ACME board member Jacques Brodeur has again been taking media education across the Atlantic, expanding on the Défi sans écrans (Screen-free Challenge) movement and programming that he has been spreading and teaching about for over a decade. The world of media education—and the Action Coalition for Media Education—is lucky to have him. October 4, École d’Ingeneurs et…
The Educational Video Center presents a weeklong production-based institute at City-As-School in New York City: July 25 – 29, 9–3; $475. In this five-day professional development intensive, teachers and youth workers will learn to plan, facilitate, and assess Common Core–aligned media project-based units that will build students’ 21st-century literacy, critical thinking, and artistic storytelling skills.…
Cosponsored by Project Censored ACTION IN MEDIA EDUCATION New Directions for Media Literacy Education in the Digital Age We hope you will join us on April 15 and 16 for ACME’s fifth international media-education summit, hosted by and organized with SHU’s Media Literacy & Digital Culture graduate program and cosponsored with Project Censored. This event,…
We are looking forward to seeing you at the Action in Media Education summit at Sacred Heart University, our fifth international media education summit! For those who need directions (from the airport or if traveling by car), visit Sacred Heart’s page on visiting the university. If you are traveling by air, the nearest airport is Bradley International. Some attendees…
Are you a media educator or a media activist? Do you have work to share with others who are similarly action-oriented? Come to Sacred Heart University in April and engage with others around the lessons learned from successes and failures in media action! Submit a proposal for a session at ACME’s fifth summit, Action In Media…
“The more we see of the work being done in media literacy, the more work we realize there is to do.” —Allison Butler, Mass Media Literacy On November 20 and 21, The Centre for Excellence in Media Practice, based at Bournemouth University in England, held its 2015 international media summit at Emerson College in Boston. The…
Our partners at Mass Media Literacy are doing excellent work both in teacher training/curriculum development and in legislative lobbying. Please consider contributing to their efforts with a tax-deductible donation. Dear Friend, Would you believe that teenagers spend nine hours a day in front of entertainment media?1 And that young teens rank entertainment media as their…
From our friends at the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood… Hello Barbie, in a landslide! The votes are in for the 2015 TOADY (Toys Oppressive And Destructive to Young children) Award, and the creepy eavesdropping Hello Barbie blew away the competition with 57% of the vote. The Brands We Know book series was runner-up (14.5%), followed by…
A psychiatrist offers insight on going screen-free as an intervention for children presenting behavioral challenges: “As is my usual practice during an evaluation, I ask this mother about her son’s screen-time habits and for a timeline of when various devices were acquired over the last several years. I explain to her how electronic screen-time, particularly the interactive kind, can overstimulate and stress…
The debut screening of the new film Dysfunctional Societies: Why Inequality Matters will take place at 2 p.m. on December 9 at Sacred Heart University’s Martire Building, home of the new School of Communication and Digital Arts. Our friend Sut Jhally will introduce the film and lead a discussion following the screening. Dr. Jhally will also…
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