Fábio RibeiroMediaED Lab

Training course

7-16 May 2012 | Riga, Bernati, Latvia

«Media literacy is a matter of inclusion and citizenship in the

today’s information society, in order to avoid or decrease the

risks associated with life in common»

1. Access to information and communication;

2. Critical understanding of the world;

3. Creative use of media in terms of an active citizenship.

Media literacy: how is it defined?

CONTEXT

A dominant concern all over Europe, starting from the 90’s;

Group of skills and competences that citizens are able to

develop so that they can learn how media culture is

presented to the society.

Current situation

There is no school curriculum specially dedicated to

MEDIA LITERACY. Politicians seem to drive their attention

to students’ digital competences.

2001

reorganization of the curricula: Education for the Citizenship;

Information and Communication Technologies; Project Area; Civic

Education; Accompanied Study – secondary level ;

2012

Information and Communication Technologies will be excluded of

the school curricula. ‘Children do not need to learn how to work

with computers, because they already know the basic

skills’, Education Minister said.

Media Education in Booklets

free download.

Best practices - booklets

Best practices - partnerships

National Commission of UNESCO

National Council for the Education

The (state) media regulatory entity/ The Portuguese media regulator

Bureau for the Mass Media Communication

Ministry of Education

Agency for the Knowledge Society

Communication & Society Research Centre

Informal Group on Media Literacy

and Information Society - 2009

PhD thesis in Media Education

Perspectives on digital literacy in the public politics:

the case of the Educational and technological Plan: link.

Participation and digital inclusion

Best practices - Research projects

EU Kids Online Navigating with ‘Magalhães’

Media Education in Portugal:

experiences, actors and contexts

A portrait of media education activities across the country, a

critical overlook into the most significant ones and the ones that

are missing. Free download available here.

Best practices - Research projects

1st Congress of Literacy, Media and Citizenship

Braga, March 2011

A forum of discussion among 300 researchers, media

educators, government officials, teachers, theatre

clubs, libraries, students.

Important output: the Braga Declaration for Media Literacy 2011.

Available here.

Best practices - initiatives

1 – fostering the relationship between organizations and creating

action programmes to disseminate information towards media

education;

2 – establishing local, national and international partnerships;

3 – promoting a deeper knowledge of the Portuguese reality in this

field by enhancing research projects in this area;

4 – strengthening the ties among teachers and other media

professionals, trying to explain how letting people learn with mass

media is a matter of citizenship;

Best practices - Braga Declaration 2011

5 – exploring the connection between media literacy and school

curricula, based upon an up-to-date framework of how media are

build nowadays;

6 – developing accountability and participation among citizens, in a

close relationship with the state regulator;

7 – organizing national meetings to raise discussion of the present

conditions in social life that can promote this area of studies;

8 – creating a Media Literacy Observatory.

Best practices - Braga Declaration 2011

An online guide towards Media Education:

- A theoretical overview of Media Literacy;

- Political framework;

- Best practices report;

- Formation suggestions;

- (...).

Check it here (still in preparation)

Best practices - Media Literacy Observatory