Media and Learning 2013

Learning from History / Lernen aus der Geschichte

Learning & Teaching offers teachers and other educators a free-of-charge resource pool of educational materials and methodological ideas. This website provides web seminars on themes in the field of historical and civic education, presented by experts from both academic and practical teaching contexts. As a registered user, you can take part in web seminars in real time and ask your own questions. Members can also share their own materials.

This website has four main areas: Learning & Teaching (in German), Participating & Networking, Learning Online & International Dialogue.

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Mathy Vanbuel


Cable in the classroom

Cable in the Classroom is the U.S. cable industry’s education foundation. Its mission is to foster the use of cable content and technology to expand and enhance learning for children and youth nationwide.Cable in the Classroom advocates for the visionary, sensible and effective use of media in homes, schools, and communities.

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Ursula Simmetsberger


Media Literacy for Prevention, Critical Thinking, Self-Esteem

Dr. Peter DeBenedittis is dedicated to creating a cultural revolution around media.This website contains research, information and educational materials about how media literacy is used for science-based prevention and internet safety.

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Ursula Simmetsberger


Story of Stuff

Annie Leonard explains how "stuff" or waste affects our communities at home and abroad. "The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world." The video can be divided into chapters, explains concepts with simple examples and in a humorous way.

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Peter Andries


The New Mexico Media Literacy Project

Media literacy - the ability to critically consume and create media - is an essential skill in today's world. Media literacy education seeks to give kids and adults greater freedom by empowering them to access, analyze, evaluate and produce media.

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Ursula Simmetsberger


Citizens for Media Literacy

Citizens for Media Literacy is a non-profit, public-interest organization linking media literacy with the concepts and practices of citizenship.

A major project of CML is the Mountain Area Information Network. MAIN is a nonprofit community network using integrated media technologies to expand the local public sphere.

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Mathy Vanbuel

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Citizens for Media Literacy (CML)
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Project Look Sharp

An initiative to promote and support the integration of media literacy into classroom curricula at all grade levels and instructional areas, as well as to evaluate the effectiveness of media literacy education in the schools.

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Ursula Simmetsberger


Case studies

The case studies show different ways that filmmaking was integrated into the academic context.

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Nikki Cortoos

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Claire Allam (content) & Danny Monaghan (design), Learning Development and Media Unit, University of Sheffield
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2007
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Teaching Media Literacy

This website is designed to support the book Teachingmedialiteracy.com: A Web-Linked Guide to Resources and Activities. In the book, links are cited according to a numbering system by chapter and topic.

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Ursula Simmetsberger


Learning Games - Games about learning or learning about games?

This is a blog about games, learning and both combined

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Peter Andries



12 - 13 December 2013 Flemish Ministry of Education Headquarters, Brussels #mlconf13
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