Educators are themselves citizens who express and share political views as part of their personal identity. They may care deeply about issues including climate change, immigration/migration, growing economic inequality, health and wellness, racism, sexism and other forms of discrimination, or other topics of concern. But in the classroom, some educators do not feel confident or comfortable exploring controversial issues with students, while others make clear their particular positions on political issues without necessarily reflecting on the inequality in power relationships that may silence their
students. The practice of critical media analysis and reflection help teachers navigate both the opportunities and the challenges of exploring contemporary controversies in the
classroom. Teachers benefit greatly from safe and structured opportunities to talk about the ethical and moral implications of their decisions to address or ignore controversial issues in the classroom.
Improving Reading Comprehension by Using Media Literacy Activities
By Renee Hobbs
Some literacy educators still hold to the idea that audiovisual media and digital technologies are the enemies of print culture, but a growing number of educators are exploring the synergistic relationship between different forms of reading that occur when the concept of text is expanded to include images, graphic design, multimodality, moving image media, and online content. At home, parents cultivate children's understanding of story structure by engaging in activities that involve children's re-telling of books, cartoons, games, and short films. They pause children's videos to ask questions, comment on action and predict what will happen next. Such practices cultivate viewing as a cognitively active process, a concept that was first articulated in the 1970s but continues to be more deeply appreciated with the rise of YouTube culture, where the distinction between authors and audiences is diminished. During the elementary grades, teachers use media literacy competencies when reading children's picturebooks, calling attention to when the words of a story and the image of the story conflict or deliver different messages. Active "reading" of picture books is a practice that foregrounds the meaning-making process and elevates reading comprehension beyond mere decoding. When educators reframe their work with youth as less about passing high-stakes tests and more about learning to navigate the multiple literacy contexts in which they live, learn, and work, students' motivation for reading increases. For this reason, literacy specialists are exploring links between disciplinary literacy, inquiry, and media literacy. Media literacy instructional practices honor students' popular culture and lived experience, and offer opportunities for students to bring their affect, emotion, imagination, and social interaction into reading practices that examine and challenge cultural conventions like materialism and consumerism that are reproduced in media culture on a daily basis.
Best Practices in Digital Learning, Anytime & Real TimeRenee Hobbs
How can digital learning be implemented in ways that deepen engagement and accelerate learning? The coronavirus crisis has created an opportunity to deepen digital literacy and learning competencies for teachers and students alike. In this session, we'll model and reflect upon three best practices of digital learning that go far beyond the Zoom or Google Classroom. Learn more about how trust and respect develop in online communities and discover the power of create-to-learn pedagogies that deepen engagement and accelerate learning. Learn strategies that help you to incorporate "anytime" and "real time" learning for students, teachers, and staff. Even when the coronavirus crisis is over, the best practices of digital learning are relevant to what happens in the classroom as we cultivate habits of mind that advance lifelong learning.
Literacy is changing and academic leaders and librarians are changing too. Learn about three practices which transform digital literacy and learning. Keynote for the California State Library Association Leadership Day, February 6, 2020.
Educators are themselves citizens who express and share political views as part of their personal identity. They may care deeply about issues including climate change, immigration/migration, growing economic inequality, health and wellness, racism, sexism and other forms of discrimination, or other topics of concern. But in the classroom, some educators do not feel confident or comfortable exploring controversial issues with students, while others make clear their particular positions on political issues without necessarily reflecting on the inequality in power relationships that may silence their
students. The practice of critical media analysis and reflection help teachers navigate both the opportunities and the challenges of exploring contemporary controversies in the
classroom. Teachers benefit greatly from safe and structured opportunities to talk about the ethical and moral implications of their decisions to address or ignore controversial issues in the classroom.
Improving Reading Comprehension by Using Media Literacy Activities
By Renee Hobbs
Some literacy educators still hold to the idea that audiovisual media and digital technologies are the enemies of print culture, but a growing number of educators are exploring the synergistic relationship between different forms of reading that occur when the concept of text is expanded to include images, graphic design, multimodality, moving image media, and online content. At home, parents cultivate children's understanding of story structure by engaging in activities that involve children's re-telling of books, cartoons, games, and short films. They pause children's videos to ask questions, comment on action and predict what will happen next. Such practices cultivate viewing as a cognitively active process, a concept that was first articulated in the 1970s but continues to be more deeply appreciated with the rise of YouTube culture, where the distinction between authors and audiences is diminished. During the elementary grades, teachers use media literacy competencies when reading children's picturebooks, calling attention to when the words of a story and the image of the story conflict or deliver different messages. Active "reading" of picture books is a practice that foregrounds the meaning-making process and elevates reading comprehension beyond mere decoding. When educators reframe their work with youth as less about passing high-stakes tests and more about learning to navigate the multiple literacy contexts in which they live, learn, and work, students' motivation for reading increases. For this reason, literacy specialists are exploring links between disciplinary literacy, inquiry, and media literacy. Media literacy instructional practices honor students' popular culture and lived experience, and offer opportunities for students to bring their affect, emotion, imagination, and social interaction into reading practices that examine and challenge cultural conventions like materialism and consumerism that are reproduced in media culture on a daily basis.
Best Practices in Digital Learning, Anytime & Real TimeRenee Hobbs
How can digital learning be implemented in ways that deepen engagement and accelerate learning? The coronavirus crisis has created an opportunity to deepen digital literacy and learning competencies for teachers and students alike. In this session, we'll model and reflect upon three best practices of digital learning that go far beyond the Zoom or Google Classroom. Learn more about how trust and respect develop in online communities and discover the power of create-to-learn pedagogies that deepen engagement and accelerate learning. Learn strategies that help you to incorporate "anytime" and "real time" learning for students, teachers, and staff. Even when the coronavirus crisis is over, the best practices of digital learning are relevant to what happens in the classroom as we cultivate habits of mind that advance lifelong learning.
Literacy is changing and academic leaders and librarians are changing too. Learn about three practices which transform digital literacy and learning. Keynote for the California State Library Association Leadership Day, February 6, 2020.
Council of Europe Digital Citizenship Days, November 3, 2020Renee Hobbs
Renee Hobbs explains why the coronavirus crisis created an opportunity for teacher empowerment, as they discovered the importance of feeling safe online, empathic listening, guided and open inquiry, and enhanced care and responsibility towards others. Learn more: www.mediaeducationlab.com
Renee Hobbs explores the evolution of media literacy education and examines changes in how the media industry has shifted its focus in teaching about media.
Create to Learn: Advancing Collaboration and CreativityRenee Hobbs
Academic librarians, technologists, and higher education faculty have been actively experimenting with new forms of digital learning during the global pandemic. In the process, they have discovered some valuable strategies and practices that will continue to fuel innovation in teaching, learning, and scholarship for years to come. In this session, we’ll discuss why it’s more important than ever before to have complicated conversations about all the literacies - information, media, news, digital, critical, and those that are yet to be named. How do these competencies get integrated into all programs and courses across the liberal arts and sciences? In this session, we’ll take time to experiment, working in small groups, using create-to-learn pedagogies that can provoke intellectual curiosity by combining play and learning. Then, we’ll reflect on how creative collaboration can offer a liberating way to open up spaces of possibility and adaptation for the stakeholders in our own institutions and communities.
Renee Hobbs is an expert in digital and media literacy education and she is the author of Mind Over Media: Propaganda Education for a Digital Age, which was awarded the 2021 PROSE Award for Excellence in Social Sciences from the Association of American Publishers. As professor of communication studies and director of the Media Education Lab, she co-directs the Graduate Certificate in Digital Literacy at the University of Rhode Island. She has published 12 books and over 150 scholarly and professional articles and developed multimedia learning resources for elementary, secondary and college teachers.
The State of Digital & Media Literacy Education 2019Renee Hobbs
Hobbs gives a brief overview of digital and media literacy for the Media Literacy in Early Childhood Alliance National Leadership Forum, January 15, 2019.
Propaganda vs. Democracy in a Digital AgeRenee Hobbs
Renee Hobbs shows how digital learning that addresses the needs of educators can have transformative impact in addressing the needs of learners growing up in a world full of propaganda and disinformation.
Using Digital Media for Inquiry-Based Instruction Renee Hobbs
Renee Hobbs offers a workshop to educators at the the Near East South Asia Council of Overseas Schools (NESA) Winter Training Institute in Muscat, Oman
Media Education in the Era of Algorithmic Personalization: Facing Polarizati...Renee Hobbs
Keynote address at the INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE AND TRAINNING
ON DIGITAL AND MEDIA EDUCATION
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
Cluj-Napoca, Romania, October 25-28, 2023
Growing Up WIRED!
What Our Students Learn About Each Other from the Media
Mary Pat Gallagher and Marteana Davidson
It is estimated that today's teenagers (13-18) engage in nine hours of entertainment media per day and that tweens (8-12) engage in six hours. Today’s students are spending as much time learning from their media experiences as they do in their classrooms. What do our students learn about "each other" while playing video games, browsing the web, and engaged in social media?
Join media literacy educators Mary Pat Gallagher and Marteana Davidson in this media literacy workshop that sheds light on how media messages educate our students about each other.
Council of Europe Digital Citizenship Days, November 3, 2020Renee Hobbs
Renee Hobbs explains why the coronavirus crisis created an opportunity for teacher empowerment, as they discovered the importance of feeling safe online, empathic listening, guided and open inquiry, and enhanced care and responsibility towards others. Learn more: www.mediaeducationlab.com
Renee Hobbs explores the evolution of media literacy education and examines changes in how the media industry has shifted its focus in teaching about media.
Create to Learn: Advancing Collaboration and CreativityRenee Hobbs
Academic librarians, technologists, and higher education faculty have been actively experimenting with new forms of digital learning during the global pandemic. In the process, they have discovered some valuable strategies and practices that will continue to fuel innovation in teaching, learning, and scholarship for years to come. In this session, we’ll discuss why it’s more important than ever before to have complicated conversations about all the literacies - information, media, news, digital, critical, and those that are yet to be named. How do these competencies get integrated into all programs and courses across the liberal arts and sciences? In this session, we’ll take time to experiment, working in small groups, using create-to-learn pedagogies that can provoke intellectual curiosity by combining play and learning. Then, we’ll reflect on how creative collaboration can offer a liberating way to open up spaces of possibility and adaptation for the stakeholders in our own institutions and communities.
Renee Hobbs is an expert in digital and media literacy education and she is the author of Mind Over Media: Propaganda Education for a Digital Age, which was awarded the 2021 PROSE Award for Excellence in Social Sciences from the Association of American Publishers. As professor of communication studies and director of the Media Education Lab, she co-directs the Graduate Certificate in Digital Literacy at the University of Rhode Island. She has published 12 books and over 150 scholarly and professional articles and developed multimedia learning resources for elementary, secondary and college teachers.
The State of Digital & Media Literacy Education 2019Renee Hobbs
Hobbs gives a brief overview of digital and media literacy for the Media Literacy in Early Childhood Alliance National Leadership Forum, January 15, 2019.
Propaganda vs. Democracy in a Digital AgeRenee Hobbs
Renee Hobbs shows how digital learning that addresses the needs of educators can have transformative impact in addressing the needs of learners growing up in a world full of propaganda and disinformation.
Using Digital Media for Inquiry-Based Instruction Renee Hobbs
Renee Hobbs offers a workshop to educators at the the Near East South Asia Council of Overseas Schools (NESA) Winter Training Institute in Muscat, Oman
Media Education in the Era of Algorithmic Personalization: Facing Polarizati...Renee Hobbs
Keynote address at the INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE AND TRAINNING
ON DIGITAL AND MEDIA EDUCATION
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
Cluj-Napoca, Romania, October 25-28, 2023
Growing Up WIRED!
What Our Students Learn About Each Other from the Media
Mary Pat Gallagher and Marteana Davidson
It is estimated that today's teenagers (13-18) engage in nine hours of entertainment media per day and that tweens (8-12) engage in six hours. Today’s students are spending as much time learning from their media experiences as they do in their classrooms. What do our students learn about "each other" while playing video games, browsing the web, and engaged in social media?
Join media literacy educators Mary Pat Gallagher and Marteana Davidson in this media literacy workshop that sheds light on how media messages educate our students about each other.
Using Digital Media for Inquiry, Part IIRenee Hobbs
Renee Hobbs offers a workshop to educators at the the Near East South Asia Council of Overseas Schools (NESA) Winter Training Institute in Muscat, Oman
From Audiences to Authors: Children and Young People as Content Creators and...Renee Hobbs
Professor Renee Hobbs makes the inaugural lecture for the ICMC 2015 conference "Digital Future: Content, Community and Communication" in Ahmenabad, India.
The Competing Narratives of Digital & Media LiteracyRenee Hobbs
Renee Hobbs explores the history of media literacy in an address to the Media Ecology Association upon receiving the Neil Postman Lifetime Achievement Award for Public Intellectual Activity.
Create to Learn: Digital Literacy in Higher EducationRenee Hobbs
Renee Hobbs gives the keynote address at Explore, Create, Connect: The Inaugural Digital Literacy Symposium at the University Libraries of Virginia Tech
In a media dominated world characterized by ubiquitous communication and entertainment technology, consumers are literally being consumed by what they see daily. The following is a story outlining the affordances & constraints of being a part of this world.
Mind Over Media: Presentation at Hosei University JapanRenee Hobbs
Professor Renee Hobbs reviews research on media literacy and talks about analyzing contemporary propaganda as a means to promote intellectual curiosity and intercultural understanding
Professor Renee Hobbs explores how disparities in access to information contribute to misunderstandings and explains how analyzing media helps make our interpretation processes transparent. She shows how creating media helps people share in the social power of representing ideas and identity and notes that such competencies are essential for advancing the social responsibilities of media consumers and creators.
Webinar digitale geletterdheid, de lerarenopleiding en de leraar van de toekomstRenee Hobbs
Digitale geletterdheid in het curriculum: Hoe digitaal geletterd moet de #leraar van de toekomst zijn? En wat vraagt dat van de #lerarenopleidingen? In dit #webinar gaat hoogleraar communicatiewetenschappen @reneehobbs hierop in. Bent u erbij? https://lnkd.in/dANk6Cy
Workshop: Media Literacy Instructional Practices for Every TeacherRenee Hobbs
How can media literacy education help address important community needs? Review 16 media literacy instructional practices that are foundational to students in primary and secondary education and learn about research on the specific characteristics of quality MIL education. Then work in a small group under deadline pressure to plan how you could implement one or more instructional practices to address a timely and relevant community issue, using a creative design process to imagine educational futures.
Media Literacy, Artificial Intelligence and American ValuesRenee Hobbs
Delivered at the Holland Symposium at Angelo State University, February 15, 2024.
Digital tools are used to create a tsunami of entertainment, information, and persuasion that floods into our daily lives because media messages influence knowledge, attitudes, beliefs and behaviors. Some people are overwhelmed and others are exhilarated by the rise of generative AI, which is quickly becoming normative for both creators and consumers alike. At the same time, mistrust and distrust are rising because it’s so easy to use digital media tools to activate strong emotions, simplify information, and attack opponents. Thanks to algorithmic personalization, new forms of propaganda are being created and shared on social media. Tailored to our deepest hopes, fears, and dreams, these messages can, at times, seem irresistible.
But the practice of media literacy education offers a humanistic response to the changing nature of knowledge caused by the rise of big data and its reshaping of the arts, business, the sciences, education, and the humanities. Learn how educators can help learners to ask critical questions that enable people to recognize the subtle forms of manipulation embedded in all forms of symbolic expression. Gain an understanding of the business models and technological affordances of AI, machine learning, and big data in order to distinguish between harmful and beneficial AI tools, texts, and technologies. Learn why creative and critical thinking, when it is combined with intellectual humility and empathy, help people develop the identity of a lifelong learner. When media literacy is embedded in education at all levels, people can find common ground, restore trust, and deepen respect for the shared human values of care and compassion.
BIOGRAPHY
Renee Hobbs is one of the world’s leading experts on media literacy education. She is Founder of the Media Education Lab, a global online community. Hobbs’s book, Mind Over Media: Propaganda Education for a Digital Age won the 2021 Prose Award for Excellence in Social Sciences from the American Association of Publishers. She began her career by offering the first teacher education program in media literacy education at Harvard Graduate School of Education. She has since inspired a generation of students, teachers, and citizens on four continents who have helped develop a global media literacy movement. As a full professor at the University of Rhode Island, Hobbs has published 12 books and more than 200 scholarly and professional articles. Her engaging talks clearly demonstrate how media literacy can be implemented in home, school, workplace, and community settings. Audiences enjoy Hobbs’ passion and energy and the skillful way she engages people from all walks of life in ways that activate critical thinking about contemporary popular culture and media messages, especially the new types of persuasive genres on social media that may escape people’s scrutiny.
Media Literacy Education in a Global SocietyRenee Hobbs
What We’re Learning and What We Still Need to Know
By Renee Hobbs
Media literacy education has greatly increased in visibility as increasing political polarization continues to threaten democratic societies. Around the world, tech companies invest in media literacy education, hoping that it will stave off regulation of their digital platforms. Journalists and politicians hope media literacy education will increase the public’s appetite for quality journalism to improve civic education. Parents expect that media literacy will help protect their children against the harms and risks of growing up with social media. And educators at all levels are beginning to recognize that the 4 C’s of media literacy (critical thinking, creativity, collaboration, and communication skills) are increasingly central to an emerging conceptualization of a “new liberal arts” education. Which of these themes and areas of emphasis are privileged as media literacy education is implemented around the world? What are the most urgent needs still to be addressed? How can the many stakeholders for media literacy better coordinate their efforts to accelerate implementation?
Learn more: www.mediaeducationlab.com
Is Ripping for Fair Use Still Important? Considering DMCA 1201 in 2020 and B...Renee Hobbs
Is Ripping for Fair Use Still Important? Considering DMCA 1201 in 2020 and Beyond
Is Ripping for Fair Use Still Important? Considering DMCA 1201 in 2020 and Beyond
Presented by Renee Hobbs
Media literacy educators rely on the ability to access movies and popular culture and use them for learning purposes. As “create to learn” pedagogies become increasingly common, students, educators and library patrons continue to rely on ripped excerpts from DVDs. After all, ripped clips of movie DVDs can be educationally useful in presentations as well as in composing remix media production projects. Thanks to the DMCA 1201 exemption, ripping DVDs is legal for educational and creative purposes. But with the rise of streaming media and screencasting, is the process of “ripping” DVDs still as relevant and important as it was in 2006? In this discussion, we’ll consider the future of DMCA 1201, the law that impacts educators, learners, creative people, and librarians. Using an open discussion, we’ll consider the question: Given the rise of streaming video and screencasting and the decline of DVD players in schools, is it worth the effort to preserve the exemption? Why or why not?
Tuesday, November 3, 2020, 2pm-3pm ET
Teaching the Election: Focus on Propaganda Renee Hobbs
Renee Hobbs offers a keynote address to the Teaching the Election Conference at the University of Wisconsin, Madison on September 26, 2020. Learn more: https://mediaeducationlab.com/teaching-about-2020-elections-virtual-conference
Adult Learners as Media Makers: Create-to-Learn Pedagogies in Online LearningRenee Hobbs
Profesor Hobbs describes her approach to supporting adult learners as they become digital authors as a result of participating in the Graduate Certificate in Digital Literacy, University of Rhode Island.
How do librarians support patrons who may have experienced online harassment or defamation?
How do librarians support patrons who seek to legally “rip” media clips for fair use purposes?
How do librarians participate in the 2021 DMCA exemption process on behalf of the needs of patrons, educators and students?
At this week's session, we us discussion to practice the reasoning process that is needed to make a fair use determination. We are joined by Carla Myers of Miami University Ohio helps us learn more about this important statement from academic librarians on why copyright and fair use need to be extended beyond the usual parameters as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.
If ye extended beyond the usual parameters as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.
Executive Directors Chat Leveraging AI for Diversity, Equity, and InclusionTechSoup
Let’s explore the intersection of technology and equity in the final session of our DEI series. Discover how AI tools, like ChatGPT, can be used to support and enhance your nonprofit's DEI initiatives. Participants will gain insights into practical AI applications and get tips for leveraging technology to advance their DEI goals.
Introduction to AI for Nonprofits with Tapp NetworkTechSoup
Dive into the world of AI! Experts Jon Hill and Tareq Monaur will guide you through AI's role in enhancing nonprofit websites and basic marketing strategies, making it easy to understand and apply.
Francesca Gottschalk - How can education support child empowerment.pptxEduSkills OECD
Francesca Gottschalk from the OECD’s Centre for Educational Research and Innovation presents at the Ask an Expert Webinar: How can education support child empowerment?
This slide is special for master students (MIBS & MIFB) in UUM. Also useful for readers who are interested in the topic of contemporary Islamic banking.
Exploiting Artificial Intelligence for Empowering Researchers and Faculty, In...Dr. Vinod Kumar Kanvaria
Exploiting Artificial Intelligence for Empowering Researchers and Faculty,
International FDP on Fundamentals of Research in Social Sciences
at Integral University, Lucknow, 06.06.2024
By Dr. Vinod Kumar Kanvaria
Create to Learn: How Digital Media Inquiry Advances Intellectual Curiosity
1. Create to Learn
How Digital Media Inquiry
Advances Intellectual
Curiosity
Renee Hobbs
University of Rhode Island
Media Education Lab
Twitter: @reneehobbs
October 28, 2019
University of Arkansas
Fall Public Lecture
Series
11. PEER-TO-PEER FILE SHARING
Preview
When people create media, they demonstrate
literacy & learning competencies in a
naturalistic way
The rise of algorithmic propaganda requires new
knowledge, skills and habits of mind to cope
with the complex digital environment of today
Analyzing and creating media activates
intellectual curiosity & cultivates a spirit of
lifelong learning essential for participation in a
democratic society
15. Project Information Literacy
Students actively try to reduce the number of
choices they have to make in order to get
their assignments done.
The Citation Project
First-year college students who use sources
in their writing rarely write about them with
much understanding.
They don’t summarize sources, they harvest
quotes. Nearly half the time, the quotes they
use are from the first page of the source.
We
16. CUT-AND-PASTE CULTURE
At least 15% of college students
use term paper mills
SOURCE: Newton, P. (2018). How common is contract cheating in higher education? A systematic review. Frontiers in
Education. https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2018.00067
33. A majority of students ages 14 - 23 prefer learning from
YouTube videos over other activities including in-person
group activities, learning apps, games, or reading from
printed books.
SOURCE: Pearson (2018). Beyond millennials: The next generation of learners. Global Research &
Insights and Harris Polling.
34. Why do many young people
prefer to learn from
YouTube videos?
What are some benefits,
risks and consequences of
this?
Turn & Talk
4
44. “The art of posing a
question must be held of
higher value than
solving it.”
- Georg Cantor, creator of Set Theory
(1867)
45. Question: Why do the shoes I was looking at
on Zappos follow me from one website to
another?
Question: Why do some FB friends
never show up on my News Feed?
Question: Why go Google search results seem
so different when I use my Grandma’s
computer?
46. Assignment: Generate a meaningful
question. Gather information from 3 or
more different types of sources as you
answer your question.
Aim to develop an informed position
on the topic.
Then create a short video to share
what you learned with a public
audience.
Search, Research
and Create Media
47. Coiro, J., Castek, J., & Quinn, D. (2016). Personal inquiry and online research: Connecting learners in ways that
matter. The Reading Teacher, 69(5), 483-492.
48. Why did the
National Rifle
Association
buy Facebook ads
warning people about
fake news?
49.
50.
51. What are the Implications of Participating in Highly
Personalized Media Worlds?
69. PEER-TO-PEER FILE SHARING
Review
When people create media, they demonstrate
literacy & learning competencies in a
naturalistic way
The rise of algorithmic propaganda requires new
knowledge, skills and habits of mind to cope
with the complex digital environment of today
Analyzing and creating media activates
intellectual curiosity & cultivates a spirit of
lifelong learning essential for participation in a
democratic society
70. Analyzing Global Propaganda
to Increase Cultural Understanding
SOURCE: Hobbs, R., Seyferth-Zapf, C. & Grafe, S. (2018). Using virtual exchange to advance media literacy
competencies through analysis of contemporary propaganda, Journal of Media Literacy Education 10(2), 152 – 168.
71.
72. Asking critical questions
about what you watch, see & read
builds a deeper appreciation of the
social responsibilities of digital authorship
73. Renee Hobbs
Director, Media Education Lab
Co-Director, Graduate Certificate Program in Digital Literacy
Harrington School of Communication & Media
University of Rhode Island
Email: hobbs@uri.edu
Twitter: @reneehobbs
LEARN MORE
Web: www.mediaeducationlab.com