TY - JOUR
T1 - Making news today
T2 - A tool for adoption of ethics principles using technology-supported television journalism
AU - Blackall, David
AU - Lockyer, Lori
AU - Harper, Barry M.
PY - 2011/9
Y1 - 2011/9
N2 - There are movements internationally towards curricula that incorporate values and citizenship education. In Australia, this movement has been illustrated with the adoption of a national curriculum in values education. This has arisen from the perceived need for citizens to hold values around the rights and responsibilities of functioning within a democracy. The Making News Today programme has been designed to develop a range of literacies enabling learners, for example, to read the media beyond the interests of the elite. The programme incorporates a journalistic process for television news production for middle school students using laptop and handheld video technologies, with embedded ethics and values education. The article reports on an analysis of the implementation of this programme with middle school students in Australia with reference to student adoption of ethical stances in the journalistic process and the implications for the use of this project in developing ethics, values and citizenship as part of the curriculum process.
AB - There are movements internationally towards curricula that incorporate values and citizenship education. In Australia, this movement has been illustrated with the adoption of a national curriculum in values education. This has arisen from the perceived need for citizens to hold values around the rights and responsibilities of functioning within a democracy. The Making News Today programme has been designed to develop a range of literacies enabling learners, for example, to read the media beyond the interests of the elite. The programme incorporates a journalistic process for television news production for middle school students using laptop and handheld video technologies, with embedded ethics and values education. The article reports on an analysis of the implementation of this programme with middle school students in Australia with reference to student adoption of ethical stances in the journalistic process and the implications for the use of this project in developing ethics, values and citizenship as part of the curriculum process.
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U2 - 10.1080/17439884.2010.521508
DO - 10.1080/17439884.2010.521508
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:79960639985
SN - 1743-9884
VL - 36
SP - 277
EP - 294
JO - Learning, Media and Technology
JF - Learning, Media and Technology
IS - 3
ER -