Defining and evaluating media literacy as competences based on different frameworks

Fastrez, Pierre;Burton, Lara
(2019) International Association for Media Education (IAME) Master Classes: Media Education, Politics and Society — Location: Institut des Hautes Etudes en Communication Sociale (IHECS), Bruxelles (2.September.2019)

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Master class theme Although the media education and media literacy community has long agreed on a standard definition for media literacy (Aufderheide & Firestone, 1993), there seems to be little agreement of what competences media literacy specifically consists in, or even on the fact that media literacy is indeed a (set of) competence(s). The master class will cover the topic of how digital and media literacy has been defined in terms of competences or skills in the literature, by reviewing several existing definitions and frameworks (e.g. Carretero Gomez, Vuorikari, & Punie, 2017; Fastrez, 2010; Jenkins, Purushotma, Clinton, Weigel, & Robison, 2006; Mioduser, Nachmias, & Forkosh-Baruch, 2008; van Dijk & van Deursen, 2014). The different organizing principles in the frameworks will be highlighted in order to compare and contrast their overall logic, and to assess their usefulness in the evaluation of media literacy. Participants will then be invited to apply one or several of these frameworks to one media education/media literacy initiative from their own professional context. Master class method The class will consist in a lecture and a workshop. The lecture will be dedicated to the introduction of the issue of defining and evaluating media literacy as competences, and to the review of reference frameworks. The workshop will have small groups of participants work on the application of the frameworks to their own media education/media literacy projects.
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Fastrez, P. (2019). Defining and evaluating media literacy as competences based on different frameworks. International Association for Media Education (IAME) Master Classes: Media Education, Politics and Society, Institut des Hautes Etudes en Communication Sociale (IHECS), Bruxelles. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/27422