Mediacy

Pope Leo dropped Magnifica Humanitas, his encyclical addressing the challenges of Artificial Intelligence, on a significant anniversary. Sister Rose Pacatte, a Catholic media literacy educator, joins Carol Arcus, Chelsea Attwell and Neil Andersen to discuss and highlight the encyclical's messages and meanings for parents and teachers.

Pope Leo dropped Magnifica Humanitas, his encyclical addressing the challenges of Artificial Intelligence, on a significant anniversary. Sister Rose Pacatte, a Catholic media literacy educator, joins Carol Arcus, Chelsea Attwell and Neil Andersen to discuss and highlight the encyclical's messages and meanings for parents and teachers.

The second half of a conversation between Tim King (digital gadfly) and Neil Andersen (intrepid pedagog).
Tim reflects on his secondments into the global IT environment, the many exciting and challenging ideas he encountered and his wonderings and worries about the rapid evolution of digital technologies.
Neil wonders how we might exploit Tim's ideas to develop meaningful media literacy pedagogies.

In this episode of Mediacy, educators will gain valuable strategies on how to engage young children with media literacy, including using media literacy competencies, making media, and easy ways to start the year with media literacy as a vehicle to build classroom community! Don't miss this conversation! Happy listening. 

This episode is part 2 of our conversation with Dr. Rogow last spring. To listen to the first podcast in this series, click here.

Dr Faith Rogow helped found the U.S.-based National Association for Media Literacy Education, Project Look Sharp, and the Journal of Media Literacy Education. She has also written a number of books and articles on media literacy education, including the recent groundbreaking text, Media Literacy for Young Children: Teaching Beyond the Screen Time Debates (2022).

To purchase a copy of the book, visit https://www.naeyc.org/resources/pubs/books/media-literacy.