NetFamilyNews.orgGuest post by Marianne Malmstrom At the Elisabeth Morrow School, we have been on a journey to help our students develop the essential skills of creativity, collaboration, communication, critical thinking and citizenship. We turned to virtual worlds and MOGs because these are the same skills many young gamers practice through immersive play. Initially, we used [...]
This article was originally published April 12, 2012, then my service’s server crashed, losing months of data. So reposting 10/18/12. The cynical way to say it might be that we’re all our own best spin doctors these days. There are a lot of ways to say it, though – e.g., protecting one’s public image, reputation [...]
This article was originally published June 12, 2012, then my service’s server crashed, losing months of data. So reposting 9/29/12. Now for the good news in the youth part of a report from Ottawa-based MediaSmarts’s report “Talking to Youth and Parents about Life Online” (yesterday I highlighted the parents piece). Well, mostly good news. It [...]
Sidebar to my post below, “Literacy for a digital age” In talks he gives, media professor Henry Jenkins, often refers to the advice Peter Parker, aka Spiderman, gets from his Uncle Ben: “With great power comes great responsibility.” But Dr. Jenkins, a professor at the University of Southern California, isn’t only creating a parallel between [...]
Digital literacy educator Diana Graber is crowdsourcing a media literacy curriculum for 8th-graders at Journey School in southern California. It’s Year 3 of the school’s CyberCivics program that Diana’s building, she writes in the CyberWise blog. Reading her resource-rich post got me thinking about all I’ve learned about digital literacy, media literacy, and social literacy [...]
Last week, Part 1 about the “whitewater-kayaking kind of learning needed today”; here, in Part 2, a great example: An alternative headline might be: “A bucket of bricks for learning,” but I’ll get to the bricks in a minute. First the backstory. Marianne Malmstrom teaches the richest possible kind of media literacy to and with, [...]
I wish every high school student had a librarian like Joyce Valenza! Many do, probably, but I hope they hear what Joyce tells the junior class at her school about social media and online reputations. As they prep to apply to colleges and universities, she gives them solid data, resources, and advice, as she relates [...]
Passive consumption – watching TV and DVDs – is still by far the dominant form of media use among little children in these digitally charged times. US children 0-8 spend an average of 1:40 watching television or DVDs in a typical day, “compared to 29 minutes reading or being read to, 29 minutes listening to [...]
This is a stark example of why media literacy needs to be taught from the earliest ages – in and with digital media. [It's also an example of why it's hugely important to their kids that parents practice media literacy and not take what they see in social sites literally, but more on that in [...]
There’s research and then there’s “research.” Let’s take a look at the latter: the very credible-sounding “National Survey on American Attitudes on Substance Abuse XVI: Teens and Parents,” linking social media use to drug abuse in teens. How could the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University (CASA) publish a commentary and [...]
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