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How (And Why) Nclb Failed To Close The Achievement Gap:Evidence From North Carolina, 1998-2004, Roslyn Mickelson, Jason Giersch, Elizabeth Stearns, Stephanie Moller
How (And Why) Nclb Failed To Close The Achievement Gap:Evidence From North Carolina, 1998-2004, Roslyn Mickelson, Jason Giersch, Elizabeth Stearns, Stephanie Moller
The Bridge: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Legal & Social Policy
Recent state and national policy changes for public education are premised upon the idea that high-stakes tests can improve student outcomes and close achievement gaps. Opponents maintain that such policies fail on both counts. Using a unique longitudinal dataset from North Carolina, we find that high-stakes tests have failed to close achievement gaps associated with social class and race, and that the persistence of these gaps is related, at least in part, to academic tracking. Such findings add to the questions being raised about such policies as No Child Left Behind.
Speculative Design And Curriculum Development: Using Worldbuilding To Imagine A New Major In A Post-Course Era, Holly Willis, Steve Anderson
Speculative Design And Curriculum Development: Using Worldbuilding To Imagine A New Major In A Post-Course Era, Holly Willis, Steve Anderson
Journal of Media Literacy Education
Randy Bass, Executive Director of Georgetown’s Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship, recently made the provocative claim that we inhabit a “post-course era.” Building on the findings of the National Survey of Student Engagement that show that the places in which undergraduate students demonstrate the highest degree of engagement is in areas outside the traditional curriculum and its courses, Bass suggests that we not merely try to enrich the formal curriculum, but that we also consider supporting and augmenting activities in the “extra” curriculum. We can thereby create opportunities for learning within informal as well as formal settings. …
Expanding Learning Opportunities With Transmedia Practices: Inanimate Alice As An Exemplar, Laura Fleming
Expanding Learning Opportunities With Transmedia Practices: Inanimate Alice As An Exemplar, Laura Fleming
Journal of Media Literacy Education
The proliferation of digital and networking technologies enables us to rethink, restructure, and redefine teaching and learning. Transmedia storytelling takes advantage of the rapid convergence of media and allows teachers and learners to participate in rich virtual (and physical) environments that have been shown to foster students’ real emotional engagement with the process of learning. Transmedia learning applies storytelling techniques across multiple platforms to create immersive educational experiences that enable manifold entry and exit points for learning and teaching. By utilizing constructivist and connectivist precepts in the application of these techniques, we can create pedagogies that are transformative on many …
Transmedia Play: Literacy Across Media, Meryl Alper, Rebecca Herr-Stephenson
Transmedia Play: Literacy Across Media, Meryl Alper, Rebecca Herr-Stephenson
Journal of Media Literacy Education
Transmedia play is a new way to understand how children develop critical media literacy and new media literacies through their interactions with contemporary media that links stories and structures across platforms. This essay highlights five characteristics of transmedia play that make it particularly useful for learning: resourcefulness, sociality, mobility, accessibility, and replayability, and explains how each characteristic relates to digital and media literacy education.
Guest Editor’S Introduction, Erin Reilly
Guest Editor’S Introduction, Erin Reilly
Journal of Media Literacy Education
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Approaches To Learning With Media And Media Literacy Education – Trends And Current Situation In Germany, Gerhard Tulodziecki, Silke Grafe
Approaches To Learning With Media And Media Literacy Education – Trends And Current Situation In Germany, Gerhard Tulodziecki, Silke Grafe
Journal of Media Literacy Education
German approaches to media literacy education are concerned with the questions, how the variety of media can be used in a meaningful way for learning and teaching and what educational tasks result from the extensive use of media. Considering these questions there are various conceptual ideas, research and development projects as well as implementations into practice in the field of education and teacher training. The development and the current situation of approaches to media literacy education in Germany are described and discussed in the article. Thereby, the focus is on media literacy education in schools.
What A Difference Ten Years Can Make: Research Possibilities For The Future Of Media Literacy Education, Renee Hobbs
What A Difference Ten Years Can Make: Research Possibilities For The Future Of Media Literacy Education, Renee Hobbs
Journal of Media Literacy Education
No abstract provided.
Media Literacy And Health Promotion For Adolescents, Lynda Bergsma
Media Literacy And Health Promotion For Adolescents, Lynda Bergsma
Journal of Media Literacy Education
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Media Literacy, Congratulations! Now, The Next Step, Jordi Torrent
Media Literacy, Congratulations! Now, The Next Step, Jordi Torrent
Journal of Media Literacy Education
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Media Literacy Education: Harnessing The Technological Imaginary, Katherine G. Fry
Media Literacy Education: Harnessing The Technological Imaginary, Katherine G. Fry
Journal of Media Literacy Education
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Ask, Don’T Tell: Pedagogy For Media Literacy Education In The Next Decade, Faith Rogow
Ask, Don’T Tell: Pedagogy For Media Literacy Education In The Next Decade, Faith Rogow
Journal of Media Literacy Education
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Media Literacy Education: On The Move, Margaret Carmody Hagood
Media Literacy Education: On The Move, Margaret Carmody Hagood
Journal of Media Literacy Education
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The Coming Of Age Of Media Literacy, Vanessa Domine
The Coming Of Age Of Media Literacy, Vanessa Domine
Journal of Media Literacy Education
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Participatory Learning Environments And Collective Meaning Making Practice, Erin Reilly
Participatory Learning Environments And Collective Meaning Making Practice, Erin Reilly
Journal of Media Literacy Education
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New Civic Voices & The Emerging Media Literacy Landscape, Paul Mihailidis
New Civic Voices & The Emerging Media Literacy Landscape, Paul Mihailidis
Journal of Media Literacy Education
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10 Years Of Media Literacy Education In K-12 Schools, Rhys Daunic
10 Years Of Media Literacy Education In K-12 Schools, Rhys Daunic
Journal of Media Literacy Education
No abstract provided.
Editor’S Introduction, Amy Petersen Jensen
Editor’S Introduction, Amy Petersen Jensen
Journal of Media Literacy Education
No abstract provided.
Using Collaborative Writing Tools For Literary Analysis: Twitter, Fan Fiction And The Crucible In The Secondary English Classroom, Jenna Mcwilliams, Daniel T. Hickey, Mary Beth Hines, Jennifer M. Conner, Stephen C. Bishop
Using Collaborative Writing Tools For Literary Analysis: Twitter, Fan Fiction And The Crucible In The Secondary English Classroom, Jenna Mcwilliams, Daniel T. Hickey, Mary Beth Hines, Jennifer M. Conner, Stephen C. Bishop
Journal of Media Literacy Education
No abstract provided.
School-Based Smoking Prevention With Media Literacy: A Pilot Study, Melinda C. Bier, Spring J. Schmidt, David Shields, Lara Zwarun, Stephen Sherblom, Brian Primack, Cynthia Pulley, Billy Rucker
School-Based Smoking Prevention With Media Literacy: A Pilot Study, Melinda C. Bier, Spring J. Schmidt, David Shields, Lara Zwarun, Stephen Sherblom, Brian Primack, Cynthia Pulley, Billy Rucker
Journal of Media Literacy Education
School-based tobacco prevention programs have had limited success reducing smoking rates in the long term. Media literacy programs offer an innovative vehicle for delivery of potentially more efficacious anti-tobacco education. However, these programs have been neither widely implemented nor well evaluated. We conducted a pre-post evaluation of a cross-disciplinary tobacco media literacy program. The sample consisted of 204 students across six schools. Results indicated that students’ smoking-specific media literacy and general media literacy measures increased significantly over the course of the intervention.
“Sounds Great, But I Don’T Have Time!” Helping Teachers Meet Their Goals And Needs, Cynthia Scheibe
“Sounds Great, But I Don’T Have Time!” Helping Teachers Meet Their Goals And Needs, Cynthia Scheibe
Journal of Media Literacy Education
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Towards A “Cloud Curriculum” In Art And Science?, Roger Malina
Towards A “Cloud Curriculum” In Art And Science?, Roger Malina
The STEAM Journal
Recently an email hit my desk from Paul Thomas in Australia with a proposal to work together on a “Cloud Curriculum for Art and Science”. I immediately agreed to collaborate. I don’t yet have a clue of what a cloud curriculum is, but what I do know is that we are ‘backing into the future’ in educational institutions and we desperately need a ‘cloud curriculum.’ We need to look over the ten year horizon. And in the emerging art-science field I doubt that the usual approach to curriculum development will work.
“With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility”: Privileged Students’ Conceptions Of Justice-Oriented Citizenship, Katy Swalwell
“With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility”: Privileged Students’ Conceptions Of Justice-Oriented Citizenship, Katy Swalwell
Democracy and Education
How do students from privileged communities respond to educational efforts encouraging them to become justice-oriented citizens? Observational and interview data collected during a semester-long case study of eleven high school students in a social studies class at an elite private school reveal four markedly different interpretations of their teacher's call to be justice-oriented citizens. Under Westheimer and Kahne’s (2004) conceptions of citizenship as an analytical frame, only one of these interpretations aligns with the tenets of justice-oriented citizenship and the desired outcomes of social justice pedagogy. Given that all eleven students considered themselves to be justice oriented, these findings reveal …