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GUILLERMO OROZCO GOMEZ
DATE OF INTERVIEW: FEB. 8, 2019
INTERVIEWER: TESSA JOLLS
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“…with the years, I have come to the feeling (a feeling for now, not yet a conviction) that we, media educators, have to abandon emphasis on teaching about the media and about our ideal relationship with them, in order to emphasize how to deal and to be creative with media, and even transcend that. This includes the discussion of audience’s communication rights, on the one hand, and on the other, push audiences to be “hackers”. In this endeavor, our role as media educators would be... Read More
Developing Digital and Media Literacies in Children and Adolescents
Published in Pediatrics 2017 Kristen Hawley Turner, PhD, Tessa Jolls, BA, Michelle Schira Hagerman, PhD, William O’Byrne, PhD, Troy Hicks, PhD, Bobbie Eisenstock, PhD, Kristine E. Pytash, PhD
Abstract
In today’s global culture and economy, in which individuals have access to information at their fingertips at all times, digital and media literacy are essential to participate in society. But what specific competencies must young citizens acquire? How do these competencies influence pedagogy? How are student knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors changed? What are the best ways to assess students’ digital and media literacy? These questions underscore what parents, educators, health professionals, and community leaders need to know to ensure that youth become digitally and media... Read More
Key Questions and Core Concepts for Young Children. Deconstruction and Construction. Download here.
This is the reference material for the MediaLit Moments activity from the June 2017 issue of Connections. Translated from Japanese. The activity was created by Mya Stark of LA Maker Space. How to Make a Maker explores the world of low-tech robots and Hecobon.
LESLEY FARMER
DATE OF INTERVIEW: Wednesday, March 29, 2017
INTERVIEWER: TESSA JOLLS
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Our teachers still aren’t educated in media literacy, to this day. They still have kids doing posters, which is fine. That makes sense -- whether it’s digital or physical -- but what the teachers grade on is how neat the poster is, and did I use my glue stick right? Look at the rainbow colors! There is little sense of artistic principles, little sense of how you construct a message effectively. They have no clue to this day. Arts are still undervalued, and I guess I’m not surprised, but I’m sad.... Read More
What media literacy means in the age of alternative facts
Published by International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), April 2017. By Jennifer Snelling
Post-truth, alternative facts and fake news. Media has changed a lot since we began tweeting, but the last year has left media and its consumers in a crisis. A Pew Research study revealed that 62 percent of adults get their news from social media. We now live in a hyper-partisan world where sensational fake news often spreads faster than real news, according to a post-election BuzzFeed analysis. In this age of citizen journalism, media literacy is a confusing proposition.
Adults may assume that digital natives, who can text, post and Google at the same time, are able to sort... Read More
Dale Ann StieberOccidental College Special Collections and Archives
One day after a career as an editor and producer of film and television, I observed that most people were not empowered in our media world. It is then when Liz Thoman and the CML fortuitously came into my life. Through her guidance and passion, I evolved into a librarian to engage with my fellow citizens young and old in a new conversation on our world. Liz empowered me to consider and look beyond the power structure. I am grateful for her mentorship.
Claire KwonGraphic Artist
I met Liz in 2005 at the Center for Media... Read More
Attached is the full-length transcript of the Celebration of Life for Elizabeth Thoman in Los Angeles on February 12, 2017.
Co-hosts were Tessa Jolls, Center for Media Literacy, Sr. Rose Pacatte, Pauline Center for Media Studies, and Michael Danielson, Seattle Preparatory School. Speakers included: Renee Hobbs, Bobbie Eisenstock, Frank Dawson, Jeff Share, Michael Robb-Grieco, Erin Reilly, Sr. Rose Pacatte, Tessa Jolls, Ira Gorelick, Fr. Anthony Scanell, Elaine Scott, Clifford Cohen, Daine Olsen, Pam Dawson, Roselyn Silver and Beverly Feldman with introductions by Michael Danielson.
Videos... Read More
A Remembrance of Sr. Elizabeth Thoman
June 18, 1943 – December 22, 2016
Sister Elizabeth Thoman, CHM, died December 22, 2016 at Bishop Drumm Retirement Center in Johnston, Iowa. Elizabeth Jeanne Thoman was born to John Arthur and Gertrude Roberson and grew up in Nashville, Tennessee. She entered the Congregation of the Humility of Mary in 1964, professing vows in 1966. She graduated with a B.A. from Marycrest College and earned a Masters degree from the University of Southern California, Annenberg School of Communications and also from Immaculate Heart College in Los Angeles.
Liz Thoman... Read More
Elizabeth Thoman Memorial Announcement, Program, Prayer
St. Augustine Parish Hall, Los Angeles, CA. February 12, 2017 Program for Celebration of Life
Announcement
A Remembrance
Prayer read at Sr. Elizabeth Thoman's Memorial Celebration
Patient Trust
By Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Above all trust in the slow work of God. We are quite naturally
Impatient in everything to reach the end without delay.
We would like to skip the intermediate stages.
We are impatient of being
On the way to something unknown,
something new.
And yet it is the law of all progress
that it is made by passing through
some stages of instability.
And that it might take a very long time.
And so it is with you.
Your... Read More
Sr. Elizabeth Thoman altered the course of my life
By Sr. Rose Pacatte, Pauline Center for Media Studies Sr. Elizabeth Thoman, a member of the Congregation of the Humility of Mary and a woman religious who changed my life, died December 22 at Bishop Drumm Retirement Center in Johnston, Iowa. She was 73.
I first met Liz in 1990 in Portland, Oregon, at a meeting of Unda-USA (now SIGNIS), the Catholic association for radio and television. Liz gave a presentation on the magazine she had founded and published, Media & Values, and she spoke about media literacy: the ability to access, analyze, evaluate and create media in a variety of forms.
I had never heard of media literacy before. As a... Read More
Single page worksheet to help explain the difference between Fact and Opinion. Middle School. See MediaLit Moments Jan. 2017.
Voices of Media Literacy: International Pioneers Speak: Victor C. Strasburger, MD
VICTOR C. STRASBURGER, MD DATE OF INTERVIEW: November 19, 2015 INTERVIEWER: Tessa Jolls Rote memorization should be a thing of the past. What we need to teach is much more about critical thinking, much more about how to decipher all this information that's available on the Internet, some of which may be accurate, some of which may not be accurate -- how to deal with tweeting, and texting, and downloading, and we're simply not doing that. I think teachers are making a huge mistake. A lot of schools think if they have a computer lab and they pass out iPads to all the students, that they're keeping current, but that's just scratching the surface. Media literacy doesn't start with an R, but it has to be the fourth R." Dr. Victor Strasburger
BIOGRAPHY
Dr. Victor Strasburger is Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics Emeritus, University of New Mexico School of Medicine. He has contributed research and policy statements on children and media for more than 30 years.
Selected Questions
Why did you become involved in media education?
What influenced you to pursue this work?
Can you add some insight into the development of media literacy?
What goals did you pursue through the years, to introduce media literacy as a pediatrician?
When you look back at it, do you feel that the media literacy field itself has moved in the... Read More
How do Digital Media & Learning (DML) and Media Literacy Communities Connect? Why is it important that these communities work together towards common goals?
Henry Jenkins and Tessa Jolls on the meaning of Media Literacy and the need for a strong coalition of advocates regardless of the name. This conversation first appeared on Henry Jenkins’ blog Confessions of an Aca-Fan then in CML’s newsletter Connections (Oct/Nov. 2014). Henry: When I and other researchers from MIT wrote the 2006 white paper, Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century, we were very aware of building on the foundations of the Media Literacy movement as it had taken shape in North America over the prior several decades. We made a number of gestures across the paper, which were intended to pay tribute to what had been accomplished, to signal the continuities as well as differences to our vision for the "new media literacies." For example, early in the paper, we emphasized that the newer skills and... Read More
A cache of artifacts useful for K-12 teachers, university academics, librarians, and community leaders mark the completion of the first US Media Literacy Week in Los Angeles, which was held November 2-6, 2015. Events throughout the week highlighted the power of media literacy education and its essential role in education today.
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Voices of Media Literacy: International Pioneers Speak: Dorothy Singer Interview Transcript
DOROTHY G. SINGER DATE: July 18, 2015 INTERVIEWER: Tessa Jolls Mediation means effort on the part of the parent, but it does pay off. We found those parents that were the good mediators, who did a lot of talking with their children, had children that were performing much better on all kinds of tests that we gave. So my advice would be: Talk, talk, talk to your children! Read to them at night, read a story before they go to bed, don’t let them watch TV and then put them to bed. Talk about the TV programs you see, set rules about the number of hours you can watch TV, preview the programs your children watch so that you are sure that it is safe and good for them. If you do that early on, by the time your child is 10, 12, 13, you know that you have a child who is much more discriminating about the kind of TV that he or she will watch than a child who never had that mediating exposure." Dorothy Singer BIOGRAPHYDorothy G. Singer, Senior Research Scientist, Department of Psychology, Yale University (retired)
Selected Questions
How did you become involved in your work and in media education?
What were some next steps in your research and your goals?
What were some other surprises along the way?
Were you able to study parents at all?
How far do you feel the field has come along? Do you feel like it’s gone in a direction you like to see?
What has been your experience in dealing with the surrounding production and policy landscape that your research has informed?
What would you like... Read More
“Successful media education results not so much from what is taught as how it is taught.”
Chris Worsnop, Screening Images: Ideas for Media Education
The final aspect of the basic MediaLit Kit™ framework is the Empowerment Spiral which outlines a way to participate in the media world and to organize media literacy learning, especially in a class or group setting. Also called “Action Learning” the model has proven to be an excellent process for uncorking a spiral of inquiry that leads to increased comprehension, greater critical thinking and ability to make informed judgments. It is these... Read More
The Core Concepts: Fundamental to Media Literacy Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
By Tessa Jolls and Carolyn Wilson The Core Concepts: Fundamental to Media Literacy
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
By Tessa Jolls and Carolyn Wilson
Media literacy has survived through the years largely as a grass-roots movement which, slowly but surely, has developed around the world (Walkosz, Jolls and Sund 2008). While it has often been present on the “margins” of school curriculum, thanks to the steadfast support of global organizations such as UNESCO, media literacy continues to gain recognition and legitimacy worldwide. Yet because media literacy is rarely institutionalized in education systems and not taught... Read More
Gaining media literacy skills while producing media messages about nutrition is now possible using CML’s
curriculum: Breakfast Epiphanies. Students learn to discern meaningful nutrition information using online
resources, while also working as a team to create healthful messages using technology tools.
Using CML’s reliable methodology, featuring the Core Concepts and Key Questions for both deconstruction
and construction (called Questions/TIPS or Q/TIPS), forms the basis for this five-lesson curriculum. This
curriculum exemplifies how to teach critical thinking as students create their... Read More
Smoke Detectors! Product Flyer
A research-based approach to media literacy and health education incorporating national standards Media literacy offers an effective and engaging health intervention strategy for reaching students. Utilizing CML’s research-based framework, students learn to deconstruct media depictions of smoking and how product placement works. Smoke Detectors! also teaches students to identify smoking incidents in media using a method developed by the American Cancer Society. With these tools, students are better prepared to make informed choices about smoking.
Educator Guide and Student Book with media DVD (Five Lessons, Common Core State Standards, National Health and Technology Standards) $199.
For... Read More
Evaluation of a school-based violence prevention media literacy curriculum
This is a longitudinal study published in Injury Prevention, online August 2013. Kathryn Fingar, Tessa Jolls The purpose of the study was to evaluate whether CML's Beyond Blame, a violence prevention media literacy curriculum, is associated with improved knowledge, beliefs and behaviors related to media use and aggression. Study conducted by Southern California Injury Prevention Research Center at UCLA.
Access the article here.
Conducting a Close Analysis
Step by step instructions for conducting a close analysis of a media text. Worksheets included. CML Framework Part I, Description; Part II, Interpretation
Objective: To teach students to look closely at how a media message is put together and the many interpretations that can derive from it; to teach students to analyze and to know the difference between describing an event with evidence and facts, and interpreting an event using opinions and judgments.
Description: Two worksheets are provided for students to complete while learning to conduct a close analysis of a media text. Students view video excerpts and answer questions about what they see and hear, and how it influences what the message is “... Read More
Dear Len,
I am sorry to see that my paper “Sabretooth Tigers and Polar Bears”, presented to the AMES Conference in Scotland in 1999, has offended you so much that you feel obliged to produce a 106-page booklet, “Down Cemetery Road”, not only to refute what it says but also to mount a general attack on the educational activity of the BFI over the last 15 years. It is to this last area that I must respond promptly, since it contains a number of serious errors, not only of fact but also of contextual understanding. Whether your assessment of my own work as flimsy and contradictory is just or not... Read More