scholarly journals Keys to Recognizing the Levels of Critical Audiovisual Reading in Children

Comunicar ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 19 (38) ◽  
pp. 113-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacqueline Sánchez-Carrero ◽  
Yamile Sandoval-Romero
Keyword(s):  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Media Literacy ◽  
Media Education ◽  
Media Content ◽  
Leading Indicators ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Critical Media ◽  
The Common ◽  
Los Grupos

Based on the results of several projects carried out with children and adolescents, we can state that knowledge of production and broadcasting aids the acquisition of critical media skills. This article combines three media education experiences in Venezuela, Colombia and Spain driven by a critical reception approach. It presents leading indicators for determining the level of critical audiovisual reading in children aged 8-12 extracted from intervention processes through workshops on media literacy. The groups had been instructed on the audiovisual universe, which allowed them to analyze, deconstruct and recreate audiovisual content. Firstly, this article refers to the evolving concept of media education. Secondly, the common experiences in the three countries are described, with special attention to the influence of indicators that gauge the level of critical reading. Finally, we reflect on the need for media education in the era of multi-literacy. It is unusual to find studies that reveal the keys to assessing the levels of critical consumption of digital media content in children, and this is essential for determining the level of children’s understanding before and after training processes in media education. Diversos estudios con niños y adolescentes han demostrado que a mayor conocimiento del mundo de la producción y transmisión de mensajes audiovisuales, mayor capacidad adquieren para formarse un criterio propio ante la pantalla. En este artículo se aúnan tres experiencias de educación mediática realizadas en Venezuela, Colombia y España, desde el enfoque de la recepción crítica. Se proporcionan los indicadores que llevan a determinar los niveles de lectura crítica audiovisual en niños de entre 8 y 12 años, construidos a partir de procesos de intervención mediante talleres de alfabetización mediática. Los grupos han sido instruidos acerca del universo audiovisual, dándoles a conocer cómo se gestan los contenidos audiovisuales y el modo de analizarlos, desestructurarlos y recrearlos. Primero, se hace referencia al concepto en evolución de educación mediática. Después, se describen las experiencias comunes en los tres países para luego incidir en los indicadores que permiten medir el nivel de lectura crítica. Por último, se reflexiona sobre la necesidad de la educación mediática en la era de la multialfabetización. No es muy frecuente encontrar estudios que revelen las claves para reconocer qué grado de criticidad tiene un niño cuando visiona los contenidos de los distintos medios digitales. Es un tema fundamental pues permite saber con qué nivel de comprensión cuenta y cuál adquiere después de un proceso de formación en educación mediática.

scholarly journals Awareness, Prevention, Detection, and Therapy Applications for Depression and Anxiety in Serious Games for Children and Adolescents: Systematic Review

10.2196/30482 ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. e30482
Author(s):  
Kim Martinez ◽  
Maria Isabel Menéndez-Menéndez ◽  
Andres Bustillo
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Serious Games ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Depression And Anxiety ◽  
Major Health ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Open Line ◽  
The Common

Background Depression and anxiety in children and adolescents are major health problems worldwide. In recent years, serious games research has advanced in the development of tools to address these mental health conditions. However, there has not been an extensive analysis of these games, their tendencies, and capacities. Objective This review aims to gather the most current serious games, published from 2015 to 2020, with a new approach focusing on their applications: awareness, prevention, detection, and therapy. The purpose is also to analyze the implementation, development, and evaluation of these tools to obtain trends, strengths, and weaknesses for future research lines. Methods The identification of the serious games through a literature search was conducted on the databases PubMed, Scopus, Wiley, Taylor and Francis, Springer, PsycINFO, PsycArticles, Web of Science, and Science Direct. The identified records were screened to include only the manuscripts meeting these criteria: a serious game for PC, smartphone, or virtual reality; developed by research teams; targeting only depression or anxiety or both; aiming specifically at children or adolescents. Results A total of 34 studies have been found that developed serious games for PC, smartphone, and virtual reality devices and tested them in children and adolescents. Most of the games address both conditions and are applied in prevention and therapy. Nevertheless, there is a trend that anxiety is targeted more in childhood and depression targeted more in adolescence. Regarding design, the game genres arcade minigames, adventure worlds, and social simulations are used, in this order. For implementation, these serious games usually require sessions of 1 hour and are most often played using a PC. Moreover, the common evaluation tools are normalized questionnaires that measure acquisition of skills or reduction of symptoms. Most studies collect and compare these data before and after the participants play. Conclusions The results show that more awareness and detection games are needed, as well as games that mix the awareness, prevention, detection, and therapy applications. In addition, games for depression and anxiety should equally target all age ranges. For future research, the development and evaluation of serious games should be standardized, so the implementation of serious games as tools would advance. The games should always offer support while playing, in addition to collecting data on participant behavior during the game to better analyze their learning. Furthermore, there is an open line regarding the use of virtual reality for these games due to the capabilities offered by this technology.

scholarly journals Cooperative Learning With and About Internet Forums: A Case Study on a Unit on the Consumption and Chemistry of Mineral Water vs. Tap Water

2022 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johanna Dittmar ◽  
Ingo Eilks
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Chemistry Education ◽  
Tap Water ◽  
Consumer Products ◽  
Media Education ◽  
Chemistry Learning ◽  
Unit Design ◽  
Critical Media ◽  
Internet Forums

In today’s society, digital media play an increasing role in gathering and exchanging information. A growing part of communication takes place in the Internet and many people are increasingly influenced by information provided via digital and social media. Development of critical media literacy is needed, if the general public is expected to effectively deal with this flood of information and to become able to distinguish between correct and false information sources. Thus, critical media education becomes an important aim of education in general, and of chemistry education in particular when considering questions directly related to chemistry and its associated consumer products or technologies. The article describes a curriculum development case study investigating the integration of media education with chemistry learning along the case of learning with and about Internet forums on the topic of water chemistry. A unit integrating theoretical and practical chemistry learning based on student communication is described, which is built around a digital forum operated by Moodle. The unit design and findings from the implementation are presented.

scholarly journals Media Literacy in the US

2005 ◽  
Vol 11 (Media Education) ◽  
pp. 1-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas Kellner ◽  
Jeff Share
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Media Literacy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Literacy Education ◽  
Media Education ◽  
The Us ◽  
National Media ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Critical Media ◽  
English Speaking

Media literacy education is not as advanced in the US as in several other English-speaking areas such as Great Britain, Canada, and Australia. Despite decades of struggle since the 1970s by individuals and groups, media education is still only reaching a small percentage of Americans. While some major inroads have been made, such as getting elements of media literacy included in most of the 50 state's educational standards and the launching of two national media education organizations, most teachers and students in the United States still have never heard of media literacy. In this paper, we first set forth some models of media literacy, delineate key concepts of critical media literacy, and then examine some of the most active organizations in the United States and differences in their goals and pedagogy.

Youth and Media Culture

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stuart R. Poyntz ◽  
Jennesia Pedri
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
User Participation ◽  
Sesame Street ◽  
Media Culture ◽  
Media Education ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Critical Media ◽  
Youth Media ◽  
The 1960S

Media in the 21st century are changing when, where, what, and how young people learn. Some educators, youth researchers, and parents lament this reality; but youth, media culture, and learning nevertheless remain entangled in a rich set of relationships today. These relationships and the anxieties they produce are not new; they echo worries about the consequences of young people’s media attachments that have been around for decades. These anxieties first appeared in response to the fear that violence, vulgarity, and sexual desire in early popular culture was thought to pose to culture. Others, however, believed that media could be repurposed to have a broader educational impact. This sentiment crept into educational discourses throughout the 1960s in a way that would shift thinking about youth, media culture, and education. For example, it shaped the development of television shows such as Sesame Street as a kind of learning portal. In addition to the idea that youth can learn from the media, educators and activists have also turned to media education as a more direct intervention. Media education addresses how various media operate in and through particular institutions, technologies, texts, and audiences in an effort to affect how young people learn and engage with media culture. These developments have been enhanced by a growing interest in a broad project of literacy. By the 1990s and 2000s, media production became a common feature in media education practices because it was thought to enable young people to learn by doing, rather than just by analyzing or reading texts. This was enabled by the emergence of new digital media technologies that prioritize user participation. As we have come to read and write media differently in a digital era, however, a new set of problems have arisen that affect how media cultures are understood in relation to learning. Among these issues is how a participatory turn in media culture allows others, including corporations, governments, and predatory individuals, to monitor, survey, coordinate, and guide our activities as never before. Critical media literacy education addresses this context and continues to provide a framework to address the future of youth, media culture and learning.

Critical Media Literacy in Teacher Education, Theory, and Practice

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeff Share ◽  
Tatevik Mamikonyan ◽  
Eduardo Lopez
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Media Literacy ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Media Education ◽  
Critical Education ◽  
Critical Media Literacy ◽  
Critical Media ◽  
K 12 ◽  
Media And Technology

Democracy in the digital networked age of “fake news” and “alternative facts” requires new literacy skills and critical awareness to read, write, and use media and technology to empower civic participation and social transformation. Unfortunately, not many educators have been prepared to teach students how to think critically with and about the media and technology that engulf us. Across the globe there is a growing movement to develop media and information literacy curriculum (UNESCO) and train teachers in media education (e-Media Education Lab), but these attempts are limited and in danger of co-optation by the faster growing, better financed, and less critical education and information technology corporations. It is essential to develop a critical response to the new information communication technologies that are embedded in all aspects of society. The possibilities and limitations are vast for teaching educators to enter K-12 classrooms and teach their students to use various media, critically question all types of texts, challenge problematic representations, and create alternative messages. Through applying a critical media literacy framework that has evolved from cultural studies and critical pedagogy, students at all grade levels can learn to critically analyze the messages and create their own alternative media. The voices of teachers engaging in this work can provide pragmatic insight into the potential and challenges of putting the theory into practice in K-12 public schools.

Using Media Literacy to Teach and Learn the English Language Arts/Literacy

2016 ◽  
pp. 291-305
Author(s):  
Kelly McNeal
Keyword(s):  
Language Arts ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Media Literacy ◽  
Common Core ◽  
Common Core State Standards ◽  
English Language ◽  
State Standards ◽  
Core State ◽  
Language Arts Literacy ◽  
The Common

Forty-three states out of fifty states in the United States of America have adopted the Common Core State Standards in English language arts/literacy as a means of setting attainment levels of what students should know at different benchmarks during their schooling. The Common Core State Standards will be viewed through the lens of how they can be taught and learned by utilizing digital literacy media. This chapter will discuss how the goals of digital media literacy are aligned with the Common Core State Standards, how resources can be used to teach teachers and school district personnel about the Common Core State Standards, and finally how digital media can aid in helping students learn the standards and can aid in helping community members learn and then teach these standards. This chapter will conclude with questions and controversies about the Common Core State Standards and how media literacy education can alleviate many of the fears and challenges associated with the growing debate on this topic.

Digital Media and Cosmopolitan Critical Literacy

2016 ◽  
pp. 46-68
Author(s):  
Thomas W. Bean
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Critical Literacy ◽  
Media Literacy ◽  
Risk Society ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Global Risk ◽  
Critical Media ◽  
Global World ◽  
Digital Media Literacy

In this chapter I consider contemporary global conditions pointing to what some scholars term “a global risk society” where digital media and Cosmopolitan Critical Literacy offer a counterpoint to human rights, health, climate, and terrorist threats. By examining current research in global youth communication across nation-state boundaries via the Internet, existing research suggests that tapping into digital media literacy and critical media literacy will be crucial for developing an informed and critical citizenry. At present, studies of transnational youth navigating old and new affiliations across national borders are in their infancy. Nevertheless, the existing research holds promise for developing global world citizens who can realize an ethos of cosmopolitan, critical citizenship through the affordances of digital media.

Keeping Media Literacy Critical during the Post-Truth Crisis over Fake News

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie Frechette
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Media Literacy ◽  
Literacy Education ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Economic Interests ◽  
Media Literacy Education ◽  
Digital World ◽  
Critical Media ◽  
Filter Bubbles ◽  
Information Brokers

As citizens demand more media literacy education in schools, the criticality of media literacy must be advanced in meaningful and comprehensive ways that enable students to successfully access, analyze, evaluate and produce media ethically and effectively across diverse platforms and channels. Institutional analysis in the digital age means understanding who controls the architecture(s) of digital technology, and how they use it. Big data, high tech, and rich transnational global media all need to be carefully studied and held accountable. “Panopticonic” practices such as surveillance, geolocation, data mining, and niche microtargeting need to be studied as information brokers reap huge profits by amalgamating and selling off the data that internet and social media users unwittingly but willingly provide to companies. In light of the growing evidence that online-only networks create filter bubbles and polarization, people will need to interact and mobilize in offline real world spaces. Critical media literacy education must explore how human interactivity is undergoing tectonic shifts as powerful ideological and economic interests work to alter our digital media ecology. Such an approach will allow us to better leverage our public interest goals through a media landscape that preserves the multidirectional, participatory, global, networkable aspects of the digital world.

scholarly journals CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS : SEEING THE MEDIA EDUCATION FROM CDA PERSPECTIVE

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annisa Septiani
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Media Literacy ◽  
Media Education ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Critical Practice ◽  
Know How ◽  
Critical Media ◽  
The Media

This paper about critical discourse analysis in media education.Students have used mass media to help them to learn. They get any information from it. Although mass media can help the students to learn, mass media also has a bad effect. For that, the students must know how to critically mass media such as they know the theory of critical practice, critical media literacy and CDA in the education media

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