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- May 2019
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- 0:37 - need to recognize the networked nature of today's media
- 0:37 - need to recognize the networked nature of today's media
- 0:48 - work within traditional media literacy and build on things that have worked for decades, but recognize what has changed and use the strengths of networked media
- 1:05 - how do children check sources on the internet
- 1:20 - one of the simplest ways is to follow the links back to the source
- 1:34 - when it's a photo, you can do a reverse image search
- 1:50 can do a news search and sort by date to see if the news story is current
- 2:45 - misinformation campaigns happening - mixing genuine content with misinformation
- 3:25 - some create alternate identities or fake accounts
- 4:25 - important to get a sense of how reliable a source is
- 4:35 - what is the purpose of the source and what is their business model? - is there accuracy and reliability in this, then likely will trust it as a source
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- 5:10 - impact that we don't get our news from a limited number of sources
- 5:45 - some of these sources are from friends on social media, others are algorithmically determined
- 6:08 - some advantages and disadvantages - the old model was news curated in a newspaper; new model has the potential of getting news we may not have gotten in the old model
- 6:20 but in the old system you had gatekeeping and 'provenance'; in online news it's sometimes an effort to see where the information originates; gate keeping falls to us now
- 7:05 we need to train young people to do this
- 7:30 how should we teach this?
- 7:35 - with the concept approach you don't need to feel like an expert
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- 7:40 - success teaching media literacy from the key concepts for three decades; begin from these
- 7:52 - media are constructed;
- 7:55 - they have commercial considerations;
- 7:58 they have social and political implications;
- 8:00 that audiences negotiate meaning;
- 8:05 that each medium has a unique form and the form influences the content
- 8:20 these can be applied to any form of media and adapted to any grade from K-12
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- 8:30 so the key concepts of digital literacy are paralleled and are in addition to those, they don't replace the original five concepts
- 8:40 now have implications of digital literacies in that they are networked so we need to understand the idea of the network
- 8:50 understand that content now is shareable, that this is the default rather than the exception
- 8:55 - the ways the tools we use influence not just the content but the ways we use them
- 9:05 - this has an impact, an ethical dimension
- 9:10 - these can be applied in any context and to any grade level
- 9:20 - we have a full digital literacy curriculum that we offer (speaking about Media Smarts Canada); it has lessons on seven different aspects that a teacher or school board can use
- 9:45 - the value of the key concepts is teachers can modify these resources to their contexts
- 9:50 - teachers have in those key concepts what is essentially a GUIDING STAR to understand what they are supposed to be achieving with these lessons
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