International Council for Media Literacy

Bridging Academia to Action

International Council for Media Literacy
Bridging Academia to Action

Author Profile: Géraldine Wuyckens

  • Géraldine Wuyckens
    Teaching Assistant and PhD Student
    UCLouvain (Belgium)
    Géraldine Wuyckens is a teaching assistant and a PhD student in information and communication sciences at UCLouvain (Belgium). Her doctoral project consists in developing a critical inquiry method in media education, that is, a method that encourages pupils to ask relevant questions about digital media and technology.

Using Design Fiction to Develop Pupils’ Critical Inquiry Competence

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Abstract This article presents a critical inquiry method based on the practice of design fiction. Design fiction is a speculative design practice that consists in imagining and prototyping fictional technologies. The critical inquiry method takes the form of an educational program divided into several stages of design, analysis and discussion. Based on inquiry-based learning … [Read more...] about Using Design Fiction to Develop Pupils’ Critical Inquiry Competence

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