media and learning: networks for training and development
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Renee HobbsProfessor of Communication StudiesDirector, Media Education LabHarrington School of Communication and MediaUniversity of Rhode Island USATWITTER: @reneehobbs
Digital and Media Literacy
BRUSSELS 10-11 March 16
www.MediaEducationLab.com
Media systems are expanding
Literacy is expanding
Media literacy is an expanded conceptualization of literacy
Listening+
Speaking
Reading+
Writing
Analyzing Media
+Creating Media
Literacy is the sharing of meaning through symbols
ANALYZE CREATE
Digital Media Literacy Smartphone
When creating media, you use language, images and sounds to represent people, ideas and events
What happens when people learn to critically analyze and create media?
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Increases learner motivation & engagement
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Promotes collaboration and creativity
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Develops language skills
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Inspires confidence to ask questions & share ideas
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Improves content knowledgeacross the curriculum
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How Do How Attitudes towards News Media, Media Literacy and Video Production
Contribute to Adolescent Civic Engagement?
Promotes intercultural communication
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Promotes reflective thinking about communication ethics
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Connects classroom and communityRese
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AUTHORSHIP
Creative skillsCollaboration skills
Technical skills
MEDIA ANALYSIS SKILLS
Comprehension
Identify Purpose
RecognizePoint of View
ATTITUDES
Giving & Receiving Feedback
Intellectual Curiosity
CIVIC ENGAGEMENT
Sign an online petition
Express an opinion to news
media
Blog about an issue
Write an opinion letter
QUALITY OF MEDIA CHOICES
Increases civic engagement
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Prepares learners for an unknowable future
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Key Concepts of Media Literacy
Media Literacy Educators Advance People’s Life Skills
Media Literacy as a Civic Competency
Media education is an essential step in the long march towards a truly participatory democracy, and the democratization of our institutions. Widespread media literacy is essential if all citizens are to wield power, make rational decisions, become effective change agents,and have an effective involvement with the media.
-Len Masterman, 1985
Questioning All Forms of Authority
Media literacy, because it emphasizes a critique of textual authority, invites students to identify the cultural codes that structure an author’s work, understand how these codes function as partof a social system, and disrupt the text through alternative interpretations. In learning to critically read media messages, citizens are developing the abilities togather accurate, relevant information about their society and to question authority (both textual and, by implication, institutional).
- Renee Hobbs, 1998
Agents of Social Change
When people have digital and media literacy competencies, they recognize personal, corporate and political agendas and are empowered to speak out on behalf of the missing voices and omitted perspectives in our communities. By identifying and attempting to solve problems, people use their powerful voices and their rights under law to improve the worldaround them.
-Renee Hobbs, 2010
Digital Media Literacy Smartphone
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Summer Institute in Digital LiteracyJuly 24 – 29, 2016
Providence RI
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CONTACT INFORMATION:Renee Hobbs Professor of Communication StudiesDirector, Media Education LabHarrington School of Communication & MediaUniversity of Rhode Island USAEmail: [email protected]: @reneehobbs
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