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Improvization And Strategic Risk Taking In Informal Learning With Digital Media Literacy, Renee Hobbs
Improvization And Strategic Risk Taking In Informal Learning With Digital Media Literacy, Renee Hobbs
Renee Hobbs
The city provides a rich array of learning opportunities for young children. However, in many urban schools, often it can be logistically difficult to get young children out of the building. But when elementary children are encouraged to view the city as a classroom and use digital media to explore and represent their neighborhoods, they can be inspired by the unpredictable events of daily life to ask naive, critical and sometimes troubling questions. This paper presents a case study of a teacher in an informal media literacy learning environment who worked with a group of 9-year-olds in Philadelphia. It documents …
African-American Children’S Active Reasoning About Media Texts As A Precursor To Media Literacy., Renee Hobbs
African-American Children’S Active Reasoning About Media Texts As A Precursor To Media Literacy., Renee Hobbs
Renee Hobbs
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Don't Criticise The Effects Of Video Games On Kids, Exploit Them!, Jeffrey E. Brand
Don't Criticise The Effects Of Video Games On Kids, Exploit Them!, Jeffrey E. Brand
Jeffrey Brand
[Extract] For young learners today, video games are part of the "cultural furniture". The development of boys and girls, their socialisation, and their formal learning (including literacy) are at risk if they reject contemporary media. What humanises technology most completely is appropriation of it. As any parent or teacher who has tried it knows, using popular media in the service of formal learning most readily overcomes the risk attributed to them. It also eliminates the source of moral panics: ignorance about the learners' world.