1. Renee Hobbs
Harrington School of Communication and Media
University of Rhode Island USA
Email: Hobbs@uri.edu
Twitter: @Reneehobbs
Web: www.mediaeducationlab.com
10. Media literacy is
responsive to
people’s lived
experience with
digital media,
mass media &
popular culture
RELEVANCE
11. MEDIA LITERACY IS….
a type of education designed to
protect people from potential harms
of media exposure
a critique of media’s institutional and
social power
a social movement empowering people
to create media
a type of education that advances the
capacity for lifelong learning
a dimension of democratic citizenship
an expanded form of literacy
12. October 21 – 25, 2019
digital literacy visual literacy
information literacy
digital citizenship
media education
20. PEER-TO-PEER FILE SHARING
This Session
Many different forms of media literacy
education are needed to respond to the complex
digital environment of today
To explore algorithmic personalization,
dialectical thinking strategies are effective
Critical questions and media analysis activities
help to deepen and transform emotional
responses to contemporary propaganda
27. “Increasingly online, it’s becoming
impossible to escape your own point of
view.”
-Eli Pariser
“A squirrel dying in front of your
house may be more relevant to your
interests right now than people dying
in Africa.”
– Mark Zuckerberg
“It will be very hard for people to
watch or consume something that
has not been tailored for them.”
-Eric Schmidt
Turn & Talk
Reflect upon
and discuss
these quotes
with your
partner
28. COMPARE & CONTRAST
GOOGLE SEARCH ENGINE
RESULTS PAGES
Students share screenshots of search activities
using the same keywords on the same day
30. “In mathematics, the art
of posing a question
must be held of higher
value than solving it.”
- Georg Cantor, creator of Set Theory
(1867)
31. Question: Why do the shoes I was looking at
on Zappos follow me from one website to
another?
Question: Why do some FB friends
never show up on my News Feed?
Question: Why go Google search results seem
so different when I use my Grandma’s
computer?
37. www.grandparentsofmedialiteracy.com
Audiences are a type of commodity
that is produced, sold, distributed
and consumed.
By using media and viewing
advertising, workers end up
participating in capitalism even
when they’re relaxing at home.
44. A majority of students ages 14 - 23 prefer learning from
YouTube videos over other activities including in-person
group activities, learning apps, games, or reading from
printed books.
SOURCE: Pearson (2018). Beyond millennials: The next generation of learners. Global Research &
Insights and Harris Polling.
45. Turn & Talk
What are the potential
benefits and harms of
YouTube as a tool for
learning?
46.
47. Dialectics is a method of
philosophical argument that involves
some sort of contradictory process
between opposing sides.
Knowing is something
you do, an action that
requires heightened self-
awareness and reflection.
Dialectic reasoning generates
contradictions that are replaced
but still preserved over time.
48.
49.
50. Turn & Talk
Share your
interpretation of
this video with the
person sitting next
to you
73. October 21 – 25, 2019
Digital Citizenship & Media Literacy Bill
#S2240
74. Professor Renee Hobbs
Harrington School of Communication and Media
University of Rhode Island USA
Email: hobbs@uri.edu
Twitter: @reneehobbs
Web: www.mediaeducationlab.com
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