Media Literacy Week, hosted by National Association for Media Literacy Education, will be held from Monday, October 24 to Friday, October 28. Now in its eighth year, Media Literacy Week is intended to promote the important role of media literacy in education today. To celebrate, IU East will be hosting a panel discussion on Thursday,… Read more »
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Media Literacy Week and News Sources
Media literacy is a vital skill, allowing people to analyze and understand how messages, particularly those designed to persuade (whether presented anywhere from television news programs to Facebook advertisements), are crafted and how they exert their influence. A person who is able to recognize and mitigate the hidden influence of others is freer and more… Read more »
Get Educated on Education Databases!
As we finish the 5th week of school, it’s not too late to plan for future assignments such as mid-terms and final projects. Education students have a lot on their plate with placements for field experiences, creating lesson plans, and making sure they are on track to graduate. The IU East Campus Library has a… Read more »
Media Literacy Week
Media education is the discipline that teaches people how messages are created to influence and persuade others, and how to analyze and critique those claims dispassionately. It also empowers people how to craft their own messages to be best received by others, through any medium. Poor media literacy leaves a person vulnerable to manipulation, whether… Read more »
Education Questions
These last few weeks, we’ve been exploring where and how to do deep, scholarly research in the various disciplines, and this week we will look at education. Building off the general techniques we explored earlier, there are a lot of great sources for education research, and tools that meet the unique needs of teachers-to-be. For… Read more »
On-the-go learning: your digital life
This last week featured Digital Learning Day, a time to learn about and use technology effectively to improve education at all levels – from grade school to college to your career. Technology is all around us – so ubiquitous, in fact, that sometimes we don’t even notice it, or take full advantage of it. At… Read more »
Education Videos
A few weeks ago we looked at VAST, a multidisciplinary video source that can help you with your projects and presentations. But we have a lot of more specialized video databases, and if you are interested in education, one of them has just grown a lot bigger. Education in Video has just added content from… Read more »