scholarly journals Media education in the School 2.0 era: Teaching media literacy through laptop computers and iPads

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 435-449 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alice Y. L. Lee

In the School 2.0 era in Hong Kong, students are using laptop computers and iPads to explore and discuss media issues in the classroom. Using the innovation theory, this study investigates this new way of teaching and learning. It examines the effectiveness and challenges of learning media literacy through new media technologies. The results show that students are highly motivated by the new media and express great interest in the media literacy curriculum. The new methods not only enhance students’ media literacy, but they also strengthen their 4C skills (critical thinking, creativity, communication, and collaboration). Using new information technologies to teach media education is effective because the new curriculum can create “meaning” and “relevance” for the Net-Generation students.

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 23-35
Author(s):  
Faiza Muneeb ◽  
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Sana Mehmood ◽  
Saliha Mehboob ◽  
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This paper aims to record concerns of media education currently under debate in Pakistan. It indicates three main study trends. The first trend is concerned about Pakistani digital technology users, their skills in technologies especially digital media usage and the second about new media learning and teaching methods by using new media tools like mobile devices, tablets, social media networking, which needs new technical and technological framework. The last trend deals with literacy concerning digital education, related to both the skills required by digital media students have to progress and what educators especially faculty members have to be trained about these media technologies. In order to achieve objectives pertaining to these trends, semi-structured interviews of students and educators are conducted. Concerning the first trend, we observe a division of perspectives and understanding between those who believe that all we need is new media education for old academic solutions and those we think there is a need of changing academic styles, thus allowing it to grow into a new standard. For this purpose, they stress that digital devices should be made an integral part of today’s classrooms. Concerning the second trend, we observe a consensus on teaching and learning by using digital devices as the most useful, helpful tools. Mostly, the school educators have their own laptops, tablets, and mobile phones however, they stressed on a combination of ethics, education and utilization of digital media in a good manner. Finally, the notion of literacy concerning digital media which has received significant consideration be defined in various ways particularly in the south Asian context. Keywords: Digital Media, Digital Technology, Native Educators, Pakistan


2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 65-76
Author(s):  
Aida TOPUZYAN ◽  
Lusine POGHOSYAN

In the 21st century, modern society learns and lives with new rules and laws. They are dictated by the surrounding reality. If education is cut off from modern life, then it can not be of interest to the pupils, which would make it ineffective. The introduction of information technologies is one of the keys to organizing effective education for pupils. Therefore, the role of the teacher in this process is extremely important. Teacher’s media competencies are aimed at pupils' correct selection and interpretation of media content, their perception and understanding of the content, avoiding manipulation, and literate media use. Our research among learners, teachers, parents shows that the use of media in modern schools is not widespread. Teachers rarely use media technologies during lessons and, as a rule, they are not aimed at the development of the pupils' media literacy, but act as meeting the demand of applying innovative methods and technical means. In order to organize children's media education, to use media tools, to identify teachers' level of media literacy, and to develop media competencies, studies have been conducted in various secondary schools. The studies show that some teachers don't know exactly what the media is. The responses of some of the teachers who participated in the survey show that teachers do not exactly understand the nature of the media, the forms, the answers of many of them are different and incomplete. Teachers are mostly unaware of media technologies and do not realize its role in the upbringing and development of children. Summing up the results of surveys of teachers, children, and their parents, we came to the conclusion that the central role in the implementation of media education is played by the teacher. He is the pedagogue of ICT and the media the one who carries out parental education; he is the one who turns students into media educators. So it is necessary to help the teacher and the future teachers in carrying out their mission. All this forced us to try to develop the following media competencies of teachers and in parallel, determine the pupil's media competencies.


2001 ◽  
Vol 101 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carmen Luke

Have media education and media literacy reached an impasse? Media literacy scholars and educators are beginning to raise issues concerning the relevance of ‘old-style ‘ media studies in the context of new times and new media. Media literacy is formalised as part of the Australian National Literacy Framework, yet it remains largely marginalised as an elective in the senior school syllabus. In contrast, computer education — or computer literacy — has been embraced by governments, educators and parents with blind and cheery optimism. I argue here that media studies, cultural studies, computer and technology studies can no longer be taught independently of each other. The fervour with which computer education has been embraced, and the relatively modest incursions media and cultural studies have made into mainstream curriculum, suggest that blending media-cultural studies with information and communication technology (ICT) studies can inject new life into both fields of study. Largely bereft of a critical orientation, computer literacy education can benefit from the theoretical and critically analytic orientation of media-cultural studies, which in turn can be ‘mainstreamed’ through broader exposure typical of computer education in schools today. Media studies must contend with new information technologies, and computer education needs the critical analytic tools and cultural framing approach typical of media studies.


Author(s):  
Johannes Fromme

Media education is a comparatively young specialisation within educational science. It acts on the assumption that in modern (or postmodern) societies human's relation to the world is largely mediated by technical media. To act pedagogically therefore has to be conceived and understood as acting in a world shaped by information and communication technologies. Based on this media education addresses three different problems. First it tries to analyse and critically reflect on socio-cultural forms and practices of media usage in order to assess the social as well as individual relevance of technically mediated perception and communication. Second it tries do develop scientifically founded concepts for the practice of media education in order to foster people's media skills and media literacy. Third it tries to develop concepts for media didactics, that is for a methodical application of technical media in order to support teaching and learning processes.


2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 72-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shanthi Balraj Baboo

Many children grow up in contemporary Malaysia with an array of new media. These include television, video games, mobile phones, computers, Internet, tablets, iPads and iPods. In using these new media technologies, children are able to produce texts and images that shape their childhood experiences and their views of the world. This article presents some selected findings and snapshots of the media lifeworlds of children aged 10 in Malaysia. This article is concerned with media literacy and puts a focus on the use, forms of engagement and ways that children are able to make sense of media technologies in their lives. The study reveals that children participate in many different media activities in their homes. However, the multimodal competencies, user experiences and meaning-making actions that the children construct are not engaged with in productive ways in their schooling literacies. It is argued that media literacy should be more widely acknowledged within home and school settings.


World Science ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (4(56)) ◽  
pp. 4-9
Author(s):  
O. Vysotska ◽  
S. Vysotska

The article highlights the civic/ role of media education that should be taught at schools and universities as a tool for educating responsible and active citizens. It emphasizes that media literacy education should be addressed in primary-secondary-tertiary education level curricula and presents examples of successful teaching and learning practices in the West which are based on competence development approach and active critical engagement of students with media. The article offers for consideration some ways to address disinformation in the classroom, analyzes conditions that make successful implementation of effective media education as well as the challenges media education experiences in Ukraine.


2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 13
Author(s):  
Amia Luthfia

Teenager aged 10-19 years is the digital native generation and thetj are connected with the virtual world almost every time. Online activities they do, among others, are connected through social media, search for information on various websites, downloading music, watching movies via YouTube, read the news, play on-line games, and etc. Teens' on-line activity behind it has a variety of risks and should be examined together with any kind of on-line risks experienced by adolescents as a first step in order to minimize the negative effects that rcould occur. This article contains a study of the conceptualization of on-line risk, scope and classification of on-line risk; featuring a wide range of research<br />011 the influence of social environment on the risk of on-line teens; and attempts to deal with the risk of negative media that hit young people through new media literacy education. Media literacy curriculum that already exist.&gt;hould be adapted to the characteristics of new media. At its core, the new media literacy should include: (1) media literacy; (2) d igital technologtj literacy; (3) civil and social respol?sibility; and ( 4) imagination and creativih;.


2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick C. Herbert ◽  
Darson Rhodes ◽  
Je’Lynn Tiberi-Ramos ◽  
Taylor Cichon ◽  
Hailee Baer ◽  
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Social influences and ‘new media’ may contribute to students participating in risky health be-haviors. An evidence-based, digital media literacy curriculum was delivered by members of a communitysubstance abuse prevention coalition to upper elementary-aged students in a local afterschool program.Written pre-post assessments of perceived media influence on their health risk behaviors were completedby participants. Mean pre-test scores for ‘Influence of the Internet’ were significantly (p<.01) higher thanpost-test scores. Results reflect participants reporting the internet had less influence on their health choicespost-program than pre-program. Media literacy interventions can be effective when used in the afterschoolsetting.


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