"In environments where poor infrastructure, minimal access to technology, and small-scale economies impede the creation or sustainability of mainstream independent media, and in countries where repressive governments limit the ability of professional journalists to operate freely, citizen journalist
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s are filling the gaps. Yet citizen journalists often have no formal journalism training nor - perhaps more critically - any training in the essential roles independent media play in ensuring accountable and transparent government. This report investigates how the U.S. government, international institutions, and private foundations are trying to teach this new cohort of semi-journalists to be media literate." (Executive summary)
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"Para que a sociedade da informação seja uma sociedade plural, inclusiva e participativa, hoje, mais do que nunca, é necessário oferecer a todos os cidadãos, principalmente aos jovens, as competências para saber compreender a informação, ter o distanciamento necessário à análise crítica,
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utilizar e produzir informações e todo tipo de mensagens. Esta convicção inspirou este artigo, cujo objetivo é apresentar algumas tendências atuais da mídia-educação no mundo, seus conceitos e ações, buscando contribuir para seu desenvolvimento no Brasil. Mídia-educação é importante porque vivemos num mundo onde as mídias estão onipresentes, sendo preciso considerar sua importância na vida social, particularmente no que diz respeito aos jovens. Promover a mídia-educação é importante também porque as defasagens, que separam muitas vezes os sistemas educacionais do mundo que nos rodeia, prejudicam a formação das novas gerações para a vida adulta." (Resumo)
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"Media literacy training is a tool the development sector can use to educate citizens and other stakeholders to better understand the role of information in a democracy and pressure governments to be accountable and to root out corruption. A media literate citizenry is essential to building and sust
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aining democracy." (Executive summary)
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"This paper provides a conceptual framework for the identification of indicators of information literacy (IL) and proposes a pathway for cost effective and timely development. The paper includes a definition of IL; a model that links information literacy with other adult competencies including Infor
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mation and Communication Technology (ICT) skills; and a description of IL standards in education. Issues of IL equality and the implications of cultural diversity are identified." (Executive summary)
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"The essays in this volume reflect a wide-range of issues and concerns related to children’s media culture in Africa. For example, several address the role of entertainment television in Addis Abba, Ghana, South Africa, Kenya, and Zambia and in the lives of Muslim children. Other essays introduce
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us to children-centered media from Ghana, South Africa, and Zimbabwe, and the innovative programs of PLAN-International. In addition to entertainment media and children-centered media, media education and digital media literacy are also discussed." (Publisher description)
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"Medienbildung in der Schule – in Lehrplänen vorgeschrieben, doch wie durchführen, wenn nur begrenzt Zeit zur Verfügung steht? In dem Projekt „Journalismus mit Jugendlichen für Jugendliche“ wurde ein konkreter Ansatz entwickelt und bisher mit rund 1500 Schülerinnen und Schülern umgesetzt
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. In Unterrichtseinheiten lernen die SchülerInnen Grundlagen des Journalismus. Sie konzipieren in Gruppen einen Beitrag und verwirklichen ihre Ideen – wenn möglich – an einem Drehtag mithilfe von professionellen JournalistInnen. Die Umsetzung im Unterricht erfolgt mithilfe der DVD und CD-ROM „Die Realität der Medien“. Die DVD liefert Videobausteine mit Wissen zur Gestaltung eines Fernsehbeitrags. Die CD-ROM beinhaltet Materialien und Tipps für Unterrichtsaktionen. Das Projekt wurde intensiv qualitativ und quantitativ evaluiert. Gesucht wurde nach medienbildenden Prozessen und Lernerfolgen der Unterrichtseinheiten. Analysiert wurden aber auch die Diskussionen, Meinungen und Werke der Jugendlichen. Das Ergebnis: Ihre journalistischen Qualitätskriterien und das Typische ihrer eigenen Produktionen, das sie von professionellen Beiträgen unterscheidet." (Klappentext)
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