Teaching media literacy in an algorithm-shaped attention environment
The media literacy curriculum most schools use was designed for a search-era internet. The feed era requires different lessons, and the work has gotten harder.
Reading, writing, and thinking in a media environment that wasn’t built in students’ interest. We cover information literacy, source evaluation, attention, and what it means to be a careful reader and a credible writer online.
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The media literacy curriculum most schools use was designed for a search-era internet. The feed era requires different lessons, and the work has gotten harder.
After a decade of blogging, we’re shifting how and where we share, moving to a new space better suited to curation and conversation, and announcing a forthcoming book of collected posts whose proceeds will support learning initiatives.
Reflections on how digital tools like the iPad, Instapaper, Kindle, and interactive magazine apps are transforming reading from passive consumption into a more participatory, connected, and collaborative experience.
So, let me say at the outset that I love books. All my life, I’ve been a reader of books. I have at least…
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A reflection on how tools like Diigo and emerging e-book platforms are transforming reading from a solitary act into a social, conversational experience, and what that means for new literacies.
A study on the “participation divide” in digital content creation suggests that online publishing remains unequally distributed by social background, creating a two-tiered system of contributors and consumers—and underscoring the need to teach these technologies in all classrooms, especially in lower socio-economic areas.
So the unending debate over whether or not reading on the Internet is “really” reading gets played out once again in this New York…
Reflections on Jeff Jarvis’s take on blogging ethics, the power of linking and quoting, and how these practices shape journalism, teaching, and expectations for non-fiction writing.
Nick Carr has a highly thought provoking piece in the Atlantic this month titled “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” that raises some challenging questions…