mark lipton

It’s Marshall McLuhan’s birth. So the good folks at The University of Toronto Faculty of Information, and their friends at Ryerson University, York University, OCAD University, the City of Toronto, and others are hosting a conference and festival.

The McLuhan 100 · Then | Now | Next assembles a unique group of Canadian and international interdisciplinary experts on media and culture—including researchers from humanities, social sciences, science and technology departments, artists, and leading public thinkers.

Conference Program

I’m presenting my work about Media Literacy from the point of view of “New Media, New Policy Redux: Homage to Liss Jeffrey.” Full text of paper available if you ask.

Who’s in Boston for ACME & NCMR? ACME begins Thursday April 7th, 2011. The National Conference for Media Reform begins the following day.

The Action Coalition for Media Education is a national media education organization working to promote independent media education. ACME is the only national media education organization that does not take money from corporate media. This is ACME’s sixth national conference. Others have been held in New Mexico, California, Vermont, Tennessee and Minnesota. ACME conferences are exceedingly involved in activism for media reform; thus, Mark Lipton will also participate in the National Conference for Media Reform.

Mark Lipton is presenting as part of the Technology Track; Session four, (Thursday April 7th 2011) 2:15–3:30, in the Winthrop Room of the Boston Park Plaza Hotel.

Twitter, Facebook and Social Media Literacy: Equity, Pedagogy and the Use of Twitter to Build Professional Learning Networks

21st Century Skills can be defined as the capacity to engage in lifelong learning (i.e., self-directed and collaborative inquiry) and connectedness (i.e., communication and collaboration with experts and peers around the world). As teachers begin to adopt the latest technologies as part of their teaching practice, social media becomes both a critical resource and a functional tool. For example, Facebook can be a classroom management tool as well as a way to provide lessons about online privacy and behavior; Twitter can provide a backchannel for class participation while functioning as a resource for professional sharing and collaboration. To these ends, this presentation first reviews approaches to media education that weigh the differences between media access and digital equity, then outlines current research describing teachers’ barriers to media integration and finally considers such examples by addressing pedagogical models and examples. Ongoing research suggests that nearly half of freshly minted teachers leave the profession within five years; the goal of this session is to add value to any teacher’s learning networks.

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