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| American teen-agers are abandoning traditional news products in large numbers, or simply failing to engage with the news as they mature. In in the home and in classrooms, studnets are failing to receive the information they need tomake informed decisions as voters and citizens. Yet they are highly engaged with media in multiple forms.
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| | <h4>Find the home page for the 2006 media-literacy conference "Rebooting the News" at this [http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php?title=Reboot-home2 new location.]</h4> |
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| Over the last 18 months, some foundations and institutions have recognizing the significance of these changes on participatory democracy. They have launched new research or curriculum initiatives aimed at assessing or improving the situation.
| | <h2>To learning about the virtual gathering, "Rebooting the News" go to this . . . </h2> |
| | | <h1>[https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vSGSx-gLI1O5fd_WDPQMnUiJRjKxviP_riLlhdfFCd29BbzP_rQsFEHLsPIDB0CdRmI60VLOxryyfqz/pub Interim page.]</h1> |
| On Sept. Sept. 25-28, 2008, an journalists, researchers, educators, teachers, administrators and policy makers will convene in the crade of American democracy -- Philadelphia for "Rebooting the News: Setting an Agenda for American Civic Education." Their goal:
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| *Share knowledge about independent projects and research
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| *Review competing solution paradigms
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| *Assess the role of news and news organizations in solutions
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| *Consider the value of new national policy strategies
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| "Rebooting the News: Setting an Agenda for American Civic Education," is a critical examination the relationship among media, news and U.S. public education, the projects underway and a charting of the most promising directions. | |
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| Temple University's Media Education Laboratory will physically host this knowledge-sharing, review, assessment and solution planning in Center City facilities just blocks from Independence Hall. Over an afternoon, evening and two days, we'll use a combination of short presentations, round-table discussions and "open-space" breakout sessions organized by participants. We'll include lots of time for information networking and mini projects.
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| ==What we'll consider==
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| Some of the things we expect "Reboot the News" to consider:
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| ====Assessing the value of student-created media====
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| New media forms, such as YouTube, present significant evolving uncertainties about trust, sourcing and reliability which magnify the need to offer students skills to access, analyze, evaluate, and produce media. Ideas about adding new media to the classroom are widely available, but little research exists on how media are used, or about the pedagogical value of media works created by students with civic purpose.
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| ====Testing without civic component -- undermining frameworks?====
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| Many states have civics education requirements as part of the curriculum. They include valuable basic instruction on government such as the Constitution, the balance of powers, and how a bill becomes a law. Some state curriculum frameworks also encourage media-literacy education. However, is the growing reliance on "teach-to-the-test" -- where test questions don't cover civics or news literacy -- made such frameworks irrelevant?
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| ====Using news as a frame for core curriculum -- does it work?====
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| Often on an ad hoc basis, many of America's best teachers find ways to use current-event news materials in the classroom to illustrate curriculum points in history, social studies or literature. What work is underway to help them, and does this approach produce more engaged citizens?
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| ====Suggesting two underlying challenges====
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| With students engaged in online activities at unprecedented levels, their access to media is almost unlimited, and they have moved from primarily web searching to media creation sites such as YouTube and MySpace. To engage students in understanding current events it must be on this broad media playing field. Few classroom teachers have both the journalism skills and the media tools to help students become engaged in creating their own media.
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| This suggest there may be two underlying challenges:
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| *How to elevate in the minds of school boards and state curriculum framers the importance of media-literacy education as a core element of preparing teenagers to be informed, engaged citizens.
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| *In an environment of little-or-no financial resources, how to offer teachers the tools and training they need to be able to work with new-technology media resources alongside increasingly media-savvy (but not necessary news-savvy) students.
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| The Media Giraffe Project at UMass Amherst, in collaboration with the Action Coalition for Media Education and the New England chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, seeks to test the hypothesis that students can discover and engage with the news (and with civic society) through high-school curriculum blocks that invite them to create their own civic- and community-oriented media. “Reboot: Re-Connecting Americas Teens with the News” seeks as a mission to draw a new generation into active civic life by: (a) surveying the use of news in classrooms in a specific geographic region (New England); then (b) bringing together teachers and journalists in a collaborative program to design and implement curriculum blocks that change how our schools prepare teenagers for media use in a civil society. (c) Conduct a pilot curriculum project in schools in three demographically and geographically diverse districts.
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this page available at www.rebootingthenews.org
Find the home page for the 2006 media-literacy conference "Rebooting the News" at this new location.
To learning about the virtual gathering, "Rebooting the News" go to this . . .
