DML Conf 2010: Mad Skills 1 of 6

Global Kids presented a number of sessions with a variety of partners at the first Digital Media and Learning Conference in San Diego, in February 2010. This is some of the video from that amazing day.

The following is a description of this presentation from the conference program:
Mad Skills: Making New Media Literacy practices accessible to educators and students alike
Chair: Erin Reilly (University of Southern California)
Participants: Barry Joseph (Global Kids, Inc.), Erin Reilly (University of Southern California), Flourish Klink (MIT)
In 2008-09, New Media Literacies tested the Media Makers Challenge Collection, 30 challenges to explore and practice the new media literacies (NMLs) and designed to address the participation gap (giving youth the chance to learn the NMLs, which broadens participation). The collection is designed to provide a springboard for educators to adapt the NMLs into their own situation. Media educators from Global Kids used the materials as inspiration to develop Media Masters, an after-school program at the High School for Global Citizenship to integrate the NMLs into a social issues learning environment. Media Masters helped learners acquire and reflect upon digital media production and analytic skills through youth engagement in participatory media. The paper presentation explores how educators can successfully integrate the NMLs into learning and reach those most at risk of being on the wrong side of the participation gap, those who aren't as likely to be involved in interest driven communities, or have people in their lives that model participation. The paper examines the ways in which specific challenges were deployed through the study, and we identify how teens were able to help drive the content and discussions and how they created an integrated learning ecology.

To review more material from this day, go to: http://www.tinyurl.com/gkatdml2010

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Education

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