Education & Training

Governors, educators include "media" in voluntary U.S. core-curriculum standards; but do they go far enough?

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By Bill Densmore

"Media literacy" concepts are generally part of a major effort to push adoption of voluntary "Common Core State Standards" for English and literacy in history, social, studies, science and technical subjects, an initial line-by-line comparison of drafts shows. But do the standards go far enough?

Proposal unveiled to hire 50 laid-off journalists to teach "news literacy" to non-journalism college majors

Submitted by Bill Densmore on Thu, 03/12/2009 - 10:36.
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Stony Brook University unveiled on Friday a proposal to hire 50 laid-off journalists to undergo training this summer and join dozens of U.S. university campuses in the fall to teach "news literacy" to non-journalism majors.

Journalists, educators adopt statement on need for 'news literacy' in schools

Submitted by Bill Densmore on Sat, 10/25/2008 - 08:53.
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Journalists, educators, reformers and citizens gathere last week at Temple University and the National Constitution Center adopted a statement on the need for news literacy in America's schools.    (http://www.rebootingthenews.org)

Poynter seminar tackles question: "What is news literacy?

Submitted by Bill Densmore on Wed, 08/13/2008 - 18:14.
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Poynter seminar photo

About 50 journalists, journalism educators and researchers gatherered with high-school students at the Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg, Fla., in the start of a drive to get American newspapers interested in promoting "news literacy."
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UC-Berkeley fills in where media leaves off -- providing three $45K fellowships for investigative reporting

Submitted by Bill Densmore on Wed, 05/23/2007 - 20:52.
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Three fellowships worth $45,000 a year will be awarded annually by the University of California Berkeley journalism school to encourage investigative reporting at a time when main-stream media is cutting back on newsrooms, according to the school.

A guide to citizen journalism published by Hartsville (S.C.) Today

Submitted by Bill Densmore on Mon, 09/25/2006 - 21:53.
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K. Paul Mallasch at MuncieFreePress.com has taken note of a tremendous resource for budding citizen journalists. The staff of the Hartsville [S.C.]Today CitiJ website in Hartsville, S.C., have authored -- in PDF format -- a guide to setting up a citizen journalism site. (PDF DOWNLOAD) Mallasch also references a 2005 participatory-media study by Hypergene's Shayne Bowman and Chris Willis. For hot links to these, click on the headline above.

Knight-funded website at Univ. of Maryland provides "how-to" information for citizen-media projects

Submitted by Bill Densmore on Thu, 09/21/2006 - 22:30.
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J-Lab, a project at the University of Maryland-College Park funded by the Knight Foundation, has developed a comprehensive site for community groups and citizens who want to launch online journalism/news projects. It's called J-Learning.

Study media innovation / launch New England news council

Submitted by Bill Densmore on Wed, 09/06/2006 - 15:05.
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ONA conference Oct. 5-7 features workshops on citizen-journalism, classroom convergence, crafting multimedia, digitizing print n

Submitted by Bill Densmore on Sun, 07/30/2006 - 08:31.
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The Online News Association, formed by the new-media managers of major journalism organizations, is offering four one-day workshops prior to its annual conference, which this year is Oct. 6-7 in Washington, D.C.  There's a citizens-media summit at the Capital Hilton, a college-educators summit convening at USAToday's offices and at American University, a crafting-multimedia content session, and one on "digitizing the print newsroom."   All four workshops take place on Thurs., Oct. 5.  There's also a conference blog established.

EDUCATION: Kids concentrate, some grades improve, by summer research will show effects of outfitting seventh-graders with laptop

Submitted by Bill Densmore on Sun, 02/12/2006 - 07:19.
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Teachers and administrators in two Massachusetts school districts that outfitted seventh-graders with laptops under a state-funding experiment say the program is cutting down on discipline problems. Students are happier coming to school, some parents say grades are improving and not too many children are said to be listing to music on their machines during school. The laptops were distributed two months ago; research on their effects on learning is underway with some results expected by summer. The Berkshire Wireless Learning Initiative targeted schools in North Adams (pop. 14,000) and Pittsfield (pop. 44,285). [ALTERNATE LINK] (Original Source: The Berkshire Eagle, Feb. 12, 2006)
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