Media education in formal education

My Media Playground –seminar 14.-15.2.2013 Tampere

PhD Minna Riikka Järvinen

Kerhokeskus

SUHO ry

PATHWAY TO MEDIA SKILLS AND COMPETENCES, 2011

Critical thinkingCooperation

Social interaction

Abilities to gather, evaluate and controlknowledge

Competences to use technologySelf-consciousness, courage to participate

Creative and aesthetic skills

Communication skills

Critical interpretation skills

Safety skills

CREATIVE AND AESTHETIC SKILLS

COMMUNICATION SKILLS

CRITICAL INTERPRETATION

SKILLSSAFETY SKILLS

1st & 2nd GRADE

(age 7-8)

To make own stories to tell and the ability to understand the structure of the plotline. To reflect own experiences and

feelings to a character in a story

Identification and acting a role with the help of media

Empathy and emotions deliberated

To separate fact from fiction and advertisements from

other content

The use of media with the support of an adult. To

handle difficult situations. Knowledge of the age rating

of media content

3rd & 4th GRADE

(age 9-10)

To convey emotions with verbal, visual and musical impulse.

Media as a source of pleasure and joy

To understand different points of view presented by the media, and to verbally

keep one's side. Conversation skills

Knowledge of genres and narrative means. To

understand that media contents are constructions

Safe use of internet, information security and to

guard one's privacy

5th & 6th GRADE(age 11-

12)

To discern one’s own media needs and to find one’s own

media taste

Learning together and peer training. Knowledge of

freedom of speech and to understand the difference

between the private and the public sector

Knowledge of media discourses and structures.

Ability to analyse and manage information

To take others into consideration and to behave

politely on the internet

7th & 8th GRADE(age 13-

14)

Ethical reflection and to analyse messages. To mirror values and

attitudes presented in themedia

To develop one's identity with the help of media. Role play and playing by relating

to different experiences

To question messages and analyse media stereotypes

To understand that media laws are based on the

user's rights and obligations

9th GRADE(age 15-

16)

To express one’s personality and style and create different kinds

of media environments. Knowledge of the copyright

To participate in and influence on civic culture and

civic society

To relate media content to former data structures.

Awareness of the contents’ commercial, political and

ideological aims

Diverse, legal and rule abiding use of media content and services

To find self-expression and using one's own voice

To participate through interaction and own activity

Critical and cultural awareness

Safe, adequate and contextual use of media

”MEDIA CONTAINS THE WORLD”

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