(Photo from the conference. Venue was Cinema House. The hall ceiling was amazing.)
I was invited to give a keynote in Practical Media Literacy Education Conference in Kiev, Ukraine. My keynote (titled Media Education in Finland) slides are available here:
http://bit.ly/me_in_finland
The conference has been very thought provoking. There are two thoughts that have strike me during my trip and which I want to share.
First, the aim of media education is not only in the individual level i.e. in literacy, competence, etc. It concerns also the level of society i.e. media culture. Hence each of us making better media culture is an informal mode of media education.
Second, media literacy is not a list of areas to be mastered. It is a rhizome of learnings within lived experiences with and through media. With support, i.e. media education, individual slowly learns to reflect on these experiences and learnings, and that way the rhizome is revealed.
“медіаосвіта”