By Wolfgang Althof Democracy cannot be taken for granted. Democrats don’t grow on trees. We need to educate them because a society of idiots cannot survive. Walter Parker, in an article entitled “Teaching against idiocy”, explains that the ancient Greeks used this term differently from what it means today – being stupid. The idiot is […]
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AC/DC and the Case against Idiocy in the Digital Age: How Media Literacy and Civic Literacy Go Hand in Hand
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Media Literacy & K-12 Education
~From Education Today, a blog from the Greater St. Louis Cooperating School Districts.
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Media Illiteracy: A Look at Access
By Joan Esserman “The basic news literacy argument is that you can’t get the vaccine in someone’s mouth until you get the idea in that someone’s head that the vaccine is good for you,” says Eric Newton, senior adviser to the president, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. Most of us visiting the Gateway […]
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Momentary Communities, Media Literacy and Organized Labor
By Robert Russell Information has become more important than the source of information. –Michael Hall, Director of New Media, New England Sports Network[1] During my recent twenty-year high school reunion, I paused to think about how much media has changed since I graduated. In the heady days of the early 1990s, select few networks ruled […]
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The Cure for Cancer?…or Media Hype?
By Gary Ratkin, M.D. FACP “The Time Is Now, Together, We Will End Cancer” read the headlines and went on to refer to the “Moon Shots Programs” needed to make a giant leap for patients. The cure for cancer or media hype? Is this 1971, when President Nixon signed the National Cancer Act declaring war […]
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Media Literacy: A Community College Perspective
By Georgia Costello, Ph.D. To at least one concerned legislator, the need for media literacy among prospective college students is underscored by a current TV commercial for Education Connection, a website that “can connect you to the right school for your unique needs and lifestyle – for free.” “The (Education Connection) ad that just […]
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Save the Date: UNESCO Dignitary Speaks to Community Oct. 28
Thanks to longtime friend and collaborator, Cable in the Classroom, Alton Grizzle, UNESCO’s Programme Specialist in Communication and Information, will travel to the United States especially to headline Gateway Media Literacy Partners’ Sixth Media Literacy Week, 3-6P.M., Oct. 28, at the Ethical Society, Ladue, Mo. Themed ” International Media Literacy: A Basic Human Right?,“ the […]
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Miss Representation featured at Cinema St. Louis International Film Festival Nov. 12th
“Miss Representation” explores the under-representation of women in positions of influence in America and challenges the media’s limited portrayal of what it means to be a powerful woman. The film persuasively demonstrates that media are educating yet another generation that a woman’s primary value lay in her youth, beauty, and sexuality, making it difficult for […]
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How Video Communities Transform Learning and Teaching
Many thanks to our friend, Don Goble, for passing this presentation along: How Video Communities Transform Learning and Teaching View more presentations from Karsten D. Wolf
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Is Digital Education a Luxury for At-Risk Youth?
A topic near and dear to media literacy folks…
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Media Literacy Week 2013
- Why Media Literacy is Important – 2013 Guest Contributors
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Understanding America via Media Literacy: A Chinese Student’s View
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Inclusion, Acceptance and Equality
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Making the Pieces Fit: One Journalist’s View
