We cherish creativity in teaching and learning and have been thinking about it a lot since ChatGPT rolled out nearly four years ago. As media educators teaching at the intersection of communications, technology, and society, we necessarily paid attention to the buzz surrounding artificial intelligence. Yet, as imaginative makers who believe passionately in the magic of human … [Read more...] about An Experience of Being Alive: Media Literacy, Imagination, and Creative Learning
Talking with Fish: An Arts-based Retrospective of Media Literacy in Teacher Identity and Pedagogy
Abstract “We don't know who discovered water, but we know it wasn't a fish.” This adage, long attributed to media scholar Marshall McLuhan, invites us to consider worlds shaped by media as invisible environments. Fully immersed from dawn to dusk, we may struggle to identify or clarify the boundaries between the physical and the digital. In media literacy, we employ McLuhan's … [Read more...] about Talking with Fish: An Arts-based Retrospective of Media Literacy in Teacher Identity and Pedagogy
Beginnings…Connections…Intersections: A Conversation with our Guest Editors
Antonio Lopez, Theresa Redmond and Jeff Share answer questions from Karen Ambrosh and Marieli Rowe How did your interest in Ecomedia Literacy evolve? Jeff: I have always been passionate about the environment and environmentalism, from annual backpacking in the Sierras to photographing for the TreePeople, a local environmental organization. However, it was not … [Read more...] about Beginnings…Connections…Intersections: A Conversation with our Guest Editors
The Journal of Sustainability Education Editorial Overview
Foreword from JSE Editor-in-Chief, Clare Hintz: The Journal of Sustainability Education marks its tenth anniversary year with an issue on Water Literacy (published in March) and this issue, Ecomedia Literacy. From a dream of several Ph.D. students at Prescott College (U.S.), we have come a long way to an internationally known, peer-reviewed journal, publishing two to … [Read more...] about The Journal of Sustainability Education Editorial Overview
