media literacy

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• MacFound: Transforming Learning in the Digital Age

  
  Communications & Legal Studies — Authority: 138
  From the MacFound November 2009 Newsletter : Today, as President Obama called for new efforts to reimagine and improve education in science and math, the MacArthur Foundation announced a $2 million open competition for creative ideas to transform learning using digital media. The competition seeks designers, ...
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• MacArthur Foundation: The Power of Youth Voice: What Kids Learn When They Create with Digital Media

  
  Communications & Legal Studies — Authority: 138
  From the website : “This video was taken from a simulcast of a public forum designed to open discussion in the Philadelphia area to educators, parents, researchers, students, and community members about the potential of learning through engagement with digital media. To bring this conversation to a larger audience, ...
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• Vote for: Green Guerillas & Farm Sanctuary

  
  Communications & Legal Studies — Authority: 138
  Well, I did!  It appears in each category, people who sign in get three votes (I voted for Farm Sanctuary under the “Animal Rights” section).  Somehow I signed in using my WordPress Account — you can use existing accounts to sign in.   If you have trouble, contact the G.G.s (info, below).  CLICK HERE TO ...
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• Media Literacy: Making Sense Of New Technologies And Media by Ge...

  
  Linux/Unix News - motd.ambians.com — Authority: 165
  In this weekly Media Literacy Digest, open education and connectivism advocate George Siemens , takes you to news and stories on emerging media, communication technologies and education-related trends, helping you make good sense of the many changes taking place around you and of how these directly impact your daily ...
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• LiteratEye #40: And Death Shall Have No Dominion, Particularly If You’re a Best-Selling Author

  
  The Art of the Prank — Authority: 500
  Here’s the fortieth installment of LiteratEye , a series found only on The Art of the Prank Blog, by W.J. Elvin III, editor and publisher of FIONA: Mysteries & Curiosities of Literary Fraud & Folly and the LitFraud blog . LiteratEye #40: And Death Shall Have No Dominion, Particularly If You’re a ...
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• Media discourse has it wrong on sexual violence: the Richmond gang rape

  
  A B O U T - F A C E --- blog — Authority: 116
  An earlier version of this article was previously posted at AAUW’s blog, Dialog . This Dolce & Gabbana ad (2007) glamorizes gang rape Most people have heard about the alleged gang rape of a teenage girl a couple weeks ago, along with many shocking and horrific aspects of the event. However, some ...
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• Extra Votes for Parents, Healthy Body Image, and Fish Art

  
  The Mother of All Parenting Blogs — Authority: 453
  Newswire Extra Votes for Parents? "If [governments] are not ready to stand up proudly and give voice to the rights of children, then they should put into place reforms that magnify the voices that already exist. The most important would be reforming an electoral system that disenfranchises all those younger than ...
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• The Social and Technological Innovations in Social Media: Video of recent panel presentations moderated by Henry Jenkins at the USC Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism

  
  Interactive Multimedia Technology — Authority: 425
  Times are changing faster than we can change the buzzwords that convey this change. Social Media. Spreadibility. Immersive Journalism.Henry Jenkins, the Provosts Professor of Communication,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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• Who’s Your Fave Fictional Male Rodel Model & Why?

  
  Shaping Youth — Authority: 122
  Nov. 17, 2009 Missed my mark on the Tuesday Packaging Boyhood post last week where I wanted to springboard from the fabulous “author’s spotlight” on Ypulse where they asked readers to share a fictional male role model they admire and why. Ypulse offered a copy of the Packaging Boyhood book ...
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• Actively Reading: OLPC Critique

  
  Disparate — Authority: 104
  Critical thinking has been on my mind, recently. For one thing, I oriented an  ”intro. to sociology” course I teach toward critical skills and methods. To me, it’s a very important part of university education, going much beyond media literacy. And media literacy is something about which I care a great deal. ...
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• 5 Tips for Raising Media-Savvy Kids!

  
  Reign of the Girl Child: Good stuff for moms of teen and preteen girls — Authority: 110
  Its like talking to a brick wall sometimes. Or having a conversation with one of the squirrels in my yard. I can chase down, corner and talk the ears off of as many people as I want, but if the message about how much of an impact media has on kids isnt getting through to the right people, its absolutely pointless. I ...
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• A Wealth of Resources! Courtesy of Me & The Nassau County Girl Scouts!

  
  Reign of the Girl Child: Good stuff for moms of teen and preteen girls — Authority: 110
  Its that time of year again. Back-to-back holidays are sucking us dry, kids are wrapping up fall sports and moving on to holiday parties and concerts, family is travelling in and out of town. Its a friggin circus around here!! So what better time to stress myself out even more by volunteering to once again be a ...
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• Swine Flu School Panic? NGC Now Offers Sick Day Media

  
  Shaping Youth — Authority: 122
  Nov. 16, 2009 Tune into the way back machine to get some pertinent media wisdom for today’s H1N1 pandemic scaring the stuffing out of young kids. See the poster at left? It was produced in 1939 at the beginning of WWII as a precautionary poster to quell panic and stiffen resolve if the Nazis succeeded in ...
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• POPE BENEDICT AND THE NEW MEDIA (HE TOTALLY GETS IT)

  
  Hell Burns — Authority: 110
  Church must adapt to the way media are impacting culture, pope says By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- New media are not just instruments for communicating, but they are having a huge impact on culture -- on the way people interact and think, Pope Benedict XVI said."This constitutes a ...
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• The Laramie Project: Using Media to Teach Tolerance 10 Years Later

  
  Shaping Youth — Authority: 122
  Nov. 13, 2009 It’s fitting that The Laramie Project premiers locally tonight in San Mateo on Friday the 13th, as the theater production resurrects a haunting melancholy on the ‘unlucky’ and fateful day young Matthew Shepard was kidnapped, severely beaten and left to die suffering for six days tied to a ...
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• Regret, Resignation and News Literacy

  
  The LAMP — Authority: 116
  Sean Hannity I’m guessing most of you heard on the news this morning that CNN anchor Lou Dobbs resigned as of last night, after much controversy over his remarks about the validity of President Obama’s birth certificate .  Also last night, Sean Hannity apologized to viewers for splicing footage from two ...
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• Media Coverage of Fort Hood: Lets talk about it

  
  The Freire Project - The Paulo and Nita Freire International Project for Critical Pedagogy — Authority: 128
  David Brooks Op-Ed in the NY Times states that Major Hasans Muslim identity was "played down"  because the media "didnt want the horror to become a pretext for anti-Muslim bigotry."  While I would dispute his assertion that Hasans Mulsim identity was "played down" (it did not seem played down at all to me), lets ...
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• Call for Manuscripts: Special issue of media literacy

  
  The Freire Project - The Paulo and Nita Freire International Project for Critical Pedagogy — Authority: 128
  I am invited to edit a special issue of New Horizons in Education, and would like to invite you to submit your manuscript to me. Details see below please. Media Literacy
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• Lou Dobbs leaves CNN

  
  Refugio's Blog — Authority: 107
  Media Matters for America has the transcript of his announcement here .  For reference, Dropdobbs.com also has a “history of hate” list here . Congratulations to all who participated and supported the bastadobbs.com and the dropdobbs.com campaigns and put pressure on CNN to fire this guy for viciously ...
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• Re-visiting Perry preschool: The story behind the story

  
  EarlyStories: On Journalism, Children and Learning — Authority: 412
  study, which examined the lives of 123 African American children who were born in poverty. The study was the first of its kind to quantify the impact a high-quality preschool program had on the lives of children, and it is still widely quoted.Over the years, EarlyStories has heard countless references to the study, ...
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