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Life Skills

Diverse Discourse, Limited Action: Media Literacy in East Asia

  Media literacy is undoubtedly a must-have competence in the 21st century as various white paper, policies and research results all over the world attest. In this opinion piece, we do not have to argue for the importance of media literacy and to prove the crucial role it plays in the education system. It may, […]

March 26, 2018
Dr. Tzu-Bin Lin
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Life Skills

Media Literacy’s Pivotal Role in a Disinformation Society

  These are interesting times for media literacy scholars and practitioners. The media landscape has been shaken up by growing concerns about online disinformation and propaganda. After the term ‘fake news’ was catapulted to the forefront during the 2016 US presidential election campaigns, European Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society, Mariya Gabriel has made it […]

March 26, 2018
Ms Eva Van Passel
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Access and Inclusion

Fake News: Is Media Literacy a Solution?

  The world today feels mired in crisis. Democracies are under increasing pressure from fringe and populist political parties, who leverage the connective technologies of the web to further expand their voice and impact. In places like France, Italy, Poland, and Sweden, populist groups have surfaced with strong support for nationalist agendas, supported by online […]

March 22, 2018
Mr. Paul Mihailidis
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Learning Ecosystems and Leadership

Why is Media Education Critical in Today’s Attention Economy?

  Today, in 2018, being media literate is fast becoming an essential skill to have. Although propaganda and the shaping of opinion is not something new, the current media environment makes the process of influencing people’s mind and behaviour much more effective and works on a larger scale using sophisticated tools such as surveillance machinery […]

March 20, 2018
Mr. Paolo Celot
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Learning Ecosystems and Leadership

Preparing African Youth for a Post-Truth World

  The Internet has changed the process of information gathering and dissemination around the world. Young people in Africa, like their counterparts in other parts of the world, have been impacted by this new phase in the evolution of communication. The Internet revolution has created opportunities and problems – “fake news,” hate speech, online radicalization, […]

March 20, 2018
Mr. Chido Onumah
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Access and Inclusion

Media Literacy: A Key to Digital Citizenship

  Mass media play an increasingly significant role in today’s society. Even when one is not searching for information, mass media permeate everyone’s environment, influencing their world view and decision-making. Therefore, young people need to consciously and critically analyze and evaluate mass media messages and only then decide how to respond.  Otherwise, they will not […]

March 15, 2018
Prof. Lesley Farmer
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Access and Inclusion

What is Media Literacy and How Should We Teach it?

  Although we in the media literacy field are delighted that we are receiving long-overdue recognition and movement towards more implementation of media literacy initiatives, the true mission and character of the global media literacy movement is in danger of being drowned out with uninformed noise. Let me be clear:  media literacy is NOT just:  […]

March 7, 2018
Ms Tessa Jolls
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Access and Inclusion

What Happens in a ‘One Subject for the Entire Day’ Classroom?

My schooling experience in an education system that taught through rote learning convinced me that Mark Twain was right about not mixing his schooling with his education. Like me, most students from different parts of the world who went through such a system would agree that learning in schools can be boring, mostly irrelevant, stressful […]

January 21, 2018
Jyoti Rahaman
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Access and Inclusion

Quality Affordable Schools Lift Up Marginalized Children

Joseph Barak, a 14-year-old from Koru, Kisumu County, western Kenya walked five kilometers through sugar plantations every day to attend his low-cost school. His parents, a small-scale farmer and a domestic helper, shared in Joseph’s struggle to get him to a high-quality school. Their efforts have paid off. Joseph’s high score in the Kenyan national […]

December 18, 2017
Dr. Steve Cantrell
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Higher Education

Higher Education is Getting Digital

There has been “digital” in higher education for a very long time. From the earliest computers to the beginnings of the internet, higher education has always found ways to use technology to capitalize on the power, scale, and efficiency of digital. When I was an undergraduate student at university, email was an emerging digital technology. […]

November 30, 2017
Mr. Eric Stoller
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Higher Education

How Do We Make Higher Education More Equitable?

Higher education should be at the forefront of attempts to navigate a route through the confluence of disruptive forces affecting the world in the early 21st century. There are numerous examples of how higher education contributes to the common good – from innovative ways in delivering higher education that are reaching those displaced by the […]

November 10, 2017
Dr. Graeme Atherton
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Higher Education

We Have to Rethink What It Means to be “Educated” in a Post-Truth World

  It used to be fairly easy to explain what it means to be educated. Education involves schooling, and as a general rule, the more schooling you have, the better educated you become. Unfortunately, as I will argue below, that answer may no longer be sufficient; there is evidence to suggest that the causal link […]

November 8, 2017
Stavros Yiannouka

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