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6 Training and Education
6 Training and Education
Pages 155-174
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There is, nevertheless, an important role for education in enabling people to identify and break selfdestructive habits, to be more sophisticated consumers of social media, and more discerning in what they authorize technology companies to do with their data. There is evidence to suggest that ignorance of how online media work is a serious problem.
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, there is an urgent need for more explicit attention to digital media competency in the school system. Schools have already played a role in influencing young people to use electronic devices and social media.
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It is therefore necessary both to create an online environment that protects young people and social media consumers who are empowered to protect themselves. In the same way that improving health literacy can provoke healthier life choices, so can improving media literacy enable better choices online (McAnally and Hagger, 2023)
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There are ample resources that the Department of Education and state authorities could build on in encouraging digital media literacy: Canada and England have content standards and validated methods to assess media literacy in schools (Nkana, 2010)
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• Iowa Digital Literacy, a program of the Partnership for a Healthy Iowa, has an online list of resources including teaching aids, presentations, and lesson plans for teaching the harms and benefits of digital media. • The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence and Com puter Science Teachers Association have a national guideline for teaching about artificial intelligence in K to 12.
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INTEGRATING DIGITAL MEDIA COMPETENCY INTO PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION The committee recognizes that the media literacy education proposed will be most successful if teachers have a good understanding of the complicated reality of how social media work. Given that U.S.
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They can educate children in the respectful and responsible way of using social media and teach students about the appropriate levels of sharing in a public forum. Similarly, they are crucial in preventing cyberbullying and the other forms of harassment by protecting victims and teaching students how to deal with those situations (Guarini et al., 2019)
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Recommendation 6-2: The Council for the Accreditation of Educa tor Preparation should set requirements for digital media literacy education for student teachers and as part of ongoing professional development for veteran teachers. Teacher training interventions should be designed to allow for rigorous evaluation to measure their effectiveness.
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. Questions related to corporate control of online speech, for example, need to be examined from both the one-to-many model familiar to print and broadcast media as well as the participatory many-to-many model of social media (Santo, 2013)
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For this reason, both the proposed teacher training and the digital media literacy education in grades K through 12 would be best accompanied by marshalling resources to support the program. The Title I-A program of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA)
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Perhaps for this reason digital literacy interventions are not usually designed with an eye to rigorous impact evaluation, leaving any estimate of the training's effectiveness subject to confounding. The push for a national standard for media literacy education and related teacher training programs provides the opportunity to improve the understanding of what makes some programs successful and some failures.
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. A recent American Psychological Association report echoed similar concerns, calling for routine screening for problematic social media use (APA, 2023)
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In the same way that students in grades kindergarten through 12 need knowledgeable teachers if they are to achieve mastery of digital media, so do patients need providers who are in a position to counsel them on social media use and spot potential warning signs. Recommendation 6-3: The Liaison Committee on Medical Educa tion, the Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing, the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education, and the Council on Social Work Education should incorporate training on the multiple effects of social media on children's and adolescents' well-being into professional education.
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American Psychological Association. https://www.apa.org/topics/social media-internet/health-advisory-adolescent-social-media-use (accessed September 19, 2023)
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2020. Social media, teenagers, and the school context: A scoping review of research in education and related fields.
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2020. Social media: Anticipatory guidance.
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2014. Developing social media literacy: How children learn to interpret risky opportunities on social network sites.
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2022. HHS announces award of $2 million grant to the American Academy of Pediatrics to establish National Center of Excellence on Social Media and Mental Wellness.
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n.d. Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)
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