Hobbs gives a brief overview of digital and media literacy for the Media Literacy in Early Childhood Alliance National Leadership Forum, January 15, 2019.
5. FLAVORS OF
DIGITAL LITERACY
SKILLS & ABILITIES
➢ Computer Use and Knowledge
➢ Digital Skills
LITERACY
➢ Online Reading & New Literacies
➢ Media Production & Composition
➢ Coding & Programming
TEACHING WITH
➢ Technology Integration
➢ Digital Learning
➢ Blended Learning
➢ Connected Learning
TEACHING ABOUT
➢ Information Literacy
➢ Media Literacy
➢ Online Safety & Digital Citizenship
6. Digital & Media Literacy Competencies are
Complex & Multifaceted
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CIVICC
CREATIVE
COGNITIVE SOCIAL
TECHNICAL
8. Protection
Balance Media & Technology
Use with Other Forms of Play &
Learning
Guard Against Exposure to
Potentially Harmful Content &
Activities
Avoid Engaging in Behaviors that
Contribute to Harm
10. Empowerment
Harness the Emotional Power of
Media through Creative Play
Build Connections to Others
through Media
Use Media & Technology to
Activate Intellectual Curiosity &
Learning
17. How Do How Attitudes towards News Media,
Media Literacy and Video Production
Contribute to Adolescent Civic Engagement?
Promotes intercultural
communication
ResearchEvidence
20. AUTHORSHIP
Creative skills
Collaboration skills
Technical skills
MEDIA ANALYSIS
SKILLS
Comprehension
Identify Purpose
Recognize
Point of View
ATTITUDES
Giving & Receiving
Feedback
Intellectual
Curiosity
CIVIC
ENGAGEMENT
Sign an online
petition
Express an
opinion to news
media
Blog about an
issue
Write an opinion
letter
QUALITY OF
MEDIA CHOICES
Increases civic engagement
ResearchEvidence
22. How Many American Learners Get Exposed to
Digital & Media Literacy Education?
23. How Many American Learners Get Exposed to
Digital & Media Literacy Education?
How often did you discuss:
• how to tell if the information you
find online is trustworthy
• the importance of evaluating the
evidence that backs up people’s
opinions
Kahne & Bowyer (2017)
30%
26. human development
and public health
literacy & learning media
& communication
educational technology
society & culture
business & economy
DIGITAL
MEDIA
LITERACY
27. 1. Curriculum Materials & Resources
2. Adult/Teacher Education
3. Supportive Climate for Implementation
4. Professional Networks & Partnerships
5. Research, Assessment & Evaluation
6. Visibility, Storytelling & Promotion
What is Needed for
Digital & Media Literacy Education to Thrive?
Rhys tries to move people from one level to another. I talk about what parts are most common, and where we try to go. Renee talks about distinctions, and she speaks to them as interdisciplinary. Renee is pretty Frierian (spiral)...
These 6-year olds watched a YouTube video, then made their own video to ask questions to the author. After seeing the children’s video, the author responded, sending them back a YouTube video. The children gained confidence in asking questions and actively used the questioning process to learn.
An initiative of the PBS News Hour, PBS Student Reporting Labs is a digital and media literacy program that reaches thousands of high school students across the United States. Students learn about their communities, the environment, law and politics, the economy – and work collaboratively to create a video news segment,
These 6-year olds watched a YouTube video, then made their own video to ask questions to the author. After seeing the children’s video, the author responded, sending them back a YouTube video. The children gained confidence in asking questions and actively used the questioning process to learn.
An initiative of the PBS News Hour, PBS Student Reporting Labs is a digital and media literacy program that reaches thousands of high school students across the United States. Students learn about their communities, the environment, law and politics, the economy – and work collaboratively to create a video news segment,
Our research investigated learners who participated in the program: 544 students with 40% minority teens
Children in Grade 3 turned the teacher’s lesson upside down when they started asking questions during their teacher’s carefully planning fairy-tale lesson. They transformed the activity into learning about homelessness in their community – why it occurs and what can be done about it.
Learning to make media increased creative, collaboration and technical skills, improved their ability to identify the author’s purpose while watching a video, and contributed to advancing civic engagement – being interested in using the power of communication to make a difference in the world.
Digital and media literacy helps children and teens learn to use the power of communication – as both creators and consumers. Media literacy is like driver’s training for participating in the s1st century.