The Media & Learning Association (MLA) announces a webinar series titled Wednesday Webinars on Teacher Education in Digital & Media Literacy in Europe.
Associate Professor Eleni Kyza will participate in the first webinar, which will take place on Wednesday, 23/2/2022 from 14:00-15:15 CET. The webinar is titled “Teacher Education in Digital & Media Literacy – the challenges in Initial Teacher Education”. You can register for free here: https://media-and-learning.eu/event/teacher-education-digital-and-media-literacy-the-challenges-in-initial-teacher-education/
Webinar description
Teacher training colleges all over Europe are facing an increasing demand to ensure they put in places digital and media literacy programmes for their student teachers. This comes on top of the many demands they already face in preparing teachers for the ever-changing educational system. During this webinar we will be hearing from a variety of researchers and teacher educators about their views and experiences of tackling this challenge. Should digital and media literacy be part of the formal programme in all teacher training colleges? what are the best ways to introduce and evaluate such programmes? Who should be responsible for introducing such programmes and then evaluating their success.
Speakers will include:
- Julian Mc Dougall, Professor in Media and Education , Centre for Excellence in Media Practice, University of Bournemouth, UK, A Theory of Change for Media Literacy.
- Alexandre Le Voci Sayad, Director of ZeitGeist, Brazil, International co-chairman of UNESCO MIL Alliance and board member of the International Council for Media Literacy, The medium is still the message: innovating in media education training.
- Lina Pranaityte-Wergin, Research associate, Heidelberg School of Education and scientific coordinator in the project ‘Critical Media Literacy’, Heidelberg University, Germany, Critical Media Literacy: A Challenge for Teacher Education and Beyond.
- Eleni A. Kyza, Associate professor in Information Society, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus
