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The Pedagogy of Critical Enjoyment: Teaching and Reaching the Hearts and Minds of Adolescent Learners Through Media Literacy Education

Theresa Redmond · DOAJ Open Access Articles

While there is consensus regarding the definition of media literacy, classroom-based studies of media literacy education in action are few and research that investigates how teachers implement media literacy in practice are needed, including information about why it is taught, what is taught, and how it is taught. Through a purposefully selected case of medi…

Discovering Constructivism: How A Project-Oriented Activity-Based Media Production Course Effectively Employed Constructivist Teaching Principles

Glenn T. Hubbard · DOAJ Open Access Articles

The author uses his experience leading a project-oriented special-topics course as a case study in constructivist teaching methods. Citing relevant literature from the education field, this paper considers why students chosen to work for course credit on a promotional video for a university program considered the project their greatest academic learning expe…

The Markings of a New Pencil: Introducing Programming-as-Writing in the Middle School Classroom

Quinn Burke · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Using the setting of a writing workshop to facilitate a deliberate process to learn computer programming, this exploratory study investigates where there is a natural overlap between programming and writing through the storytelling motif, and to what extent existing language arts coursework and pedagogy can be leveraged to introduce this new form of digital …

Connecting Assessment and Instruction to Help Students Become More Critical Producers of Multimedia

Jonathan William Ostenson · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Classroom teachers have been encouraged to incorporate more multimedia production in the classroom as a means of helping students develop critical media literacy skills. However, they have not always been well trained in how to evaluate the work students create; many teachers struggle to know which criteria to use in assessing student work. This article outl…

What Dirty Dancing Taught Me About Media Literacy Education

Robin Fuxa · DOAJ Open Access Articles

The author reflects on her youthful viewing of Dirty Dancing on video against her parents’ wishes as one example of the ineffectiveness of a protectionist approach to media. She offers ideas on how she and her students (pre-service and in-service educators) think through how to navigate selection of materials for effective media literacy education. Concern o…

Review: DIY Media: Creating, Sharing and Learning with New Technologies (2010)

Tom Hallaq · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Framing the Future of Fanfiction: How The New York Times’ Portrayal of a Youth Media Subculture Influences Beliefs about Media Literacy Education

Drew Emanuel Berkowitz · DOAJ Open Access Articles

This article discusses how online fanfiction communities, their members, and their literacy practices are portrayed within popular and news media discourses. Many media literacy scholars believe these youth media subcultures practice complex and sophisticated forms of “new media” literacy. However, when educators attempt to incorporate these practices into K…

Developing Multimodal Academic Literacies among College Freshmen

Gloria E. Jacobs · DOAJ Open Access Articles

This article describes a semester-long freshman learning community in which multimodal texts were used as primary texts along with traditional texts to support students’ academic literacy skills. Analysis shows that an expository video created by students contains elements of academic literacies and qualities of multimodal texts. An unexpected finding was th…

Developing an Ethics of Youth Media Production Using Media Literacy, Identity, & Modality

Damiana Gibbons · DOAJ Open Access Articles

This critical, theoretical paper conceptualizes what determines an ethics for youth media production. Through discussions of media literacy, identity, and multimodality, I attempt to shift the question away from “What are the ethical ways in which youth use media?” toward the question “What are the ethics we have created as media literacy educators within wh…

Exploring Message Meaning: A Qualitative Media Literacy Study of College Freshmen

Seth Ashley; Grace Lyden; Devon Fasbinder · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Critical media literacy demands understanding of the deeper meanings of media messages. Using a grounded theory approach, this study analyzed responses by first-year college students not currently enrolled in formal media literacy education to three types of video messages: an advertisement, a public relations message, and a news report. Students did not exh…

Explore Locally, Excel Digitally: A Participatory Learning After-school Program for Enriching Citizenship On- and Offline

Laurel J. Felt; Vanessa Vartabedian; Ioana Literat; Ritesh Mehta · DOAJ Open Access Articles

This paper discusses the design and implementation of a participatory culture pedagogy in the context of a pilot after-school program at Los Angeles Unified School District’s Robert F. Kennedy Community Schools. Ethnographic fieldnotes, instructor and student reflections, photographs, video recordings, and student work illustrate the program’s culture of par…

Media Literacy Education Program Evaluators: What’s the Job Description, Again?

Kneia Octavia DaCosta · DOAJ Open Access Articles

School program evaluation researchers confront overlapping questions concerning our roles in the field. In the quest for “good” data and “The Truth,” am I a shrewd researcher before all else? In the interest of establishing respectful, reciprocal relationships with my school partners, am I first a gracious school guest, prepared to sacrifice research integri…

Review: ArtBabble: A Partnership of Art Appreciation, Curation, and Media Literacy

Julie DeCesare · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Exploring the Usefulness of School Education about Risks on Social Network Sites: A Survey Study

Ellen Vanderhoven; Tammy Schellens; Martin Valcke · DOAJ Open Access Articles

The growing popularity of social network sites (SNS) is causing concerns about privacy and security, especially with teenagers, since they show various forms of unsafe behavior on SNS. It has been put forth by researchers, teachers, parents, and teenagers that school is ideally placed to educate teens about risks on SNS and to teach youngsters how to use SNS…

Media Literacy Education from Kindergarten to College: A Comparison of How Media Literacy Is Addressed across the Educational System

Hans C. Schmidt · DOAJ Open Access Articles

This study of media literacy education at all levels of the educational system considered faculty perceptions of student media literacy competencies, the extent to which media literacy is addressed in class, and the extent to which faculty members consider media literacy education to be important. Data suggest that despite the research and policy focus on me…

Exploring Adolescents’ Multimodal Responses to The Kite Runner: Understanding How Students Use Digital Media for Academic Purposes

Robin Jocius · DOAJ Open Access Articles

This qualitative study explores how adolescent high school students in an AP English class used multiple forms of media (the Internet, digital video, slide show software, video editing tools, literary texts, and writing) to respond to and analyze a contemporary novel, The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini. Using a multimodal analysis framework, the author expl…

A Media Literate Approach to Developing Diversity Education

Fernando Naiditch · DOAJ Open Access Articles

This article describes a classroom project developed in a course on diversity education that required pre-service teachers to use media literacy as a way to cross cultural borders and reach out to an online partner to exchange information and learn about different ways of relating to the world and interpreting cultural phenomena. Students kept a journal in w…

Bringing the World to School: Integrating News and Media Literacy in Elementary Classrooms

David Cooper Moore · DOAJ Open Access Articles

For three years, the Powerful Voices for Kids program, a university-school partnership program of the Media Education Lab at the University of Rhode Island, developed a multifaceted approach to integrate news and current events into in-school and after-school instruction in K-6 schools. Three case studies detailing the program’s impact on an undergraduate no…

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Erin Reilly · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Speculative Design and Curriculum Development: Using Worldbuilding to Imagine a New Major in a Post-Course Era

Holly Willis; Steve Anderson · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Randy Bass, Executive Director of Georgetown’s Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship, recently made the provocative claim that we inhabit a “post-course era.” Building on the findings of the National Survey of Student Engagement that show that the places in which undergraduate students demonstrate the highest degree of engagement is in areas out…