Art, media, opinion and ideas
I'm in Kilkenny today, at Podcamp Ireland. It is a very diverse group of people- more demographically spread than any other gathering I've been to. I was talking about using the PaperRound methodology to teach media literacy, and broader critical thinking, to, mostly, Transition Year Students.
I wrote earlier in the week about some of the speeches and reports at the mediaforum symposium on critical media literacy. I'd like to come back to that today with some more thoughts. I can't promise that they're better than the ones I had earlier, but they did take longer for me to come up with them.
The mediaforum symposium on Saturday last provoked a couple of thoughts I wanted to get down before they faded away. Firstly, I greatly enjoyed listening to most of the conference participants. Given it was primarily a conference about education policy - something I am a stranger to- this was an achievement in itself.
I'll be attending the MediaForum symposium (minus toga) "Media Literacy Education" in Cultivate on Saturday morning and giving a breakout session talk on using the Paper Round methodology in Post-Primary schools. It looks like it will be an interesting day. It starts from 10am, and runs until 2pm-ish.
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