into school curricula as an alternative strategy.»

The researchers found that liberals with higher news media literacy were less likely to believe any or all of the five liberal conspiracy theories — among them that the federal government knew about the 9/11 terrorist attacks beforehand, that Republicans stole the 2004 presidential election through voter fraud in Ohio, and that there's a link between childhood vaccines and autism.

The researchers surveyed nearly 400 participants online in spring 2016 to gauge how their news media literacy — measured as a combination of news media knowledge and psychological traits connected with processing news messages — might relate to their endorsement of conspiracy theories.

The researchers can then use this data to refine techniques for increasing media literacy and fake news resilience in a «post-truth» world.

Guest blogger Cathy Knutson, an elementary school librarian and media specialist, suggests a summer home study in digital literacy for parents who want to teach their children safe, smart Internet research skills.

Perhaps a teachable moment — the opportunity to contextualize violence in a frame of empathy and media literacy — is being lost.

Every morning, students immerse themselves in a program that uses the language and techniques of drama, dance, music, and visual and media arts to explore literacy and numeracy.

In addition, weaving in good media literacy and skills for navigating the new waters of the Web helps us alIn addition, weaving in good media literacy and skills for navigating the new waters of the Web helps us alin good media literacy and skills for navigating the new waters of the Web helps us all.

To ensure that her students were engaged, New York teacher Lauren Leigh Kelly also designed a Hip - Hop Literature and Culture class, «to engage students in the study of hip - hop texts, including songs, films, and music videos, as a means to develop media literacy and critical - analysis skills.»

In one of CERG's recent studies, students were 26 percent more likely to correctly identify accurate and inaccurate news stories after a course on media literacy, even if those news stories supported their preconceived beliefs.

One critical issue to keep in mind when sharing and discussing these videos with your students is media literacy, including general Internet reliability.

Well - facilitated classroom discussions about controversies offer «high - leverage opportunities to help our students hone their critical thinking skills,» says Sox Sperry of Project Look Sharp, a nonprofit at Ithaca College in New York that promotes media literacy.

Ito, an expert in young people's use of digital media, shares her research on informal learning in online communities, where students can build technology skills, learn media literacy, and create and share their work.

Then, walk students through the six criteria in Improving Media Literacy.

And while we should not undervalue the skills students have developed, such as interacting on social media, their digital literacy has gone backwards in recent years, and it is unclear that they have developed any deeper understanding of computing.

Far from the stern and shushing stereotype, teacher librarians and library media specialists are poised to become key innovators and advocates for multiple literacies in our schools as we move forward.

SYN's websmarts project has explored how increased digital literacy and media education can assist young people in navigating the online world.

«Expanding the Literacy Toolbox: New Media in the Classroom,» in Literacy Research Paper (with A. Meyer), (1996)

Australia's first Media Literacy Week, an initiative of ABC Education, is scheduled to be held in September.

Hip - hop based education (HHBE) research started near the end of the 20th century, as scholars recognized that hip - hop could, in the words of Roderic Land and David Stovall, «engage youth in social discourse, which fosters critical thinking and academic and media literacy.»

There have been criticism of some versions of scientific literacy that emphasise interpretation of science in the media or to inform health decisions — rather than «doing» science.

Last year, we highlighted some interesting statistics from the International Computer and Information Literacy Study about the use of social media in the classroom.