Different Countries Similar Issues: Media Binds or Blinds?

• In Event: Marriott Roundtable Session 17
  In Roundtable Session: Teaching and Learning

Abstract

To develop culturally and linguistically responsive pedagogy, teacher candidates investigated teaching models through the lens of semiotics and media literacy in global education context. For their curriculum projects, the participants in the US, Azerbaijan, and Turkmenistan deconstructed the national and international curriculum and standards; interviewed students and educators, and documented their stories to articulate the realities of conditions in schools through their research, analysis, and dialogue. Through the rediscovery process, fourteen teacher candidates explored and designed strategies, curricula, and programs for improving student outcomes, gained alternative point of view on the role of media literacy education and renewed interest and commitment to media education, and integrated multiple literacies as a means of further developing P12 students’ global competencies and 21st-century skills.

Author

• Melda N Yildiz, New York Institute of Technology