February 11, 2010

New Media Literacies Skills for the 21st Century Monthly Webinar 1: Appropriation and Judgment
Online Webinar, 4:00 p.m.

USC Annenberg’s New Media Literacies Webinar Series will explore how we might best equip young people with the social skills and cultural competencies required to become full participants in an emergent media landscape through a series of monthly webinars. The white paper Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century (Jenkins et al., 2006) identifies the three core challenges: the participation gap, the transparency problem and the ethics challenge, and shares a provisionary list of skills needed for full engagement in today's participatory culture. Through a total of 8 webinars developed by NML with a team of cutting edge educators, we will explore these challenges and skills in depth. Each webinar will feature expert guest speakers, videos demonstrating each concept, interactive tools and resources for educators, as well as time for participation. Follow-up discussions and live chat sessions will take place via the NML Ning community site. A full schedule can be viewed here. For the first in this series, Appropriation and Judgment, join Vanessa Vartabedian, a team of New Hampshire educators and special guests as we look at what it means to meaningfully sample and remix media content in the context of your curriculum, demystify some of the the challenges copyright can present in the classroom and how you can help your students critically evaluate media sources.

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