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Dr. Roderick Bugeja

Youth, Internet and Sexuality

Youth, Internet & Sexuality This presentation was delivered by Dr.Roderick Bugeja at the seminar organized by the Malta Communications Authority (MCA) on the subject of Internet Safety. Dr.Bugeja spoke about the types of sexual content that young people are exposed to and the...
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Marketa Zezulkowa

When Children Make Media: A Visit to the Hugh Cole School

I have been researching media education in primary and lower elementary schools around Europe and the United States for over a year, when I visited the Hugh Cole Elementary School (HCS) in Warren, Rhode Island and had the opportunity to observe how a successful media program can...
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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 as social networking, wikis, folksonomies, virtual societies, blogging, multiplayer...
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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 an important critical dimension to the use of technology in education, that moves...
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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 messages of all kinds. These are essential skills in today’s world. Today, many...
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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 program and the strategy adopted. The ‘why’ and ‘how’ of media education are discussed...
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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 between the concept of media education (i.e. the process of teaching and learning about...
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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 shifts in the literature on the teaching of media education. In this paper we will explore...
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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 world addresses us to produce the different identities we carry forward in life: men are...
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