AUDIO: Media literacy hits the real world -- lessons from Boston English

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AUDIO: Media literacy hits the real world -- lessons from Boston English
By MGP Staff
Oct 27, 2007, 12:52

What happens when a video teacher and administrator at Boston English High School start to infuse media-literacy principles in the school day? Listen to this unedited audio of a session at the Oct. 27, 2007 media literacy conference at MIT: "Creating and Learning in a Media Saturated Culture." The panel, lead by Renee Hobbs, of Temple University, included (in first order of speaking): Rona Zickower, of Media Power Youth, Manchester, N.H.; Xavier Rozas, media teacher, Boston English High School; and Chris Toulet-cote, assistant headmaster of English High. Click here to launch an audio stream, or DOWNLOAD MP3 PODCAST.

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Participation, transparency and ethics are three core challenges facing the field of media-literacy education, according to MIT Prof. Henry Jenkins. Jenkins keynoted an Oct. 27, 2007, day-long "2007 Media Literacy Conference: Creating and Learning in a Media Saturated Culture" at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

AUDIO: Listen to a 58-minute streaming excerpt of Jenkins' talk by clicking on the Hipcast carat below. Or download an MP3 PODCAST:

Jenkins says there's a participation gap because only abougt 57% of youth say they have produced media while the other 43% remain passive media consumers. Education efforts need to be transaparent, he says, not pitting old literacies such as reading, against new literacies such as video production or virtual-reality gaming. And educators must figure out how to address the challenge of teaching media ethics to youth without resorting to what Jenkins terms a "surveillance culture."

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