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BlueSky Educational Networking

BlueSky Educational Networking

Thousands of educators are using the social media platform BlueSky to connect, share ideas, and collaborate. With so many social networking platforms now available, where should innovative teachers and educators connect? Especially since November 2024, one answer is BlueSky, thanks in part to the #EduSky…

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Building Resilient Communities: Using Media Literacy to Fight Extremism, Hate and Violence

Building Resilient Communities: Using Media Literacy to Fight Extremism, Hate and Violence

This session, part of UNESCO Global MIL Week and co-organised by the Media Learning Association and Media Education Lab, will be dedicated to exploring media literacy as a proactive tool for resisting harmful communication, preventing extremism, and fostering stronger,…

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Digital Ubuntu/Empathy of Teenagers

Digital Ubuntu/Empathy of Teenagers

In the third interactive session, co-hosts Aurra Kawanzaruwa and Yonty Friesem will share case studies of digital empathy/Ubunto with teenagers. Participants will discuss how can media education and digital citizenship across the globe support adolescent search for identity and human connections to society. What are the concepts of Ubuntu/Empathy when teens are engaged online? As teens get more…

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Digital Ubuntu/Empathy of Children

Digital Ubuntu/Empathy of Children

In the second interactive session, co-hosts Aurra Kawanzaruwa and Yonty Friesem will share case studies of digital empathy/Ubunto with children. Participants will discuss how can media education and digital citizenship across the globe support children's rights and connections. What are the concepts of Ubuntu/Empathy when children are engaged online? As children get more and more surrounded by…

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MediaEd Club: The Rise of Chicago's Queer Country Music Scene: ‘Country Music is the People’s Music’

MediaEd Club: The Rise of Chicago's Queer Country Music Scene: ‘Country Music is the People’s Music’

In this session of the MediaEd Club, Shelby Hawkins will lead a conversation about building and finding community through public service, and how media can be used as a tool to bring people together. In this conversation, Shelby will delve into the media segment The Rise of Chicago's…

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The Routledge Handbook of Media Education Futures Post-Pandemic.

The Routledge Handbook of Media Education Futures Post-Pandemic.

Our team from the Media Education Lab is proud to announce the publication of The Routledge Handbook of Media Education Futures Post-Pandemic. This handbook showcases how educators and practitioners around the world adapted their routine media…

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Exploring the Roots of Digital and Media Literacy through Personal Narrative

Exploring the Roots of Digital and Media Literacy through Personal Narrative

Explore the multidisciplinary nature of media literacy education It's been said that the lack of scholarship about the history of media literacy has been a source of some of the conflicts and debates among scholars and practitioners. Media literacy stands at the intersection of the fields of media studies and education, and these scholars have divergent perspectives on the past, present and…

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Set Your Motivation

Set Your Motivation

The Digital Learning Horoscope is a 48-item Likert scale instrument that assesses teachers’ perception of the value and relevance of six conceptual themes, namely: attitudes toward technology tools, genres and formats; message content and quality; community connectedness; texts and audiences; media systems; and learner-centered focus. …

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Internet: Indispensable or Evil?

Internet: Indispensable or Evil?

OverviewIn these four lessons, students use the episode Adam Ruins the Internet (Season 2, Episode 12) as a starting point to discuss the role of the Internet in modern culture and learn about media policies that shape people’s online…

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All About Media

All About Media

It's never too early to be smart about media!Give emerging readers the tools to learn about media, evaluate it, and understand it. Readers will learn essential critical thinking concepts along with important topics such as understanding how to find sources and how to properly source, privacy and Internet safety, evaluating ads and news reports, and determining the differences between facts,…

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