Class Media and Education: Educational Practices and Information and Communication Technologies

Media and Education. Conceptualizations of Literacy at the intersection of academic research and an economy based on Information and Communication Technologies (ICT).

Media literacy and media education. Conceptualizations.
Game-based learning. Case of co-creation with students.
Media creation in the context of the Visual Arts curriculum, from a student-centered perspective, in which the student is the active agent of their learning and within the framework of an action research project.

1. Communication and the sharing of meanings in a highly mediated world requires multiple literacies, often referred to as media literacy, information literacy, visual literacy, multimodal literacy or digital literacy.
2. Game-based learning

1. Games as a motivating factor

2. Games as active learning environments

3. The creation of games by students, enhancing multiple literacies; creating a game prototype as part of a playful learning framework.

In this UC, students use digital media and, in particular, the process of game design and prototyping as a collaborative and transient process: the projects will be continued by their "future/current students" within the scope of the subjects they teach or will teach in the future. This methodology requires students to leave their "comfort" zone, but with proper monitoring, students realize that the important thing is the process. What is innovative about this methodology (in quotes) is that it seeks to contribute to transdisciplinarity, a fundamental competence in the 21st century.

• Costa, C., Tyner, K., Henriques. S., & Sousa, C. (2018). Game Creation in Youth Media and Information Literacy Education. International Journal of Game-Based Learning, 8(2), 1-13. DOI: 10.4018/IJGBL.2018040101

• Costa, C. Car, V., Papadimitriou, S., (2017). Good Practices and Emerging Trends. In Frau-Meigs, D., Flores, J., Velez, I., Public policies in media and information literacy in Europe: Cross-Country Comparisons. Routledge. ISBN: 9781138644373

  https://www.routledge.com/Public-Policies-in-Media-and-Information-Literacy-in-Europe-Cross-Country/Frau-Meigs-Velez-Michel/p/book/9781138644373

• Gee, J. (2008). Learning and Games. In: K. Salen (Ed.) The Ecology of Games: Connecting Youth, Games, and Learning, 1st ed. Cambridge: The MIT Press.