On this episode of Media Inside Out, host Sherri Hope Culver welcomes guests Andrew Coletti, Tamara Sniad, and Janel McCloskey, MA, to discuss Educational Podcasts.

Celular, televisão, rádio, Youtube, Instagram… Como sobreviver a tantas telas e a tantas informações? Todos estamos imersos em mídias e informação nos tempos de hoje. Para crianças e jovens, a ética do uso da tecnologia e o desenvolvimento de habilidades para selecionar as informações e navegar com segurança não são inatos. Por isso, a escola, a família e as próprias mídias têm papel importante no desenvolvimento da chamada educação midiática, desde a primeira infância até a terceira idade. Para explorar o tema a fundo, o LC Talks recebe Sherri Hope Culver, diretora do Centro de Infância e Mídias e professora da Temple University (Filadélfia, Estados Unidos). Sherri conversa com Alexandre Sayad sobre como podemos, juntos, em casa e com orientação da escola educar os filhos para esse mundo de excesso de informações e escassez de significados. O LC Talks acontece na Unidade JK, dia 11 de outubro, terça-feira, às 19h00.

Sherri Hope Culver Center for Media and Information Literacy, Temple University, USA @sherrihope1 The path to media literacy begins with kids 46 organizations and 150 participants from 22 countries gathered in Bratislava at the Media Literacy 360° Forum & Fair to scale existing media literacy initiatives, share best practices, and empower citizens, including kids and seniors, to play an increasingly important role in combating disinformation and fake news, in the digital space. At the two-day event, digital journalists, educators, entrepreneurs, civil society activists, and representatives of international organizations will have a chance to look at media literacy in a comprehensive way The Forum was sponsored by the U.S. Department of State Office of Citizen Exchanges and coordinated by Digital Communication Network, an international association, connecting global influencers and communicators of the digital age and World Learning, a global NGO empowering people and strengthening institutions.

“Trust Me” is a feature documentary exploring manipulation and misinformation at the intersection of human nature and information technology. The film explains how that drives a need for media & digital literacy.

Professor Sherri Hope Culver covers the Children’s Media Conference, which brings together delegates from TV, interactive media, games, licensing, toys, radio, book and magazine publishing, and the arts and culture sector to share ideas, best practices and inspiration on how to make better media content for kids. While at the conference Professor Culver speaks to professionals to gain insight into the industry and hear their hopes for what it can become in the future. She also asks them what advice they would have for students interested in getting into the field themselves.

Video games have moved from being categorized as simply a recreational activity, to include a wide range of creative, often educational and often money-making media platform. Gamification, the term for this movement, has deep implications for learning, visual imagery, and commercialism, among other topics. You can see its influence in how educators are trying to engage students, how advertisers are trying to engage customers, and how governments are trying to engage citizens. On this live episode of Media Inside Out, host Sherri Hope Culver spoke with three experts in the field to critically examine the benefits and concerns of this movement.

On this episode of Media Inside Out, host Sherri Hope Culver welcomes a group of insightful and articulate students from Cristo Rey Philadelphia High School. Together, they delve into the ever-evolving world of media from the perspective of today's youth.