Media and Learning 2013

The MIT Video website aggregates and curates video produced by the Institute's offices, laboratories, centres and administration. This includes feature and editorial videos, event recordings, academic content and more. Each day, the editorial team at MIT Video selects one or more videos to "spotlight" based on the videos' content, production value and timeliness.

MIT Video currently contains more than 12,000 videos. Here are some of the most recently added and featured.

Zotero is an easy-to-use tool that helps to gather, organize, and analyse research sources (citations, full texts, web pages, images, and other objects). It works as a reference manager software, allowing to store author, title, and publication fields and to export that information as formatted references, but also integrates some more social features like the ability to interact, tag and share the results of the performed researches in a variety of ways.
Zotero is an extension to Firefox, so it can sense when users are viewing a book, article, or other object through the browser, and —on many major research and library sites—find and automatically save the full reference information for the item in the correct fields. For the same reason, it can effortlessly transmit information to, and receive information from, other web services and applications. It can also communicate with software running on your computer (such as Microsoft Word) and be used offline (e.g., on a plane, in an archive without WiFi).
Zotero's Unicode support allows you to import, store, and cite items in any language. You can change the language of Zotero, and of the citations and bibliographies created by Zotero. Finally, there is an experimental multilingual version of Zotero, which supports storage of item metadata in more than one language (transliterations and translations).
Documentation is completely available in English and most of the pages are also translated in many other languages.

Cette ressource pédagogique a pour objectif l'étude de la différentiation des rôles au sein des groupes sociaux.

En montrant deux expérimentations filmées, l'une sur l'animal, l'autre sur l'homme, elle permet, à l'étudiant, de comprendre les différentes étapes du travail scientifique sur des exemples concrets.

Elle aborde et approfondit plusieurs thèmes : coopération/compétition, auto-organisation, analogie homme/animal.

La ressource pédagogique comporte 5 parties.

La première partie est un film de 14 minutes extrait d'un documentaire intitulé "Faits comme des rats" présentant une première expérience de différenciation sociale chez des animaux réalisée par le professeur Didier Desor. Cette expérience est à l’origine de la ressource réalisée ici, car elle amené les chercheurs et entre autre par le professeur Anne-Marie Toniolo à se poser la question de la transposition de l’expérience à l’homme.

La deuxième partie présente la transposition de cette expérience chez l’homme. Elle reconstitue grâce à des figurants une des nombreuses expériences réalisées sur l’homme. Cette-ci est réalisée sous forme de photomontage sonorisé d’environ 8 minutes et détaille les différentes étapes de l’expérience réalisée avec des étudiantes et analogue à celle des rats.

La troisième partie est l'interprétation des résultats des expériences et la présentation du concept d’auto organisation à travers un entretien avec Anne-Marie Toniolo la responsable du programme de recherche. Cet entretien, d’une durée de 23 minutes , est filmé et présenté sous forme de questions –réponses.

La quatrième partie est un vidéo cours sur l'étude de la transposition de l’expérience vers l’humain .Dans ce cours de 52 min l’auteur Annne-Marie Toniolo détaille les éléments intervenant dans les processus interactifs complexes intervenant dans des groupes restreints. Elle analyse des phénomènes collectifs dans des environnements collaboratifs à partir d’une expérience chez l’animal et d’un transfert de modèle théorique et expérimental chez l’humain. Les notions de groupe, d’interaction, d’auto-organisation, de comportement et d’analogie y sont entre autre présentées.

La cinquième partie comporte des exercices d'autoévaluation. Elle comporte quatorze exercices interactifs comportant des vidéos et portant sur l’ensemble des contenus de la ressource : film sur l’expérience des rats, photomontage sur l’expérience chez l’humain , interview du chercheur et vidéo cours. Elle permet ainsi à l’étudiant de vérifier qu’il a assimilé les concepts essentiels mais aussi de revoir certains contenus d’un façon différente car extraits de leur contexte.
La conclusion vous donnera les contacts des enseignants et des informations concernant les enseignements utilisant cette ressource

Communicationspace is a multidimensional online network, based on a Ning community platform, for the media and communication studies academic communities. Sponsored by SAGE, the site is open to anyone studying or researching in media studies, mass communication, journalism, new media, games studies, interpersonal communication and the many other communication studies fields. It is created for students and researchers to network and share research, resources and debates.

Xplore Health is a European educational portal on cutting-edge health research that offers innovative multimedia and hands-on experiences to young people through the internet, schools and science centres and museums. This project's aims are: to bridge the gap between research and education, to inspire future researchers, to promote scientific literacy and to stimulate dialogue.
On the Xplore Health website, you can find a multimedia gallery with lots of videos, games and experiments and various resources for educators such as classroom activities, educators' guides and experiments protocols.

The EU-HOU project ("Hands-On Universe, Europe. Bringing frontline interactive astronomy to the classroom") is a collaboration of hundreds of teachers and scientists from 14 countries with the purpose of creating a way for students to get excited by science, primarily through the use of astronomy.

This project developed hands-on exercises (available at http://www.euhou.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=4...) in lot of different languages, designed to promote an active learning by giving student real astronomical data to find a new planet, explore volcanos on the moons of Jupiter, classify stars, or weigh a galaxy. Each exercise comes complete with detailed instructions for how easily display, analyze, and interpret the data in the classroom, using the free software SalsaJ, downloadable at http://www.euhou.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=8&Itemid=10.

This report is the result of a seven-month research project into the connections and discontinuities between children’s digital literacy practices at home and in school. It formed one strand of a larger project exploring children’s digital participation.

This report provides a brief introduction to the research project, setting out the key ideas underpinning the research, and describes the research project and methods used. It then presents and explores findings from the research, drawing out some common themes and discussing challenges and opportunities for connecting children’s digital literacy between home and school.

This report aims to provide evidence of children’s current digital literacy practices, where there are opportunities for connections to be developed or established between home and school, and where there are disconnections that may need to be addressed. This report is likely to be of interest to researchers and primary and secondary teachers interested in the field of digital literacy.

In 2010 Pearson Foundation published a report entitled "The Digital World of Young Children: Impact on Emergent Literacy” which addresses the importance of studying the effect of digital media on young minds. Written by Jay Blanchard and Terry Moore from the Arizona State University College of Teacher Education and Leadership, this
report asks as many questions as it answers, will an increased access to digital media lead young children to self-direct their own learning process? What might be the effects of added digital stimuli on attention and comprehension?
On the webpage you can download the full report in pdf format.

The Divis project (Digital video streaming and multilingualism) is a European funded Project that run from October 2008 to September 2010. It aims to encourage, motivate and equip both teacher trainers and practising language teachers to include video production in their teaching.
The official report of the project is available here:
http://divisproject.eu/attachments/019_com_mp_141759_divis.pdf

Initial research was undertaken to establish how teachers feel about the use of video production and what skills and experience they had in this area. From the results of the research, the project team developed a online guide to address the teachers' needs, introducing creative and non-conventional teaching methods and samples to support implementation of video work in the classroom as well as providing technical support. The manual is available in many languages on the following webpage:
http://divisproject.eu/categoryblog/143-mini-guide-download-page

On the Divis project website, you can also find very good examples of usage of videos, photo stories, dramas, and television news in education. There is also a useful technical support section:
http://divisproject.eu/technical-support

This site shows visitors a collection of videos, shot at the European Planetary Science Congress 2008 in Münster, Germany. EPSC 2008 is the third international planetary science conference organised by the European Planetology Network, EuroPlaNet, financed by the European Commission. Visitors can view this "new video narrowcast service, that will give you an impression of a selection of every day's talks, with interviews with some of the speakers, younger and more senior, as well as the general ambience at the charming conference site."