The document discusses how the COVID-19 pandemic created opportunities to advance digital media literacy in schools. It describes a program that provided daily online sessions for teachers over 5 months. The program helped teachers build skills in areas like developing trust online, promoting productive dialogue, modeling media literacy practices, and feeling interconnected while caring for one another. An evaluation found teachers were more likely to adopt strategies modeled in the program and students experienced benefits like improved online skills and well-being.
Crisis Creates Opportunity: How the Covid Pandemic Advanced Digital Media Literacy in Schools
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Crisis Creates Opportunity:
How the Covid Pandemic
Advanced Digital Media Literacy in Schools
Renee Hobbs
University of Rhode Island
Email: hobbs@uri.edu
Twitter: @reneehobbs
Web: www.mediaeducationlab.com
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Digital
and
Media Literacy
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Explore how life,
work and citizenship
have been impacted
by digital media and
culture & learn how
to critically analyze
and create media in
a variety of forms
1 in 3 college students have had
some exposure to media literacy in
elementary or secondary grades
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We Support Our Learning Community
60
daily
online
sessions
5
months
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Crisis Creates Opportunity
How We Helped Teachers to Advance
Digital Media Literacy for Online Learning
Feeling Safe
Empathic Listening
Guided & Open Inquiry
Care & Responsibility Towards Others
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STAGE 1. Talk about Feelings and Share Experiences
We learn how to develop trust and respect in an online setting as a way to “own” the reality of the
COVID-19 experience
Reducing anxiety about
self-representation
online
Sharing feelings and
feeling trusted
Feeling Safe
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STAGE 2: Develop Shared Social Norms of Group Communication
We learn how to promote productive dialogue online, where every participant makes a
contribution and feels a sense of responsibility to the group
Developing
productive
social norms for
dialogue
and discussion
Empathic Listening
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STAGE 3: Model and Share Media Literacy Instructional Practices
We demonstrate and practice learning activities and share resources that advance media literacy
competencies in an online context
Guided & Open Inquiry
24. Adapting Media Literacy Instructional Practices to the Online Classroom
Building
Critical Reading Skills
through Discussion
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STAGE 4: Become a Community
We care for each other and feel a sense of interconnectedness and we take action to support one another
Collaborative online
media production
• podcast
• video
• parody song
• website
• curriculum resources
Care & Responsibility Towards Others
29. Impact of Virtually Viral Hangouts
Impact on Behavior
48% used small group breakouts with their own students
68% used emotional check-ins with their own students
46% used a media literacy pedagogical strategy modelled
in the program
Compared to a Control Group
Increased confidence in online self-expression
Increased familiarity with digital tools
Improved emotional coping & life satisfaction
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Crisis Creates Opportunity
How We Helped Teachers to Advance
Digital Media Literacy for Online Learning
Feeling Safe
Empathic Listening
Guided & Open Inquiry
Care & Responsibility Towards Others
33. Renee Hobbs
Professor of Communication Studies
Director, Media Education Lab
Harrington School of Communication & Media
University of Rhode Island USA
Email: hobbs@uri.edu
Twitter: @reneehobbs
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