Slideset fro

1. Digital Media, Digital
Literacy and Youth
“Educators must become conscious individuals who live part
of their dreams within their educational space”

2. My educational space(s)
• For over a decade I have worked
with youth and digital media.
• Recently that work has expanded to
include the use of digital media in
cross cultural contexts.
• I am most interested in the power of
digital media to articulate and shape
the world.

3. Gen M | Gen Z | Digital Natives
• Use technology
• 94% cell phone
• 23% smartphone
• 70% laptop
• 69% iPod or mp3 player
• 23% tablet
• 93% use the internet
• 80% use social networking
• 48% buy things online
• 21% remix
• 14% blog
• 8% visit virtual worlds

4. New skills for learning
• Evolving 21st century literacies
• Digital
• Cross cultural
• Collaborative
• Peer discovery, production
• Social

5. New ways of learning

6. Digital literacy

7. Range of digital engagement

8. Moving beyond lolcats

9. Youth Powered Video
Curriculum
• Standards based curriculum
• Lesson plans
• Handouts
• Rubrics
• Sample chapter download available
• Cost
Image from Educational Video Center http://www.evc.org/

10. Media in Action Curriculum
• Downloadable curriculum
• Explores issues of power, messaging
• Decidedly not “neutral”
• From the Global Action Project
Image from Global Action Project http://global-action.org/

11. 4-H
• Storytelling/Documentary
• Message/program specific
• High level of access to tools
and technologies

12. Nicaragua
• Technology as novelty
• Self expression
• Low level of access to tools and
technologies

13. Digital as bridge
• Digital technologies can mediate and bridge
relationships across cultures.
• But….

14. Connecting to the world
Bringing it all back home?

15. References/Resources
• Berkman Center Youth and Media Project
• http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/youthandmediaalpha/
• Global Action Project | Media in Action Curriculum
• http://curriculum.global-action.org/
• Educational Video Center | Youth Powered Video Curriculum
• http://www.evc.org/store/books-curricula/youth-powered-video
• Digital and Media Literacy: A Plan of Action
• http://www.knightcomm.org/digital-and-media-literacy-a-plan-
of-action/
• Pew Internet and American Life Project
• http://pewinternet.org/
• Hackasarus
• http://hackasaurus.org/en-US/

16. A couple books
• Designing Digital Experiences for Positive Youth Development:
From Playpen to Playground – Marina Umaschi Bers
• http://amzn.to/HEnoGG
• Digital and Media Literacy: Connecting Culture and Classroom
– Renee Hobbs
• http://amzn.to/Hf2qll
• Teaching Youth Media | A Critical Guide to Literacy, Video
Production & Social Change - Steven Goodman
• http://bit.ly/HaF0Ax
• Literacy in a Digital World: Teaching and Learning in the Age of
Information – Kathleen Tyner
• http://amzn.to/HO4W1P