Renee Hobbs gave a presentation on digital authorship and media literacy. She discussed how librarians can support students' creative media production skills and critical analysis abilities. Hobbs covered different digital authorship tools and explained key concepts around copyright and fair use. She emphasized how digital authorship can empower learners and promote skills like creativity, collaboration, and civic participation.
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
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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
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.
When Literacy Goes Digital: Meeting the Needs of All Learners with Digital an...Renee Hobbs
Renee Hobbs address the Baylor University commnunity as part of the Baylor University School of Education Distinguised Lecture Series. October 18, 2012.
Authorship and Media Making as LearningRenee Hobbs
Renee Hobbs explores how creative composition supports the learning process. Digital and media literacy provides an opportunity to better understand the complex interaction between the classroom and the culture. Sensitivity to diverse teacher motivations may improve the quality of collaboration that enables robust and innovative learning with media & technology.
Teens and Libraries: A Media Literacy PerspectiveRenee Hobbs
Renee Hobbs invites teen librarians to reflect on how their attitudes about print, visual, sound and digital media shape their work. She reviews the developmental characteristics of adolescents that most affect teen media use behaviors. She considers the pros and cons of empowerment and protection in helping teens thrive in a media-saturated society.
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.
Renee Hobbs tells teacher-librarians in Rhode Island about her work in a Philadelphia elementary school, demonstrating how media analysis and production activities support the acquisition of digital and media literacy competencies among the youngest learners.
Transforming Education through Digital and Media LiteracyRenee Hobbs
Renee Hobbs explains how new stakeholders are enabling literacy educators to create initiatives that remix the fields of education, communication and media studies.
Professor Renee Hobbs argues that digital literacy is an expanded conceptualization of literacy that requires technical, cognitive, social, emotional and civic competencies. Educators and students become co-learners since creating media involves a balance between creative freedom and creative control. Digital authorship is a process that involves choice, courage, risk-taking and vulnerability. Digital literacy activates intellectual curiosity and helps support the habit of learning for a lifetime
Deepening the Practice of Digital Literacy Renee Hobbs
A Core Conversation with Renee Hobbs at SXSWEdu Austin, Texas, March 10, 2015. Hobbs demonstrates an approach to staff development that enables people to develop a shared vision for digital literacy that is respectful of the many-faceted nature of the concept.
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
Powerful Voices for Kids at IRA Conference in San Antonio Brings Media Litera...Renee Hobbs
Join the Powerful Voices for Kids community and bring digital and media literacy to your elementary learners. Renee Hobbs and David Cooper Moore authored the new book, Discovering Media Literacy: Digital Media and Popular Culture in Elementary School (Corwin/Sage, 2013). Learn more at: www.powerfulvoicesforkids.com
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.
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.
When Literacy Goes Digital: Meeting the Needs of All Learners with Digital an...Renee Hobbs
Renee Hobbs address the Baylor University commnunity as part of the Baylor University School of Education Distinguised Lecture Series. October 18, 2012.
Authorship and Media Making as LearningRenee Hobbs
Renee Hobbs explores how creative composition supports the learning process. Digital and media literacy provides an opportunity to better understand the complex interaction between the classroom and the culture. Sensitivity to diverse teacher motivations may improve the quality of collaboration that enables robust and innovative learning with media & technology.
Teens and Libraries: A Media Literacy PerspectiveRenee Hobbs
Renee Hobbs invites teen librarians to reflect on how their attitudes about print, visual, sound and digital media shape their work. She reviews the developmental characteristics of adolescents that most affect teen media use behaviors. She considers the pros and cons of empowerment and protection in helping teens thrive in a media-saturated society.
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.
Renee Hobbs tells teacher-librarians in Rhode Island about her work in a Philadelphia elementary school, demonstrating how media analysis and production activities support the acquisition of digital and media literacy competencies among the youngest learners.
Transforming Education through Digital and Media LiteracyRenee Hobbs
Renee Hobbs explains how new stakeholders are enabling literacy educators to create initiatives that remix the fields of education, communication and media studies.
Professor Renee Hobbs argues that digital literacy is an expanded conceptualization of literacy that requires technical, cognitive, social, emotional and civic competencies. Educators and students become co-learners since creating media involves a balance between creative freedom and creative control. Digital authorship is a process that involves choice, courage, risk-taking and vulnerability. Digital literacy activates intellectual curiosity and helps support the habit of learning for a lifetime
Deepening the Practice of Digital Literacy Renee Hobbs
A Core Conversation with Renee Hobbs at SXSWEdu Austin, Texas, March 10, 2015. Hobbs demonstrates an approach to staff development that enables people to develop a shared vision for digital literacy that is respectful of the many-faceted nature of the concept.
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
Powerful Voices for Kids at IRA Conference in San Antonio Brings Media Litera...Renee Hobbs
Join the Powerful Voices for Kids community and bring digital and media literacy to your elementary learners. Renee Hobbs and David Cooper Moore authored the new book, Discovering Media Literacy: Digital Media and Popular Culture in Elementary School (Corwin/Sage, 2013). Learn more at: www.powerfulvoicesforkids.com
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.
Renee Hobbs presented the keynote address for the Classroom Technology Celebration, New Hampshire Department of Education, Meredith, New Hampshire, May 29, 2008.
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
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.
Yes! You Can Use Copyrighted Material for Digital LiteracyRenee Hobbs
In this session, Renee Hobbs, Sandy Hayes and Kristin Hokanson explore the importance of copyright and fair use for digital literacy. Participants gain knowledge about U.S. copyright law as it relates to the most common instructional practices in digital literacy and appreciate the concept of transformative use. They gain confidence in making a fair use determination and learn how to integrate fair use reasoning into student media production activities. Finally, participants increase their ability to advocate for the fair use of copyrighted materials in digital literacy
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
Social Media in the ABM (MLA) Sector: opportunities and challengesMia
Lecture on social media and museums, libraries and archives given to the The Norwegian Archive, Library and Museum Authority (ABM-utvikling) in Oslo, December 2009.
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 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
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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
A Strategic Approach: GenAI in EducationPeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
Operation “Blue Star” is the only event in the history of Independent India where the state went into war with its own people. Even after about 40 years it is not clear if it was culmination of states anger over people of the region, a political game of power or start of dictatorial chapter in the democratic setup.
The people of Punjab felt alienated from main stream due to denial of their just demands during a long democratic struggle since independence. As it happen all over the word, it led to militant struggle with great loss of lives of military, police and civilian personnel. Killing of Indira Gandhi and massacre of innocent Sikhs in Delhi and other India cities was also associated with this movement.
How to Make a Field invisible in Odoo 17Celine George
It is possible to hide or invisible some fields in odoo. Commonly using “invisible” attribute in the field definition to invisible the fields. This slide will show how to make a field invisible in odoo 17.
2024.06.01 Introducing a competency framework for languag learning materials ...Sandy Millin
http://sandymillin.wordpress.com/iateflwebinar2024
Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
The French Revolution, which began in 1789, was a period of radical social and political upheaval in France. It marked the decline of absolute monarchies, the rise of secular and democratic republics, and the eventual rise of Napoleon Bonaparte. This revolutionary period is crucial in understanding the transition from feudalism to modernity in Europe.
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Model Attribute Check Company Auto PropertyCeline George
In Odoo, the multi-company feature allows you to manage multiple companies within a single Odoo database instance. Each company can have its own configurations while still sharing common resources such as products, customers, and suppliers.
Instructions for Submissions thorugh G- Classroom.pptxJheel Barad
This presentation provides a briefing on how to upload submissions and documents in Google Classroom. It was prepared as part of an orientation for new Sainik School in-service teacher trainees. As a training officer, my goal is to ensure that you are comfortable and proficient with this essential tool for managing assignments and fostering student engagement.
Unit 8 - Information and Communication Technology (Paper I).pdfThiyagu K
This slides describes the basic concepts of ICT, basics of Email, Emerging Technology and Digital Initiatives in Education. This presentations aligns with the UGC Paper I syllabus.
June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...Levi Shapiro
Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
• The Committee on Ways and Means has been investigating several universities since November 15, 2023, when the Committee held a hearing entitled From Ivory Towers to Dark Corners: Investigating the Nexus Between Antisemitism, Tax-Exempt Universities, and Terror Financing. The Committee followed the hearing with letters to those institutions on January 10, 202
1. Digital Authorship
and Media Literacy
Renee Hobbs
University of Rhode Island
Media Education Lab
Twitter: @reneehobbs
Framingham Public Schools
January 19, 2021
@reneehobbs
2. Welcome to Today’s Program!
8 AM Introduction
9 AM The Library Screen Scene
10 AM Copyright & Fair Use for
the Youngest Learners
12. 8 AM Librarians as Digital Authors
What happens when librarians experience for themselves the
power of digital authorship? Review and discuss how unleashing
your own creativity opens up new ways for you to support your
learning community.
20. ____ I use my cell phone to search for information
____ I maintain a diary or journal to express my feelings & experiences
____ I select & share images, music or other media content nearly every day
____ I do creative writing - poetry, fiction or short stories
____ I have interviewed a person to gather information
____ I have given a speech using PPT slides that I created
____ I have performed spoken word poetry or storytelling presentation
____ I have performed in a play or helped behind the scenes in a dramatic
production
____ I have live streamed video for people on the Internet to watch
YOUR IDENTITY AS A DIGITAL AUTHOR
21. ____ I have performed in a music video, dance video, lip sync or lip dub
video
____ I have taken photos that I intentionally design to be beautiful
____ I have composed a song or written song lyrics
____ I have produced a video
____ I have produced a video and uploaded it to YouTube, Vimeo or
someplace else
____ I have been featured in a podcast
____ I have created a podcast
____ I have created infographics, posters or visual material for large or public
audiences
____ I have implemented a social media marketing campaign
____ I have a substantial audience of folllowers on 1 or more of my social
media accounts
22. 17+
16 - 11
10 - 6
5 or less Emerging Digital Author
Developing Digital Author
Experienced Digital Author
Master Digital Author
23. Take Time to Reflect on Your Identity as a Digital Author
http://bit.ly/digreflect
29. How are You Helping to Develop the
Competencies We Need Today & In the Future?
30. 9 AM The Library Screen Scene
Learn creative strategies to address the learning needs of the YouTube
generation through supporting students' creative media production, as
well as their viewing, reading and listening comprehension and critical
analysis skills.
31. Literacy is the sharing of meaning
through symbols
@reneehobbs
47. What does it mean
to interrogate
digital media?
• be aware of the media environment
• choose media messages wisely
• be aware of your own personal biases
• actively comprehend & interpret messages in all genres
• analyze point of view, message purpose & source bias
• recognize stereotypes that influence attitudes & behaviors
• ask questions and notice what’s omitted from news &
information
• understand media systems, political economy & technologies
48. CREATIVE COLLABORATION INVOLVES
THE POWER OF TWO
1. Talk about this meme with a
partner to discover what you feel
and think
2. Jot down 2 – 3 points you want to
make
3. Make 1 or more image screenshots
to use in your simple video
production
4. Use Adobe Spark Video (or other
tool) to assemble a sequence of
images, using voice over to convey
your commentary
5. Post your completed work on the
Padlet Wall
@reneehobbs
WORK UNDER TIME PRESSURE
52. Authorship is about
control, power and the
management of
meaning and of
people as much as it is
about creativity and
innovation.
Authorship is a Form of Social Power
@reneehobbs
57. What Do You Know about Your Students’ Use
of Media?
● What are your predictions about how students would answer these
questions?
● How might their answers be similar or different from yours?
● Do you survey your students annually about their media use? Why or
why not?
58. Reflect on The Media You Use:
Starting to Think Like a Digital Author
Flipgrid
http://flipgrid.com @reneehobbs
59. @reneehobbs
FOUR KID-FRIENDLY CONCEPTS TO INTRODUCE
COPYRIGHT AND FAIR USE
1. “The Media I Make is Mine”
2. ”I Get Good Ideas from the Work of Others”
3. “I Know Where This Media Came From and Who Made It”
4. “I Used this Media But I Changed the ‘What’ and/or the ‘Why’”
66. @reneehobbs
Grade 5 students study advertising to
understand how media messages are
created to make products appealing to a
specific target audience.
Pulling slips of paper from a hat, students
are assigned a very specific product and a
very specific target audience.
After creating an online ad, students
explain their creative choices:
Product: Hand sanitizer
Target Audience: Fans of the Pittsburgh
Steelers
Brand Name: “Germ Tackler”
Appeal 1: Implied Celebrity Testimonial
with an image of quarterback Ben
Roethlisberger & Steelers logo.
Appeal 2: Click to enter contest & win a
ticket to the game..
67. @reneehobbs
FOUR KID-FRIENDLY CONCEPTS TO INTRODUCE
COPYRIGHT AND FAIR USE
1. “The Media I Make is Mine”
2. ”I Get Good Ideas from the Work of Others”
3. “I Know Where This Media Came From and Who Made It”
4. “I Used this Media But I Changed the ‘What’ and/or the ‘Why’”
73. Fair Use
An Example of Transformative Use
The purpose of the original: To
generate publicity for a concert.
The purpose of the new work:
To document and illustrate the
concert events in historical
context.
Bill Graham Archives vs. Dorling Kindersley,
Ltd. (2006)
75. 1. Did your use of the
work re-purpose or
transform the
copyrighted material?
2. Does your use merely
re-transmit the original
work? Could your work
serve as a substitute or
replacement for the
original?
3. Did you use only the
amount needed to
accomplish your
purpose?
Critical Questions for
Making a Fair Use
Determination
76. Copying to avoid making a purchase
Copying to merely exploit the popularity of
another’s work
Copies that become substitutes or
replacements for the original
77. COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT
A legal violation of the rights of authors,
who can control access to their creative
work
ATTTRIBUTION
Citing Your Sources
LAWSUIT, FINES & OTHER
PENALTIES
PLAGIARISM
Using other people’s creative
work by passing it off as your
own
78. Is Your Use of Copyrighted Materials a Fair Use?
1. Did the unlicensed use “transform” the material taken
from the copyrighted work by using it for a different
purpose than that of the original, or did it just repeat the
work for the same intent and value as the original?
2. Was the material taken appropriate in kind and amount,
considering the nature of the copyrighted work and of the
use?
80. How are students “creating to
learn” in your classroom?
How are you supporting the
development of student autonomy
and authority as digital authors?
What current activities
could be modified so
that students experience
the power of digital
authorship?
What potential impact might digital
authorship have on your learners?
@reneehobbs
82. 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
LEARN MORE
Web: www.mediaeducationlab.com