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FROM THE EDITORS Finding Common Ground… Marieli Rowe Karen Ambrosh Reform in an institution as large as education moves at a snail’s pace. People are often entrenched in comfortable and traditional practices, and there is value in many of these tried and true ways but we are today faced with the amazing challenges of the 21st century. Thus, while embracing new education initiatives, it is crucial to question, evaluate, and preserve the deep values that remain constant in learning theory. This issue of our Journal looks at media literacy under the lens of today’s reforms, in particular the complicated, multifaceted, and controversial attempts to establish a nationwide common core of basic standards in education, in the hope that this will improve America’s ranking in the world. The broad question is—How do we approach education in this new age? Is there a single way? Is there a global goal? Indeed, is there a “common core of standards” that can be measured, assessed, and tested successfully for each individual student? One of the major developments in this cyber age is that it can champion active participation, creativity, and individuality. New research on the developing brain of children shows that the brain has infinitely more possibilities to learn in multiple ways under multiple environmental conditions than we had ever thought before. And yet, the trend in institutions such as education appears to be to create a universal, common list of skills that can be reduced to numbers and checklists, applicable to one and all. Will we ever be able to find common ground? As guest editor of this issue, Frank Baker has based much of his research in following national trends in educational standards. We are grateful for his leadership in pulling together a stellar, diverse list of authors for this complex, contemporary top- 2 THE JOURNAL OF <strong>MEDIA</strong> <strong>LITERACY</strong>
ic. This group includes intellectuals, practitioners, and critics who provide comparisons of pedagogy, theories and models of learning, and classroom examples. There are teachers working to keep Media Literacy and Media Arts electives alive within the Common Core environment. Others are making Common Core and Media Literacy connections to Social Studies, Library Science, News and Film Studies, Visual and Media Design, and the broader issues of Globalization and Privacy. These authors represent the work that all of us in the field of Media Literacy champion, educating today’s youth who are swimming in the media-saturated culture of the 21st century, and yet doing so within the institutional guidelines of the Common Core State Standards. Can we fashion a blueprint of what Martin Rayala calls for in his article—a learning theory that is “complex, but not complicated—simple, but not simplistic”? We are all looking for that one unifying synthesis to the many conflicting, competing concepts and approaches, but just as Einstein thought he could find a unifying formula for the complexities of the universe, we are still searching… To begin, let us continue this conversation. In honor of Media Literacy Week, a growing tradition in November, we invite you to arrange your own launch party or media cafe to discuss the articles in this journal and explore the topic further, with the hopes of finding Common Ground. Marieli Rowe JML EDITOR Karen Ambrosh NTC PRESIDENT COMING NEXT SPRING In Spring 2016, The Journal of Media Literacy will collaborate with Comunicar on a joint issue about media literacy curriculum in the classroom, co-edited by Dr. Ignacio Aguaded and Dr. Belinha De Abreu. The issue will be published in both English and Spanish. We are excited to work on this new venture across the oceans, reaching the Hispanic and English speaking world. 2015 • VOLUME 62, NUMBERS 3 & 4 3
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