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Kids Today
What can you teach students about media that they don't already know?
October 2nd, 2007The Independent's own Barbara Woloch, a program manager at Home Inc., a group that teaches media literacy skills to young adults, will be hosting two panel discussions on her work at a conference in Boston this weekend. Barbara's organization is partnering with MIT's department of Comparative Media Studies to host the event, which will look at the challenges faced by educators in a media-saturated world. To read more about Barbara's work, check out her inaugural blog entry "Kids Today".
Teen media, social media, instant messaging, podcasts – all terms I’ve become familiar with over the last three months when I assumed the role of program manager at a media literacy organization. At the time, I was terribly old school. I’m a woman of a certain age, one who remembers sticking two pieces of celluloid together with a bit of tape.
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