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Submitted by: Tessa Jolls President and CEO Center for Media Literacy
24-28 June, Moscow, Russian Federation
ABSTRACT
Media Literacy: The Foundation for Anywhere, Anytime Learning
Today’s global media promote values, behaviors and products through common television programs, music, film, websites, games, apps and social media, yet audiences are unprepared to filter this information with common tools for discernment that are widely taught and understood. Media literacy is well-suited to fill this void, since it offers a consistent framework for critical analysis that provides the agency that is needed in addressing media and information. In... Read More
Media Literacy: A System for Learning Anytime, Anywhere : Part 2 Deconstruction/Construction
Tessa Jolls President and CEO Center for Media Literacy
Deconstruction and Construction
With the pace of technological change, the U.S. education system is under unprecedented and much-needed pressure to creatively reinvent itself. This process is now underway, with new models for teaching and learning beginning to emerge like blooming flowers across a desert landscape. The change that technology is bringing is revolutionary, not evolutionary, and it affects all stakeholders – students, teachers, administrators, parents, employers and citizens. Technology affords new understanding and new approaches to education as the global village becomes... Read More
Media Literacy: A System for Learning Anytime, Anywhere : Part 1 Change Management
Tessa Jolls President and CEO Center for Media Literacy Media Literacy: Change Management
"In preparation for landing, please turn off your books!" the flight attendant announced to passengers busy with their e-readers in an April 2010 New Yorker cartoon. Hmmm….imagine that! Now imagine library shelves being…..empty. Or think of homes with bric-a-brac lining shelves and occasional displays of antiques, otherwise known as…. books. Or of schools with….no walls. Or of students with….no backpacks.
And of course, these changes are just the beginning. What was scarce in the past is now plentiful: access to information. What was plentiful in the past is... Read More
JEAN-PIERRE GOLAY
DATE OF INTERVIEW: Sunday, August 28, 2011
INTERVIEWER: Marieli Rowe
BIOGRAPHY OF JEAN-PIERRE GOLAY
Jean-Pierre Golay, former director of the Centre d’Initiation aux Communications de Masse (CIC), Lausanne, Switzerland, pioneered media literacy programs during the Nazi era, uncovering the power of propaganda and introducing the first educational television programs in Switzerland. He is now retired and living in Madison, Wisconsin.
Note from JP Golay: The essay below is based on an interview by Marieli Rowe on August 28, 2011. The responses have been modified... Read More
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July 22, 2011
For more information:
Tessa Jolls, CML
310-804-3985
tjolls@medialit.com
For Immediate Release:
Voices of Media Literacy, a project representing the individual points of view of 20... Read More
Voices of Media Literacy: Presentation at NAMLE 2011
Presented by Tessa Jolls, Dee Morgenthaler, Barbara Walkosz
Click here to access the PDF of presentation slides.
MARIELI ROWE
INTERVIEWERS: DEE MORGENTHALER AND TESSA JOLLS
DATE OF FINAL INTERVIEW: THURSDAY, JUNE 9, 2011
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I have an ultimate goal to take away the word media because reading and writing have always been a goal of all education - becoming literate. And what we are using today is just a new pen and a new book… It seems to me that if we could get to the point where the word “literacy” means all of the media, and it pervades our education, and a goal for a healthy society is to be literate and that includes all of the media -- then I think we won’t need... Read More
ROBYN QUIN
DATE OF INTERVIEW: Tuesday, March 22, 2011
INTERVIEWER: TESSA JOLLS
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There is so much emphasis on the kids getting their work to look really good and polished that you see a lot of derivative work; that instead of creating something new and exciting they are copying the forms they see in the popular media and trying to get them looking as polished as feature films, music videos, etc. So I don’t see much of creative imagination or using the media as a form of critical analysis or analysis of... Read More
CARY BAZALGETTE
DATE: OCTOBER 13, 2010
INTERVIEWER: DEE MORGENTHALER
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We have a serious lack of good evidence about teaching and learning and an excess of optimistic assertion about what people have done in classrooms and what effect they think it has had. Until we gather better, more objective and more sustained evidence about media teaching and learning, we can’t make judgments about what movement is going on or in what direction...
I believe, however, that the biggest challenge that faces us is how to establish media education as a normal... Read More
RENEE CHEROW-O’LEARY
DATE OF INTERVIEW: Tuesday, November 23, 2010
INTERVIEWER: DEE MORGENTHALER
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I think the most important question might be, where is media literacy going? It is wonderful to know that there is a new generation coming up with new ideas that will invigorate media literacy and media studies.
BIOGRAPHY OF RENEE CHEROW-O’LEARY
Renée Cherow-O’Leary is President of Education for the 21st Century, a media consulting group in New York City which develops curriculum and educational materials primarily for children, parents and teachers... Read More
DAVID CONSIDINE
DATE OF INTERVIEW: Mon, July 12, 2010
INTERVIEWER: DEE MORGENTHALER
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I came very early to believe that interested kids did not have behavior problems...
A lot of the kids that I taught would have been regarded as, using an Australian phrase, “no hopers.” My belief was not that they were “no hopers” but it was just that school did not engage them.
If it is relevant to them, if it’s got something to do with their life and connects the classroom to the real world then they get involved. So, in many ways I stumbled into media... Read More
MARILYN COHEN
DATE OF INTERVIEW: Friday, March 4, 2011
INTERVIEWER: TESSA JOLLS
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When I look at the media today and I look at all the different factions and the media literacy movement, as you might call it, it just seems that some of us are at cross-purposes with each other rather than working together towards that which we are all trying to accomplish. There is such a need to work together; so many people in our country have no idea what this is all about. And yet people really need to know, and people, once they do know get excited, and go off in their own... Read More
DAVID BUCKINGHAM
DATE OF INTERVIEW: Friday, Oct. 29, 2010
INTERVIEWER: DEE MORGENTHALER
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Today, seven year-olds can edit films on i-movie or any other program. And in our research they are doing that. There is a danger of them confusing media education with technology. People think that if they are doing things with technology then they are doing media education and they’re not. What they are doing is a very instrumental use of technology which is very uncritical and unthinking. It is driven by technology hype - over-excited view of the wonders of technology... Read More
ROBERT KUBEY
INTERVIEW DATE: Thursday, April 14, 2011
INTERVIEWER: DEE MORGENTHALER
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I used to say... I don’t care so much that kids were spending three hours a day with television, I care about what television they were choosing to look at.
BIOGRAPHY OF ROBERT KUBEY
Robert Kubey is Professor and Director of the Center for Media Studies in the Department of Journalism and Media Studies at the School of Communication and Information at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. His latest book is “Creating Television: Conversations with the People Behind 50... Read More
ELIZABETH THOMAN
DATE OF INTERVIEW: Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2011
INTERVIEWER: TESSA JOLLS
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Until the internet came along, everything was about television. As long as media literacy was about television, it could be dismissed as not being very important because television was not being used by educated people (or so they say!). But as soon as the internet hit everyday grassroots families, then we transformed into a totally different culture – and media literacy became a critical skill for learning to live in that mediated culture.
BIOGRAPHY... Read More
BARRIE MCMAHON
DATE OF INTERVIEW: Monday, March 21, 2011
INTERVIEWER: TESSA JOLLS
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Over time, we’re asking students to be critical of everything and to constructively be critical of whatever they like, to search for how to make sense of the world. How do you construct meaning? That’s really the position in the various contests over the ideologies that were competing. I guess that’s the area that we reached eventually: The focus of media education is a sense-making process, or the making of meaning. And to me, as an educator, that was the critical factor, that was the... Read More
JAMES POTTER
DATE OF INTERVIEW: Tuesday, April 26, 2011
INTERVIEWER: TESSA JOLLS
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If you read a book every two minutes and never slept for a year then you’d be able to get through almost all the books published in the United States this year. And that’s just books; you wouldn’t be able to watch TV, surf the Internet or text friends. We cannot possibly keep up with all media, so media literacy cannot be concerned with helping people keep up. Instead media literacy has to be more concerned with helping people use the media well to satisfy their own personal needs. We need... Read More
NEIL ANDERSEN
DATE OF INTERVIEW: Friday, March 4, 2011
INTERVIEWER: TESSA JOLLS
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I invite my students to talk. In fact, I think talk is really underrated in school and I would have extended conversations with my students, whatever the issue or technology that we were discussing because, as they talked, they had to think through their relationships, their values, and their uses of things. So the talk was very useful and powerful that way, and it was also developing their ability to think and express themselves. It was a win-win in many ways.
So they would... Read More
CHRIS WORSNOP
DATE OF INTERVIEW: THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2011
INTERVIEWER: TESSA JOLLS
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Modern culture is no longer exclusively print-based. I insist on that word “exclusively”. It’s still very much print-based, but in the 19th century when a lot of our educational institutions were formed, and our institutional assumptions were created, our culture was almost exclusively print-based and it made sense for our education to be print-based. But that doesn’t make sense anymore.
It hasn’t made sense for quite a long time. I reckon any culture that wants to thrive should really educate... Read More
BARRY DUNCAN
INTERVIEW DATE:MAY 23, 2010
INTERVIEWED BY: DEE MORGENTHALER
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…the notion of “representation.” That is the central concept of media literacy. Because it is how we are represented and how we represent ourselves, or re-present ourselves. And that notion is being propelled through the decades -- through the '60s to today -- and it is central that how well we talk about representation largely determines the nature of how GOOD our media literacy is. So, representation, the core principles -- what we in Canada call the Key Concepts – by having those key... Read More
LEN MASTERMAN
DATE OF INTERVIEW: NOV. 3, 2010
INTERVIEWER: DEE MORGENTHALER
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“…you can teach about the media most effectively, not through a content-centered approach, but through the application of a conceptual framework which can help pupils to make sense of any media text. And that applies every bit as much to the new digitized technologies as it did to the old mass media…The acid test of whether a media course has been successful resides in students’ ability to respond critically to media texts they will encounter in the future. Media education is nothing if it... Read More
KATHLEEN TYNER
DATE OF INTERVIEW: Thursday, September 23, 2010
INTERVIEWER: DEE MORGENTHALER
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When you define a field, it has certain characteristics before it becomes a field. One of these characteristics is an agreement on professional practices -- common shared knowledge of professional practices. For example, journalism has broadly recognized professional practices that define the field. Media literacy doesn’t have a comparable consensus.
BIOGRAPHY OF KATHLEEN TYNER
Kathleen Tyner is associate professor in the Dept. of Radio-TV-Film in the College of... Read More
DOUGLAS KELLNER
INTERVIEW DATE: MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2010
INTERVIEWED BY: DEE MORGENTHALER
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If you look at Britain, Australia, and Canada, the three other biggest English speaking countries, all of them have some quite sophisticated media education programs in the schools K‑12, whereas it's an exception in the U.S.
BIOGRAPHY OF DOUGLAS KELLNER
Douglas Kellner is an author, theorist, and George Kneller Chair of the Philosophy of Education at UCLA. He was an early theorist in the field of media literacy, who has since published on topics including the... Read More
KATHRYN CURRIER (KATE) MOODY
DATE OF INTERVIEW: Thursday, MARCH 31, 2011
INTERVIEWER: TESSA JOLLS
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My expectation was that once parents and educators had certain kinds of information about the available research and the probable effects of habitual TV viewing that they would do something about them. And I must say that all the problems are still there and I don’t see that anything much has been solved since my book, “Growing Up on Television,” was published in 1980.
BIOGRAPHY OF KATHRYN CURRIER (KATE) MOODY
Kate Moody is a lifelong... Read More