Edward Wright
Edward Wright is the Head of Department for Media Education and PSD at the Secretariat for Catholic Education. He also teaches PSD, Social Studies and Environmental Studies at St. Michael’s... Continue Reading
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//May 30, 2013
Education 2.0? Designing the web for teaching and learning
The past five years or so have seen growing excitement within the educational community about web 2.0 technologies. ‘Web 2.0’ is an umbrella term for a host of recent internet applications such... Continue Reading
David Buckingham
Media education goes digital: an introduction
This editorial introduction provides an overview of the challenges and opportunities presented to media educators by the advent of digital technologies. It argues that media education can provide... Continue Reading
Media Literacy Project
Introduction to Media Literacy
Media literacy is a set of skills that anyone can learn. Just as literacy is the ability to read and write, media literacy refers to the ability to access, analyze, evaluate and create media... Continue Reading
Joseph Borg, Mary Anne Lauri
Media Education In Malta: Historical Perspectives And Current Developments
This paper discusses the development of the media education program as it was conceptualized in 1980 and how it developed to the present day. It examines the reasons for the introduction of the... Continue Reading
Joseph Borg, Mary Anne Lauri
Empowering Children in a Changing Media Environment
Malta is one of the seven European countries where media literacy has for many years been a component of the school curriculum (European Commission, 2007). (Buckingham (2003) differentiates... Continue Reading
Joseph Borg, Mary Anne Lauri
This paper analyses the development in the teaching of the Catholic Church on media education as expressed in its official documents. These will be analysed in the light of the paradigmatic... Continue Reading
Clive Piscopo
Combining Technical and Critical Skills for Effective Processing of Short Films
The following are 5 short clips of various length that were mentioned and discussed in Clive Piscopo’s session on Combining Technical and Critical Skills for Effective Processing of Short... Continue Reading
Clive Piscopo
Clive Piscopo graduated with an MA in English in Modern and Contemporary Literature and Theory in 2007. For the past 8 years he has been teaching English language and literature in the morning... Continue Reading
Ira Shor
What is critical literacy?
We are what we say and do. The way we speak and are spoken to help shape us into the people we become. Through words and other actions, we build ourselves in a world that is building us. That... Continue Reading
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