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Metro Toronto Convention Centre (South Building) 255 Front Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5V 2W6 | |||||
| Tuesday, May 16, 2000 -- 10.45 to 12.15 | |
| CHILDREN, TELEVISION, STORYTELLING & PUBLIC SERVICE VALUES |
In a study on TV drama, children consistently drew on public service criteria of 'education', 'helping', 'learning', to defend scheduling choices. This bias is discussed to suggest that children's discourse draws on adult cultural representations. Máire Messenger Davies, UK |
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| A PLACE CALLED SCHOOL? SCHOOL ARCHITECTURE, JUMBLED GEOGRAPHICS & THE POWER OF PLACE |
The tragedy at Columbine High made clear that the sites in which learning "takes place" include classrooms, hallways, the street, television spaces & cyberspace. What happens to social space, knowledge & identity in an era that sees the merger of local, technological, virtual & media environments? Bob Morgan, Canada |
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| PERSUASION Y PUBLICIDAD | Estamos inmersos en la Era de la Informacion, donde cada vez se nos presenta mas informacion en menos tiempo. La Publicidad es una importante fuente de informacion con nuevas estrategias para comunicar de forma mas instantanea. Sara Osuna Acedo, Spain |
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| LOS MEDIOS DE COMUNICACIÓN Y LOS SECTORES POPULARES |
La viabilidad y sentido de un programa de Educación en Medios específico para escuelas cutya población escolar proviene de sectores populares. A partir de la particular relación que los niños de sectores populares establecen con los medios ¿tendrá sentido pensar en un programa de medios para estas escuela? Roxanna Morduchowicz, Argentina |
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| MEDIA EDUCATION IN IRELAND: AN HISTORICAL OVERVIEW |
Irish media education from the 1970s to the present. The prospects for a development of this program against the background of competing demands for technological education as well as the revision of more traditional humanities-based subjects. Brian O'Neill, Ireland |
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| MASS MEDIA GENDER IMAGES & THE NIGERIAN GIRL CHILD |
By presenting a gendered view of the world, media compound the problem that the Nigerian girl child is extremely disadvantaged. How do children 'read' the gender images that are presented? How do the images shape the girl child's perception of herself & of reality? Chinyere Stella Okunna, Nigeria |
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| VIDEOCULTURE: APPROACH & RESULTS OF AN INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH PROJECT |
The project investigates the ways in which young people from different countries produce, exchange & interpret video productions. We will outline the theoretical and methodological background & present some of the most important findings. Horst Niesyto, Germany; David Buckingham, United Kingdom; JoEllen Fisherkeller, USA |
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| DIGITAL LITERACY? | We will explore how parents' understanding of media differs from their children's engagement with technology within popular culture and techniques teachers may use in making their students savvy taste consumers rather than perceived "media junkies." Shelly Pasnik & Meghan McDermott, USA |
| Tuesday, May 16, 2000 -- 2:15 to 3:45 | |
| PRACTICAS DE LECTURA Y ESCRITURA EN EL CIBERESPACIO: UNA APROXIMACION AL DIALOGO ENTRE EDUCACION Y ECOLOGIA COGNOSCITIVA |
La presencia de la informática en la escuela implica nuevas formas de pensar los procesos pedagógicos, sobretodo porque la computadora constituyeuna tecnología intelectual que viene asociada a la existencia de un nuevo ambiente cognoscitivo y nuevas formas de relación, de comunicación y de producción de sentidos en el lenguaje y sobre el mundo. Andrea Ramal, Brazil |
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| MANIPULACION EN INFORMATIVOS TELEVISIVOS: RESPUESTAS DE FORMACION CIUDADANA EN ESPANA |
La television es el medio que mas posibilidades ofrece a la hora de manipular la informacion. La manipulacion es especialmente frecuente en elecciones. Fernando Tucho Fernadez, Spain |
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| FROM PRODUCTION TO ANALYSIS?: AN EVALUATION OF A MEDIA LITERACY CURRICULUM |
A media literacy curriculum must facilitate critical thinking about the discourses people adopt when they talk about television in order for children to manage the meanings they make from television & the way they incorporate these meanings into their lives. Amy Rudzinski, USA |
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| YOUTH, MEDIA & SOCIAL JUSTICE |
How the media may better address the need for youth to be informed as well as entertained about major issues of social justice & human rights in a multicultural world that requires understanding & building bridges between all the groups in their society. Charles Simmons, USA |
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| NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION ANALYSIS: SMOKING BEHAVIOUR IN FILM |
The media has served as a powerful means of promoting the sale of tobacco products finding them a useful dramatic device to advance plot, establish character & serve as a performance prop. Smoking became linked with sex, male & female bonding & coming of age. Art Silverblatt, USA |
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| INTEGRATED MEDIA MACHINE AS A TOOL FOR CULTURAL LEARNING |
A research project in which the meaning of new learning technologies are studied as an 'integrated media machine.' The term refers to the on-going machine-machine integration, the technological & cultural integration of humans and machines. Juha Suoranta & Mauri Yla-Kotola, Finland |
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| GETTING THEIR VOICES HEARD: ASIAN YOUTH & GLOBAL COMMUNICATION |
The presentation describes an attempt at helping a group of Indian youth develop a pro-active mindset towards communication. The presentation will be accompanied by samples of students' work, lesson plans & video documentation. Manisha Shelat, India |
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