Learning - Educational Technologies - Articles Archive
from September 12, 2009 to June 6, 2009

In this weekly Media Literacy Digest, open education advocate George Siemens, reports on emergent media and technology issues and on the future impact that these new technologies may have on the way you work, learn and interact with others. Inside this Media Literacy Digest: Reorganizing For The Online ... read more

In this weekly Media Literacy Digest, open education advocate George Siemens, shares his latest insights, discoveries and doubts on the impact that information and communication technologies have on our society and work. Inside this Media Literacy Digest: Struggling For a Metaphor of Change - I am trying to ... read more

What are the traits that would make for the ideal 21st teacher? What does an educational professional need to be or do to tune in and synchronize with the new realities silently emerging inside schools and educational environments? The profound, deep shifts we are starting to ... read more

In this weekly Media Literacy Digest, media expert George Siemens shares pointers and resources to help you make sense of how new media technologies are changing the world around you. Inside this Media Literacy digest: How Do Organizations Respond To Emerging Technologies? - Businesses, schools, and universities are ... read more

"My desire would be that someone in any country of the world could access the best of the brightest minds and observe the learning experience that goes on in the classrooms of Yale, Harvard, and Stanford... [and] that not only do we make our resources available ... read more

In this issue of MasterNewMedia weekly media literacy digest, open education advocate George Siemens, explores issues in technology and education that directly influence the way we work and think about our future. Inside this Media Literacy Digest: Location - The prominence of mobile devices is raising the profile ... read more

What is disinformation? How news media manage to deceive and lie? What you and I can do to recognize misleading sources? In this guide H. Michael Sweeney uncovers the most effective disinformation tactics to help you identify half-truths. Disinformation is false or inaccurate information that is ... read more

In this weekly media literacy digest, open education advocate George Siemens shares key media and technology stories that directly affect your media, your work and and society as a whole. In this Media Literacy Digest: More Enterprise Social Software Strategies: Issues to consider in your enterprise’s internal ... read more

How important is going to be the role of the "newsmaster" in the future? Is this network middle layer of human filterers and scanners actually emerging? What about serious business talk: Could the newsmastering practice ever become a professionally sustainable role? And what is its value? ... read more

In this weekly media literacy digest, educational technologies expert George Siemens takes you to breaking news and stories that directly affect media, education and society as a whole. Inside this Media Literacy Digest: Future Knowledge Ecosystems: The Next Twenty Years of Technology-Led Economic Development - A report ... read more

George Siemens' Media Literacy Digest is back, like every week, to bring news, analysis and opinion on key changes and facts happening at the cross-road between technology, education, media and society. A quick guide to maintain perspective and a critical eye on the key changes taking ... read more

Media literacy is a critical skill that aims to increase the understanding of how mass media produce meaning and construct reality. In a world where knowledge is increasingly distributed and technological developments are shaping new educational paradigms, the ability to filter relevant information is not to ... read more

While on the web you keep hearing that we are in the so-called web 2.0 era, the age of collaboration, sharing, questioning and having a bottom-up approach, when you go to a physical conference or a live event it seems as if you are taking a ... read more

As new and old media pervade so many aspects of our lives, it is very important that everyone learns to decode and interpret messages and images and to ask critical questions about who is creating them and for what purpose. Inside this Media Literacy Digest: Addressing Problems ... read more

Emerging technologies, the global economy and the Internet are changing what it means to be literate. As digital communications transform the quantity, range and speed of information and exchanges in our lives, increasingly, the ability to interpret and create media becomes a form of literacy as ... read more

Media literacy is about asking pertinent questions about what's there, and noticing what's not there. And it's the instinct to question what lies behind media productions - the motives, the money, the values and the ownership - and to be aware of how these factors influence ... read more

Media Literacy moves from recognising and comprehending information to the higher order critical thinking skills such as questioning, analysing and evaluating that information. (Source: OFcom) Inside this Media Literacy digest: Attention and Distraction - Educators and trainers face competition for attention from mobile devices and social networking services. Social ... read more

Media Literacy: Activities for independent communication via media in an information society, and the technologies and knowledge that support these activities (Source: digitalstorytelling) Inside this Media Literacy digest: Foreverism - Foreverism encompasses the many ways that consumers and businesses are embracing conversations, relationships, and products that are never ... read more

Media literacy is the ability to analyze and evaluate the media to which we are exposed; it is a complex subject. Although most of us suffer from sensory over-stimulation from media, most do not have the time, or do not take the time, to analyze the ... read more

"Media literacy is an expanded conceptualization of literacy. By transforming the process of media consumption into an active and critical process, people gain greater awareness of the potential for misrepresentation and manipulation, and understand the role of mass media and participatory media in constructing views of ... read more