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March 2023

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March 2023

Featured Articles

How will avatar students and virtual twins learn in classrooms of the future?

by Zac Woolfitt, Inholland University, The Netherlands. Technology developments create new opportunities for teaching and learning in technology-rich learning spaces. Post pandemic, we returned to learning and teaching…

6 March 2023

10 min read

Media Literacy

The Cold Reality of Media Literacy in Iceland

by Skúli Bragi Geirdal, Media Commission, Iceland. I present Iceland, the best country in the world… per capita. The land of ice and fire. Glaciers and volcanoes. A land of immense natural beauty. Northern lights…

2 March 2023

5 min read

AV Technologies Higher Education

Video still at the forefront of Higher Education according to 2023 report

by Jasmine Mazaudier, Director of Content Marketing and Communications, Panopto. Panopto recently partnered with Streaming Media to survey global higher education leaders across three groups – academic technologists…

27 February 2023

3 min read

Media Literacy

SQUARE educational workshops to foster critical thinking and combat misinformation among youth

by Alice Bougnères, SQUARE, France. Only 10% of French youth can distinguish a fact from an opinion. The nation’s low level of literacy combined with a widespread anti-elite mentality and a growing identity-based…

21 February 2023

3 min read

Primary & Secondary Education

Good practice video repository for teachers and school leaders in Ireland

by Madeleine Murray, PDST Technology in Education, Ireland. As the Irish Ministry of Education’s agency for digital learning in primary and post primary schools, PDST Technology in Education’s remit is supporting the…

23 February 2023

4 min read

Media Literacy

GILM – Promoting media education and media literacy in Portugal

by Fernanda Bonacho, Escola Superior de Comunicação Social, Portugal. GILM – Informal Group on Media Literacy is a Portuguese network, created in 2009, whose main aim is to promote media education and to emphasise the…

10 February 2023

6 min read

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AV Technologies Higher Education

Meeting the challenge of managing large amounts of multimedia storage in post-Covid times

by Davide Ferro and Marco Toffanin, University of Padova, Italy. Managing large quantities of multimedia storage in the cloud is a significant issue inthe post-pandemic era. In recent years, teachers, staff and students…

2 March 2023

4 min read

Media Literacy

Making sense of Media Literacy actions – The Drog Intervention Model (DIM)

by Ruurd Oosterwoud, DROG, The Netherlands. Disinformation is constantly changing. Disinformation adapts, evolves, and is based on new premises. Those tackling disinformation respond to this. The result has been the…

2 March 2023

5 min read

Media Literacy

Ofcom’s Toolkit for Evaluating Media Literacy Interventions

by Kate Morris, Ofcom, UK. What is evaluation, and why should charities and other organisations running projects focused on media literacy, care about it? This question lies at the heart of the Evaluation Toolkit, the…

3 March 2023

4 min read

Artificial Intelligence Higher Education Primary & Secondary Education

AI and data use in education: the European Commission’s ethical guidelines

by Maria Gkountouma, European Commission. Nowadays, Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems have become part of our everyday lives. But, their rapid development and the use of associated data has highlighted tensions in…

2 March 2023

4 min read

Media Literacy

Open the Box empowering a new generation of Italian teachers

by Nicola Bruno, Open the Box, Dataninja & University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy. How to select a trustworthy source to be included in an essay? How to moderate a debate in the classroom about a conspiracy…

3 March 2023

5 min read

News

Higher Education Primary & Secondary Education

MEDEA Awards, submit your entry before 17 March!

The Media & Learning Association’s annual competition to reward best use of media to support education at all levels is still open for entries! In 2023, we are looking for entries which demonstrate…

23 February 2023

1 min read

Media Literacy

Despite pledges, online platforms are failing in the fight against disinformation

The EDMO Executive Board has released a statement on the reports of the signatories of the Strengthened Code of Practice on Disinformation in which they call for more accuracy, clarity and transparency in the reporting…

4 March 2023

1 min read

Higher Education Primary & Secondary Education

Report on 5th European Education Summit available

The 5th European Education Summit put youth and education centre stage, giving our “bright young minds” the opportunity to make their voice heard on the future of education and training in Europe. It ran on 1 December…

22 February 2023

1 min read

AV Technologies Higher Education

Discover how to manage large quantities of video resources on 30 March

The Media & Learning seminar entitled “How to manage, archive, re-use large quantities of video resources” will take place from 14:00 – 15:30 CET on Thursday, 30 March. During this seminar we will hear from…

6 March 2023

1 min read

AR & VR

106+ educational institutions get started on Immersive Soft Skills Grant

A new grant-funded programme began two weeks ago with over 106 colleges and universities from across the globe attending the introduction in London, hosted by Bodyswaps with attending guests from Meta. The programme…

4 March 2023

2 min read

Media Literacy

EDMO Fact-Checking report: Pandemic, war and more: 18 months of disinformation

EDMO has just published a new report: Pandemic, war and more: 18 months of disinformation providing an overview of the main disinformation topics, narratives and most viral false news detected by the EDMO…

21 February 2023

2 min read

AV Technologies Higher Education

Welcome to our new members from France, Norway and Scotland, UK

We are very happy to welcome 3 new members to the Media & Learning Association this month. The first member to join us is the University of Oslo, Norway. Their membership is led by LINK, the Centre for Learning…

6 March 2023

2 min read

AR & VR

Call for papers for Special issue on Extended Realities (XR) for Learning

The technologies Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR), now often referred together as Extended Realities (XR), have been used in education for some time for applications such as training ship’s captains on…

4 March 2023

1 min read

AV Technologies

ALL DIGITAL Weeks 2023 : Enhance your digital skills!

ALL DIGITAL Weeks run this year from 17 April until 7 May and this digital inclusion and empowerment campaign will involve centres, libraries, community centres, schools and other venues across Europe. This will be the…

6 March 2023

1 min read

AR & VR

ALT Group looking for Case Studies on use of immersive technologies

The ALT Imm Tech SIG is a community of practitioners from across the UK and beyond, who are passionate about the use of Immersive technology (XR/VR/AR) to enhance the student experience. Incorporating immersive…

6 March 2023

1 min read

Tips and Reviews

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AV Technologies

WindRemover: the name says it all

6 March 2023

1 min read

Media Literacy

Monthly fact-checking briefs

4 March 2023

1 min read

AV Technologies

Get inspired with Frame Set

6 March 2023

2 min read

Events and Competitions

Higher Education Lifelong Learning

European Teacher Education Network (ETEN) conference, Nürnberg, 13–15 April 2023

The conference title “Teacher Education – Connecting Glocal*” refers to the closely interconnected global and local dimensions in teacher education that have become even more obvious with respect to the…

23 February 2023

1 min read

Higher Education Primary & Secondary Education

EdReNe seminar 26-27 April 2023, Munich and call for submissions

The Educational Repository Network (EdReNe) provides opportunities to share practice across Europe. The objective of EdReNe meetings is to nurture forums for the exchange of expertise and best practices in managing…

23 February 2023

2 min read

Higher Education

EDULEARN, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, 3-5 July

EDUEARN23, the 15th annual International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies will take place again in Palma de Mallorca, Spain on 3-5 July. The call for abstracts is now open and you can find out more…

22 February 2023

1 min read

Artificial Intelligence Higher Education Media Literacy

NordMedia 2023 Conference, Bergen, Norway 16-18 August

Technological Takeover? Social and Cultural Implications – promises and pitfalls At Nordmedia 2023 participants will discuss both historical and future oriented perspectives of technological takeover. The conference…

10 February 2023

1 min read

Higher Education

I-HE2023, Istanbul, 4-6 October

EADTU and Anadolu University have announced the dates and location for this year’s Innovating Higher Education conference (I-HE2023) conference. The event will be hosted by Anadolu University in Istanbul, from 04…

4 March 2023

1 min read

Lifelong Learning Primary & Secondary Education

Connected Learning Summit, Online 26-28 October

The call for proposals for the 2023 Connected Learning Summit (CLS) is now open. This online conference was first convened in 2018 with the mission to fuel a growing movement of innovators harnessing the power of…

20 February 2023

1 min read

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