Media Education and Literacy: Equipping Learners for Open, Creative Learning Futures
Join us for Media & Learning 2013 – targeted at practitioners and policy makers interested in exploring and discussing media supported learning at all levels of education and training. Get to grips with the latest trends in teaching and learning, expand your network and see for yourself how innovative teachers and trainers all over Europe are changing the learning environment for the better.
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Themes for 2013
- Putting in place effective classroom practices that protect and empower the learner
Media-supported science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) teaching
- Creating and curating open educational media resources that can be used and shared by everyone
Putting in place effective media literacy schemes in collaboration with broadcasters
- Maximising the use of media, by making it second nature for teachers
Turning classrooms into creative learning spaces for all types of learners
- Moving beyond recording to flexible and effective use of lecture capture - flipping the classroom to make the best use of limited educational resources
Film and image education as a core competence for today’s learner
- Improving learning opportunities through the use of serious games
Visual interactive interfaces helping learners to analyse big data and learn with them
Media-supported science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) teaching
Putting in place effective media literacy schemes in collaboration with broadcasters
Turning classrooms into creative learning spaces for all types of learners
Film and image education as a core competence for today’s learner
Visual interactive interfaces helping learners to analyse big data and learn with them
Latest conference news
Renee Hobbs to give a key-note presentation at Media & Learning
As a researcher, teacher, advocate and media professional Prof Renee Hobbs is one of the leading authorities on media literacy education in the US and around the world. She is responsible for setting up the Media Education Lab, as well as the first national teacher education program in the US in media literacy.
As a researcher, teacher, advocate and media professional Prof Renee Hobbs is one of the leading authorities on media literacy education in the US and around the world. She is responsible for setting up the Media Education Lab, as well as the first national teacher education program in the US in media literacy.
Conference 2013 features
Media & Learning 2013 will feature several pre-conference workshops, an expanded demonstration area and lots of discussion space. Confirmed workshops so far include a dedicated one day event on exploring innovation in lecture capture organised in collaboration with KU Leuven.
