The Evolution of K-12 Media Literacy Education

By Michael Haran 11/18/2014 (This article is an assignment abstract from EDCT 552, Dr. Maryanne Berry, SSU, MA-CTL) The article (Learning, Media and Technology, 2007, Media education goes digital: an introduction, David Buckingham, University of London, UK) is a continuation of the analysis of the evolution of the pedagogy of media literacy. Considering that this book was written in 2007 parts of it should be considered an historic view of not only the concepts of teaching medial literacy but also the practical application of the phenomenon....

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Education Technology – A Primer

This article is an abstract from SSU EDUC 571, Dr. Paula Lane, Capstone Research Assignment  Education Technology  What is education technology? Quite simply it’s the use of technology to educate. Not to be confused with technology education, which teaches the use of technology, education technology is the infrastructure, both hardware and software, that’s used in today’s modern classroom to facilitate the education of students. This included both in class (synchronistic) and distance (asynchronistic) learning.  Any technology cannot be...

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