The advancement and incorporation of media in daily life continue to grow exponentially as the median age of humanity continues to rise. While there are media literacy education programs targeted toward children and adolescents, older adults are often left out of these initiatives. Based on ethnographic research conducted at two senior centers in Denton, TX, this thesis explores the way older adults analyze and interact with media. Data collection methods include participant observation and semi-structured interviews with senior center members over the age of 65. The research findings highlight how older adults navigate an expanding information society and how they lean on their community for support. These findings laid the foundation for the creation of a media literacy educational seminar given at both senior centers.

This dissertation investigated the media literacy experiences of middle school students enrolled in a Texas school. The literature review suggested that middle school students may be overlooked as a distinct population in media literacy research. The primary guiding questions for this inquiry were (1) How is media literacy exhibited by middle school students within a formal school context? (2) How does an elective film and media class impact middle school students' media literacy? And (3) How do middle grade students' responses to media correspond with theoretical models for media literacy? The phenomenological research methodology included a reflective analysis of students' textual responses to non-print media clips (N=24) and a reflective analysis of follow-up personal interviews with a smaller group of middle school participants (n=5). A questionnaire completed by participants provided descriptive statistics about the sample group. Additionally, theoretical models of media literacy were used to evaluate participants' media responses in relation to theoretical constructs for media literacy. The findings resulted in 11 emergent themes which can be used to further discourse about media literacy and its role in middle school curriculum. The dissertation includes implications for educators based upon the emergent themes, as well as recommendations for further research.

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Adolescents and teens are surrounded by a myriad of influences that affect how they see and present themselves. Contemporary communication for these young people frequently happens in an online forum through digital social media. The primary purpose of this master's thesis is to examine the affect of digital social media on adolescent and teen identity construction and perception of self and other. Further research was performed to identify how that identity can be expressed through theatrical performance. The first chapter is a review of current literature, theory and practice of those within the educational paradigm who are trying to incorporate media literacy skills into contemporary pedagogy. An action research project was formulated to create lesson plans that aid students in engaging critically with digital social media and then empowering them with the skills to access, analyze, evaluate and create that media. Students then use their findings in the creation of a devised theatre piece. Chapter Two discusses the methodology involved with the gathering of the data and the process of analysis using open coding. Chapter Three presents the findings and exhibits student work and Chapter Four analyzes the findings and presents a course for future study, research and use of the findings in the contemporary drama classroom.

我國教育部於2002年10月24日公佈了「媒體素養教育政策白皮書」，成為亞洲第一個由政府教育主管機關主導媒體素養教育推動的國家。然而時至白皮書頒布即將屆滿四年的今天，真正落實到學校教育的作為卻十分有限。除了相關的研習訓練不足、學校行政人員與家長的質疑之外，有心嘗試媒體素養教學的教師遭遇到的最大困難，在於苦無容易上手的教材可以依循。 研究者以三年來擔任媒體素養研習講師，與參加研習的教師和尋求輔導的教學團隊互動的經驗中發現，不易在教學現場實踐媒體素養教育的原因，在於教師個人對於媒體的知識基模不足，以致於無法自行設計教學活動，而坊間雖有極少數的出版品指導媒體素養教學，但教學活動中往往需要用到大量媒體範例，必須靠教師自行蒐集，而且這些課程多採獨立教學，並非配合現有學科進行融入教學，所以會有教學時間的困難。 因此，本研究在形式上以與現有學科融入教學的方式進行媒體素養教學，翦除教學時間的疑慮，並以降低門檻為原則，發展媒體素養教育融入健康與體育學習領域第二學習階段之教學設計。更進一步藉由實驗教學的過程，觀察並分析學生在媒體素養融入健體領域的學習表現，以評估此套課程的合宜性，以及探討在國小實施媒體素養教育融入健體領域可能遭遇的困難。 根據研究結果提出以下結論： 一、健體領域的七個主題軸中，除了第三主題軸「運動技能」之外，其餘六個主題軸皆有能力指標或課文內容，能直接或間接與媒體素養的五大核心概念進行連結，兩者十分適合進行融入教學。 二、從學生的學習表現可知：切合生活經驗較能引起學生興趣、媒體素養也需要精熟學習、廣告議題是學生的最愛、缺乏實用性的內容學生反應冷淡、新聞議題最不受歡迎、學生樂於接受媒體素養教學、學生只要上課不要作業、一般學科的表現不盡然複製到實驗教學。 三、媒體素養教育融入健體領域教學的難處在於：實際進行有教學時間不足之虞、上課的視聽輔助教材仍需教學者花費心思準備、教學活動需要視聽設備協助教學、學生對健體課旣有的認知難改變、教案中部分能力指標引用牽強。 根據研究結果提出下列建議： 一、對於教育行政機關，建議：建構媒體素養之分段能力指標、以近中遠程計畫落實媒體素養教育之推動。 二、對於未來相關研究，建議：跨領域統整與重大議題連結、發展媒體近用課程、進行質量並重的教學效果研究。 / Our Ministry of Education announced “The Government’s Media Literacy White Paper” on October 24, 2002.Taiwan become the first one country who impetus the media literacy education by the government in Asian. Today, the white paper promulgates soon expires for four years, truly carries out in the school education extremely to be limited. Besides the related study training insufficiency, the school administrative personnel and guardian's question, the most major difficulty to the teacher who attempt the media literacy teaching, there is no easy seat of teaching material to be allowed to rely on. Researcher who held the post of the media literacy lecture for the past three years, discover through the interaction with the teacher who join the seminar or the teaching team who need the counseling, it’s not easily to implement media literacy in the school, lay in the teacher to be insufficient regarding the media elementary knowledge, causes to be unable independently to design the teaching activity, however in the market although had few publications to be allowed to instruct the media literacy teaching, but in the teaching activity often needed to use the massive media model, those had to collect by the teacher voluntarily, moreover most of these curricula taken the independent teaching, didn’t intergrade and coordinated with the existing curriculum, therefore could have the problem in the teaching time. Therefore, this research take the way which the curriculum intergrades with the media literacy teaching, eliminates the anxiety of teaching time, and take reduces the threshold as the principle, the development media literacy education intergrades into the second study stage design of the health and physical education. Further the affiliation by the experimental teaching process, observes and analyzes the student intergraded into health and physical education performance in the media literacy, appraised this set of curricula inappropriateness, as well as the discussion intergrades into health and physical education curriculum possible bitter experience difficulty in the elementary school implementation media literacy education. Proposes the following conclusion according to the research: 1. In the seven major subjects of the health and physical education, besides the third major subject "the movement skill", other six major subjects all has the competency standards or the text content, can be direct or indirectly carry on with the media literacy five big cores concept links, two extremely suitably carries on intergrades the study. 2. Knew from student's study performance: The case which suits the experience of life comparatively to be able to arouse the student interest, the media literacy also needs unceasingly to study, the advertisement subject is the student most loves, the deficient usable content student responded desolate, the news subject is most not welcome, the student to be glad accepts the media literacy teaching, the student so long as attend class does not want the homework, the general discipline performance not to be able completely to duplicate the experimental teaching. 3. The difficulty of media literacy education intergrades into health and physical education: Actual carried on the teaching time insufficiency, the teacher still need to take a lot effort to prepare the media supplementary teaching materials, the teaching activity needs the equipment of media assistance, the student the cognition which had regarding health and physical education is very difficult to change, some parts of the competency standards quote inappropriate. Proposes the following suggestions according to the research: 1. The suggestion of the educational administration institution: Constructs impetus partition competency standards, by the near medium and long-range plan realization media literacy education. 2. The suggestion of the relate research in the future: The cross domain conformity and the significant subject link, the development media nearly with the curriculum, carries on quality and quantity both given due importance the teaching effect research.

The aim of this diploma thesis, which is entitled "Media Education in schools - critical-analytic or production approach", is to map the current state of practice of media education in a sample of secondary schools (gymnasiums) in central Bohemia. Our goal is to provide readers with broader theoretical insight into the concept of media literacy (as a goal of any media education), to capture a brief history of development of the perspective on the role of media education, as well as to examine how media education is incorporated within the Czech system of secondary education, and also to reflect on its possible forms of implementation. Last but not least, the intent of the thesis is to describe two basic approaches to media education, both of which are directed to development of media literacy. Our research led by a combination of questionnaires and interviews with educators suppose to be used as a tool that should help us to bridge the theory with an image of factual practice. The research part primarily aims to provide insight into framework of the current practice of teaching media education in secondary schools in central Bohemia, and through interpretation of the main remarks points to (at least) basic issues which teachers of media education must deal with.