Browsing by Subject "Mediakasvatus"
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(2023)In a mediated society, the importance of media education is emphasised, and it is important that media education and news are processed with children and young people in schools. News aimed at children offer teachers a good way to discuss about current affairs with children, as well as provide media education. This study examines how news and current topics are handled in primary schools and utilized as part of teaching. The study also examines the importance of news aimed at children for teachers and pupils. The subject of the study is Helsingin Sanomat’s Children's News, a news media aimed at children in Helsingin Sanomat. Children's news is commonly utilized in schools, but there is no information on how Children’s news is used in schools. In addition, research on the educational use of news and news for children is largely focused on international research, so the aim of this study is also to produce research information on the topic specifically in the Finnish context. This study is a qualitative case study that examined Children's news in educational use and also teachers' and pupils’ experiences on educational use of and more generally on Children's news. The data of this study consisted of semi-structured themed interviews with primary school teachers and of a teaching experiment which was conducted on the basis of the interviews. The data in the experiment was collected from primary school pupils using a questionnaire and semi-structured themed interviews. The data was collected in two phases in 2021 and 2022. The method of analysis for both data sets was qualitative content analysis. Based on this study, Children's news was utilized in teaching weekly and specifically as part of the actual teaching. The Children's news broadcast, which most of the pupils also mentioned that they liked, was exploited the most in the teaching. Children's news was used most frequently in Finnish language and literature lessons, but also, for example, as part of the work on transversal competence skills such as learning skills. Educational situations with Children’s news were not usually very planned and the planning appeared particularly as checking the news topics beforehand as well as by the acquisition of any additional information. The main methods of teaching with Children's News were discussions and written methods of working. Interviews with teachers also highlighted the importance of handling news in teaching, as well as the importance of news aimed specifically to children. Pupils also felt that following the news was a positive thing and being informed about world events was important. The results show that Children's News offers opportunities for a wide range of uses in primary school education, including media education, integrative instruction and as part of the work on transversal competence skills. I hope that this study will provide examples and perspectives on educational use of news and media education and encourages to use of the news as part of teaching.
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(2021)Children in primary school age already use the internet and social media, but they are miss-ing media literacy skills. Children may also be exposed to several different risks while using the internet. Therefore, while social media is playing a more significant role also in children's lives it would be important that there would be accurate and truthful information available for them too. Children value news but they think news organizations don’t understand the lives of young people and don’t cover the issues that matter to them. Yle Mix by Finnish Broadcasting Company (Yle) tries to answer this need by producing news journal-ism for children about current topics and the matters of the lives of the children. After all, the news has a great influence on our ideas of the world and the news produced for children in-creases their inclusion in society. Nevertheless, there’s no previous research done from the content of Yle Mix news. Therefore, the aim of this study is to examine Yle Mix as a news genre and study media education discourses produced in the analysed news videos. In this study three different Yle Mix news videos related to issues of media education were analysed. All three news videos were available on the internet. News videos were studied as multisemiotic texts where the combination of the text, picture and audio together con-structs the meaning of the news video. The genre of Yle Mix news was studied, and the da-ta were analysed with discourse analysis in order to present the media education discours-es produced in the news videos. The results of this the study shows that the Yle Mix news differ from the genre of televised news but there are also similarities between them. In the data there were three main media education discourses presented: risks of children's media usage, teaching of media skills and normalizing the children's media usage. According to the analysis the media education of the news videos was presented trough the potential risks of children’s media usage, but this point of view was also challenged in the data. However, the risk discourse and teach-ing discourse were hegemonic while discourse that emphasised children's inclusion and rep-resented children's media usage as normal were subordinate to the previous.
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