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panel discussion on Media Literacy
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Karthik
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Hello and welcome to the seminar on Media Literacy. Today's Panelist are Lalitha Vasudevan, Professor of Technology & Education and Director of the Media and Social Change Lab at Teachers College; Ioana Literat, Assistant Professor of Communication, Media and Learning Technologies Design; Yoo Kyung Chang, Lecturer, Communication, Media and Learning Technologies Design; Emily Bailin Wells (Ed.D. ‘18), Adjunct Assistant Professor, Communication, Media and Learning Technologies Design; Michelle Ciulla-Lipkin, Executive Director of the National Association for Media Literacy Education; and Jessica Wolff, Director of Policy and Research at the Center for Educational Equity.
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Loana feels creativity is an important part. As the NAME definition states, it's not only the ability to consume, but also to create more effectively and meaningfully.
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She adds that she hates the term web 2.0 as we are in a new era, where there is an opportunity to create media and engage in a meaningful dialogue.
Jessica Wolf likes to look at media literacy from the educational rights based perspective."
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Michelle finds Media literacy is the ability to access, analyse, evaluate, create and act using all forms of communication.
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Michelle states:" You cannot be called truly literate in this world unless u understand all forms of communication"
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Emily Bailin Wells who is a Lecturer of communication media and learning techniques at Teachers College defines media literacy as reframing literally practices and thinking of literacies as being "multiple literacies" and seeing how they all interest and are prevalent. This is important for adults and young people. Focusing on critical thinking skills and critical making skills are important.
Yoo Kyung Chang, who is a lecturer of Communication, Media and Learning Technologies Design at Teacher’s College, Columbia University, talks about design literacy and its implication on how we think and on other people’s media literacy; information literacy and it’s considerations.
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Loana says that her team is working with the media and social change lab.
Lalitha Vasudevan, Professor of Technology & Education and Director of Media & Social Change Lab at Teachers College, moderates the discussion on media literacy. She stressed on the commonality between the way all the panelists think of media and the role it plays in society.
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Also, Loana and her team are working on fake news game. And for her, media literacy is more important than fake news but unfortunately, the spotlight is on fake news.
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Michelle: "Media literacy should be a goal for everyone. Media literacy skills must be built from the youngest to the oldest learner in both formal and informal educational space. It is life long learning process"
Loana is also engaging with new people to reach fake news and also help them in design.
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Chang says that: “One of the best things about working with youth is that they are confident about their News literacy, not just about identifying fake news but also general literacy". She adds that adults often look at their technical literacy and confuse it with media literacy.
Jessica Wolf: "I think there's a pretty broad consensus, both in researchers and practitioners, about the importance of media literacy as an element of preparation for civic participation and it certainly was the coalitions first policy area that they all wanted to pursue as a group."
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Michelle: “There is no minimum age for media literacy. It must be there in primary and high school. “
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Emily who's served as a media literacy curriculum consultant believed there should be a specific class for media literacy, but now she believes the curriculum needs to be more interactive.
Jessica Wolf: "When I think about it as part of right to education, I am thinking about how can we use education policy and practice to make sure that it's something that students have access to in every school and not just in schools where the faculty happen to value it or the community thinks it is important."
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Lalitha thinks of ideas as stances and speaks about intersections of social justice and anti-racist pedagogy. And further, asks the panelists, why media literacy matters to them?
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Emily says she comes to media literacy from a very personal space, and she discovered media literacy in college and she could have used it years ago, in terms of race and gender. She didn't know she could ask critical questions about the media. She also believes about being an active creator. She acknowledges her privilege and speaks of intersecting identities, and their relationship to popular culture. Media literacy is an emancipatory process and Emily connects to it on a personal level.
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Loana explains how she embraced the line of inquiry. She adds that she's interested in youth online creativity. She enjoys to be in social media where youth are active socially, culturally. She noticed that during 2016 presidential election, the non political space were turning very political in a really meaningful way. They connect through their peers here.
Michelle: “ We see civic engagement and media literacy in a really big way and we are doing a lot of work to know how these two are linked”
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While quoting Winston Churchill, "Never let a good crisis go to waste," Loana continues, how social media helps people to express political rights and ideas. She further explains how a political expression can be turned into civic engagement and political participation, as they are the voters of tomorrow.
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Chang explains the concept of privacy and how people have evolved to discuss private things in front of machines like Amazon Echo, which they won’t discuss in the public otherwise.
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Michelle: "There is a tension as to WHAT to teach in media literacy and HOW to teach and HOW is that important. All teachers must have the required training to bring media literacy into classrooms through various media study courses"
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