Reflections on Media Education Futures: Contributions to the Conference Media Education Futures in Tampere, Finland 2014

摘要

This edition of the yearbook from the International Clearinghouse on Children, Youth, and Media addresses questions dealing with new technologies. The Media Education movement has become intensely aware of the need for it to rethink many of its principles, trainings, and approaches. At the time of its foundation "media" referred primarily to television and media education focused its attention on the interactions of children and television, and on the need to better prepare children to live in a world that presented information in ways so different from the traditional classroom or the traditional textbook. In the last decade, those involved in what they now term "media and information literacy" (MIL) have become deeply aware of the impact of screen technology, the use of so many different kinds of digital technologies that appeal to children. Children's total hours of screen time far exceed their hours of television alone. The focus of the conference on which this book reports dealt specifically with these kinds of new technologies as well as with the future of media education.