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What is PLAY?Project Literacy Among Youth (PLAY) is
a not-for-profit project that began in 1999 by Vanessa Domine during
her dual stint as a media and technology consultant for the Media
Workshop New York • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •What is Media Literacy?Media literacy is the ability to access, analyze, evaluate, produce and communicate across a variety of media forms. Media education refers to the process of teaching media literacy. In the United States alone, there exists many different perspectives on how to media educate youth, but not all of them agree on what extent youth audiences are active participants. PLAY moves beyond a passive approach to media and youth. For the purposes of this project, there are five governing principles of media literacy. [learn more] • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •The Marriage of Media and TechnologyAs educators we must face any and all residual fears about the digital world—where files corrupt, computers crash, and Windows collapse. The bottom line is that, while the majority of young people may be more technologically proficient than many adults, they crave the leadership and example of adults in their lives. To provide that leadership and support to young people, educators must be more proficient, more creative, and more media literate in our uses of communications technologies than we currently are. [read more] • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
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Students' summer reading reports go online in real time (06/15/09) Teachers find blogs useful to encourage sharing ideas about books. For hundreds of students in Shelby County (TN) it means no more summer reading reports due the first week of school. No quizzes, no worksheets, no timed essay tests. Instead, they are posting in blogs, combing newspapers and YouTube for modern examples of the timeless conflicts, or shooting their own videos. [read more]• • • • • • • • • • • • •Digital Youth Portait: Olivia Without the means or easy access to the newest high tech tools, this resourceful and strong-willed young woman considers technology her lifeline (Edutopia). [learn more]
• • • • • • • • • • • • •New
release: Rethinking
Technology in Schools: A Primer (Peter Lang, 2008; $18.95):
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by day and an NYU doctoral student by night. She named her work
Project Literacy Among Youth (PLAY) to encapsulate the creative
yet critical ways in which young people can and do use a variety
of media technologies. A decade later, the scholarship, teaching
and service that have emerged from this project can be traced back
to their roots in the daily lives of real educators in New York
City. The project is currently housed in the College of Education
and Human Services at Montclair State University in northern New
Jersey.
The
primer offers educators at all levels a three-dimensional map
for exploring philosophical, pedagogical, and practical uses of
technology to serve rather than subvert the public purposes of
education in a democracy.
