Upcoming Events
Past Events
Media Archive
Registration History
|
|
NERCOMP EVENT
Media and Information Literacy for Emerging Technologies
 Printer Friendly Version
|
Students and educators are now creating and using a wider range of multimedia content in their classes, research, and personal lives. Media literacy, the ability to seek, evaluate, and incorporate multimedia has become an essential, but overlooked skill. This session, focused on media literacy in higher education, will explore the implications for educators and technologists of emerging technologies such as video games, film/multimedia clips, blogs, wikis and podcasts and the importance for students to understand multiple forms of media, and to find and evaluate sources critically and ethically.
Please bring a laptop with wireless internet capability, if you have one, for some small group interactive activities. If you are sending multiple representatives from your institution, bringing one laptop for every 2-3 people will be sufficient.
Workshop Organizer/Host: Sarah Walkowiak of Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date/Time:
Wednesday, October 04, 2006
9:00am - 3:30pm
Registration begins at 8:00am
Location:
Southbridge Hotel & Conference Center
14 Mechanic St.
Southbridge, MA
Click
Here for a Map
Click Here for Directions
Special instructions:
Pricing:
NERCOMP Members: $91
Non-Members: $191
By clicking on the "Register" button below, you are indicating a commitment to attend and will be held responsible for the registration fee.
Your fee can be refunded if you notify us of a cancellation at least 8 days prior to the event via email to nercomp@nercomp.org.
|
Additional Information
Event Schedule:
8:00am – 9:00am Registration and Coffee
9:00am – 10:30am Media Literacy: Critical Thinking About Media Messages in the 21st Century
Speaker: Frank Baker, Media Ed Consultant, Media Literacy Clearinghouse Inc,
It is clear that today's youth are media-savvy, but it is generally agreed, they are not media literate: they lack the critical thinking and viewing skills necessary to understand the power and influence of media messages. Frank Baker examines the push to get media literacy into state teaching standards and what some states are doing to educate teachers and students.
10:30am – 10:40am Break
10:40am – 12:00pm The Intersections of Information Literacy and Media Literacy
Speakers:
Sarah Walkowiak, Instructional Technology Specialist, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Christine Drew, Manager of Instruction & Outreach, Gordon Library, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Gordon Library
Information literacy as defined by the American Library Association is a set of abilities requiring individuals to "recognize when information is needed and have the ability to locate, evaluate, and use effectively the needed information." The Center for Media Literacy defines Media Literacy as "a 21st century approach to education that provides a framework to access, analyze, evaluate and create messages in a variety of forms."
In this session we will examine the shared interests of these two areas and discuss our experiences of working on information literacy and media based projects with faculty.
12:00pm – 1:00pm Lunch (lunch)
1:00pm – 2:30pm From the Digital Divide to the Participation Gap: Rethinking Media Literacy
Speaker: Henry Jenkins, Professor & Co-Director, Comparative Media Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Recent research by the Pew Center for Internet and American Life has found that more than half of American teenagers have produced media and many of them have distributed media they produced online. How should we rethink literacy for an era when a majority of our students are media producers? How are blogs, games, podcasts, and a host of other new media practices changing how young people think about themselves and their place in the world? What new cultural competencies and social skills are required, beyond what we are already teaching, to help these students become creative, ethical, and socially engaged participants in this new media culture? How do we confront the challenges of the participation gap, the divide between those who have access to core skills and cultural experiences and those who do not? In this presentation, Henry Jenkins shares the findings of a white paper he has prepared for the MacArthur Foundation presentation proposing ways that educators should be responding to shifts in the contemporary media landscape.
2:30pm – 3:30pm Media Literacy in Cyberspace: Developing and Maintaining Online Strategies for a Media Literate Society
Speaker: Julie Frechette, Associate Professor of Communication, Women's Studies Program Director, Worcester State College
From her book, Developing Media Literacy in Cyberspace: Pedagogy and Critical Learning for the Twenty-First-Century Classroom, Dr. Frechette will encourage educators and participants to establish the purpose and utility of their online excursions rather than prioritize access to communications technology within utopian virtual learning environments. The workshop aims to go beyond the communication end-goal of accessing the Information Superhighway; by exploring the means through which technological access is deployed, essentially asking what it means to be literate in the information age, how media literacy can be initiated online, and how the learning process can be transformed. By applying media literacy strategies to Internet technology, the author intends to help educators develop and provide tools for students to judge the validity and worth of Internet content as they strive to become critically autonomous in a technological world. Workshop participants will be encouraged to apply the media literacy model for cyberspace in an interactive lesson.
3:30pm End
Speaker:
Christine Drew
Christine Drew, M.L.S., Manager of Instruction and Outreach at WPI's Gordon Library has worked with business, technical and engineering professionals, undergraduate, and graduate students teaching information literacy skills. Her hope is to empower and enable them to be more successful in the complex information environments of the future.
Speaker:
Frank Baker
Frank Baker is a graduate of the University of Georgia (ABJ, Journalism). He worked
in television news from 1977 to 1986, at stations in South Carolina, Maryland and Florida. In 1987, he joined the Orange County (Orlando, FL) Public School System as an administrator in the areas of Instructional TV/Distance Education. While there, he collaborated with both Time Warner Cable and The Orlando Sentinel to bring media literacy education to teachers and students in the nation’s 16th largest school district. Upon returning to South Carolina in 1997, he taught a college level media literacy course for educators and developed a nationally recognized media literacy resource website. His 1999 content analysis of all 50 state's teaching standards revealed that almost all states have some "elements of media literacy." He is past president of the Alliance for a Media Literate America (AMLA) and past vice-president of the National Telemedia Council (NTC). He is a frequent presenter at schools and conferences across the United States. Frank worked for South Carolina ETV (PBS), from February 1998-mid June 2003. He has assisted the SC State Department of Education's English Language Arts team in revising the state teaching standards to include media literacy. He contributes a monthly media literacy column to the SDE ELA Literacy Links newsletter. Portions of his film study guide to the classic "To Kill A Mockingbird" have been published in Australian SCREEN EDUCATION magazine. He serves on the National Council for Teachers of English "Commission on Media." Currently, he is an educational consultant.
Speaker:
Henry Jenkins
Henry Jenkins (John E. Burchard Professor of Humanities) is the Director of the Comparative Media Studies graduate program. His books include Science Fiction Audiences: Watching Doctor Who and Star Trek; Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture; From Barbie to Mortal Kombat, a study of gender, narrative and video games; The Children's Culture Reader; and Hop on Pop: The Politics and Pleasures of Popular Culture. His current research interests center around digital aesthetics, media convergence, transmedia storytelling, computer games, and youth culture. He discusses these and many other topics relating to the intersection of culture and technology through his column, "The Digital Renaissance," featured each month in Technology Review."
Speaker:
Julie Frechette
Julie Frechette is an Associate Professor of Communication, the Director of Women’s Studies, and the Co-Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning at Worcester State College. Her work on media literacy has been featured in: The National Telemedia Council 50th anniversary edition of Telemedium: The Journal of Media Literacy as part of the Emerging Scholars in Media Literacy series; the special journal issue of Library Trends: The Commercialized Web: Challenges for Libraries and Democracies; Critical Thinking for the Cyberage; The National Society for the Study of Education Journal on Media Literacy: Transforming Curriculum and Teaching (University of Illinois Press, 2005, Volume: 104 Issue: 1), Cyber-Democracy or Cyber-Hegemony? Exploring the Political and Economic Structures of the Internet as an Alternative Source of Information; she has presented at numerous conferences, including The University of London, and is publishing a chapter on the importance of digital literacy initiatives in a book for the University of London Center for the Study of Children, Youth and Media, (2006).
Speaker:
Sarah Walkowiak
Sarah Walkowiak is an Instructional Technology Specialist in the Academic Technology Center at WPI. Sarah supports faculty members in the application of technology-based solutions to the instructional process. Sarah has a strong interest in Media Literacy and is currently pursuing a Master of Science degree in Professional Communication at Clark University.
Related Media Files:
infomedialit-SIG-7.ppt
Note page sent to conf organizers.doc
media lit southridge.ppt
5ques-5concepts.pdf
ALA-Standards.pdf
NewNERCOMP.ppt
Contact Information:
Lisa DiMauro
860-345-2081
ldimauro@wesleyan.edu
Hotel Information:
Please call the Southbridge Hotel directly at 508.765.8000. The room rate is $119.
Technical Requirements:
|
|
NERCOMP reserves the right to use any photographs or other mechanical recordings taken at NERCOMP events in promotional materials.
No mechanical recordings of any kind may be used at NERCOMP events without the prior written consent of NERCOMP organizers and presenters.
The views and opinions expressed at NERCOMP events do not necessarily reflect those of NERCOMP, nor does NERCOMP make any representation regarding the information presented at NERCOMP events.
|
|
|
 |
|
EDUCAUSE
Read more about our affiliate organization, EDUCAUSE
and how we all work together to further the cause of using technology to
improve academia....
|
|
|
|
NERCOMP 2010 Annual Conference - Register Now
Monday, March 08, 2010
NERCOMP 2010, "The Next-Generation University: Rethinking IT in Disruptive Times."
Whether your...
|
|
|
|