Session Information
06 SES 11, Media Education
Paper Session
Contribution
The research study here presented was carried out within the European project «On Air» (http://www.onair.medmediaeducation.it), a two years initiative funded by the European Commission under the Life Long Learning Program 2008/2010 and promoted by the Italian Association of Media Education (MED) and the University La Sapienza (Rome, Italy).
The research was carried out in six European countries, i.e. Belgium, Bulgaria, Italy, Lithuania, Poland and Romania, with the purpose to consider media educational practices as research objects, reflect on pedagogical models and teaching instruments used in the field of ME, define tools to document and evaluate Media Education (ME) practices, and develop instruments to assess media competences.
The overall study was divided into two main research areas, one focusing on sociological aspects and the other on pedagogical issues and practices. In particular, the pedagogical research was articulated into three main phases, i.e. (1) Analysis of ME practices; (2) Designing and developing ME modules; and (3) Testing ME modules (see next section).
The present workshop aims at presenting and discussing the results of the pedagogical research. It will be structured in two parts, one dedicated to the overall theoretical framework of the study and the other focused on its main results in terms of findings and products.
The first contribution will introduce the theoretical framework of the research project, providing a definition for the concept of media competence and focusing on principles to design ME courses and to develop tools to assess media competences.
The second part of the workshop will focus on the practice of ME. On one hand, it will be presented the online data base implemented during the first phase of the project (1), containing about 300 educational media practices (http://www.onair.medmediaeducation.it/casestudies.aspx). A special attention will be placed on some examples of «good practices» for media educators. On the other hand, the ME modules developed and tested during phases (2) and (3) will be illustrated (http://www.onair.medmediaeducation.it/educationalpackages.aspx), focusing on the contents and the results of the testing of two modules, i.e.:
A) "To be or not to be…digital teens?" - an education experience on the issue of Internet credibility and the development of critical thinking skills. In line with other research studies, during the activity students showed they have a lot of naïve beliefs on the way the Internet works and on the source credibility problem. The school activity carried out in class called into question such naïve beliefs, accomplishing some initial positive results;
B) "My YouTube" between consumption awareness and online identity building - a learning activity aimed at developing students’ awareness on media consumption. Through an activity centred on You Tube students gradually discover their personal media preferences and develop more sophisticated competences of media consumption.
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Expected Outcomes
References
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