[YL] Media Literacy Conference for K-12 and after school at MIT on October 27th.

[Alan Michel]

It has been two years since we had our wonderful conference: Media literacy,
Building Critical Thinking Skills In Our Media Age at MIT.  The conference
was a  snap shot of where the field was. Since Fall of 2005 so many things
have changed. The cell phone has cameras and people are sharing videos over
the internet on YouTube and MySpace. Music and video games are omnipresent,
and virtual worlds on the internet, such as Second Life are being co-opted
by large business and educators, who are discovering whole new avenues for
teaching, learning and commerce.

It feels right for us to take a look again at where we are and just how much
progress has been made in making Media Literacy a reality in education. What
have we accomplished?  What are we doing, with this unprecedented access to
online tools--- media that is created everywhere imaginable, and by anyone
with a cell phone. 

We are calling our conference , Media Literacy, Creating and Learning in a
Media Saturated Culture and have scheduled the conference for October 27th ,
2007 at MIT, the exact same conference facilities that we had on 05. For
more information, schedule of speakers and topics and to register please
visit our web site at http://homeinc.org/events.shtml.

Alan


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