Document ActionsHow can media construct open spaces for learning?
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2008-07-02 13:04
This session is lead by Kym Stewart and Roman Onufrijchuk and asks the question: "How can we help students gain intellectual tools for critical assessment of the images, messages, practices, media institutions and technologies making up our information-dense and time-urgent world?" About this session:This session will explore this question by examining the unique journeys taken by two researchers/educators. Kym has focused on creating media education lessons using Imaginative Education for elementary classrooms, focusing exclusively on oral-language development through the disruption of students' everyday understanding of media. Roman also focuses on the experimental use of multi-media learning, although without TV and film, and will report on his adventures with undergrad classes which using Internet, orality, chirography and print as means and methods for teaching & learning Beware - this file is over 200megs in size! Also, please remember that this content is copyright protected, so if you want to use parts or all of it, please do email us at ierg-ed@sfu.ca About Kym:
Kym is a PhD student in the Faculty of Education with a background in media studies. Her previous research included examining the roles of various media in contemporary families, the impacts of television and advertising on the children's imaginative play and sedentary lifestyles. This research was complemented by a yearlong study in South Korea, where she surveyed the impact of new media on families. Kym‚s current work focuses on the use of About Roman:
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Roman Onufrijchuk, PhD, is a senior lecturer with Simon Fraser University's School of Communication, where he has taught as a sessional instructor and then a university research associate since 1983. Roman's professional life has been divided between teaching and public broadcasting and media. Most recently director of TV programming at the Knowledge Network, Roman has variously been an radio and TV announcer, producer, as well chairman of the Board of Directors, Pacific Cinematheque Pacifique. In addition to teaching at the School of Communication, SFU, he also teaches at the Centre for Canadian Studies and has taught in Kiev, at The University of the Kiev Mohyla Academy and been supervisor of Media Arts, Dubai Women's College in Dubai, UAE.