Media Educator in Working Life (5cr)

Objective

After completing the course the student:
- knows the working field of media educators in Finland and internationally
- is able to define the knowledge, skills and competences required from media education professionals
- is able to describe and reflect one’s own professional knowledge, skills and competences and recognizes one’s own development needs as a media education professional
- is able to plan and orientate one’s own studies towards the needs of working-life, in order to promote his/her employability together with entrepreneurial skills

Content

Students familiarize with the working field of media educators and with the tasks and roles of media educators through lectures, readings, visits on work places and interviews and meetings with media educators. Students familiarize and reflect their own current knowledge, skills and competences in regard to the needs of working life.

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

5-1/ fail

Materials

More literature information and extra material
Finnish Media Education. Promoting Media and Information Literacy in Finland. KAVI � the Finnish Media Education Authorityhttps://kavi.fi/sites/default/files/documents/mil_in_finland.pdfMedia & Information Literacy Clearinghouse website: http://milunesco.unaoc.org/

Execution methods

20 hours of lectures, study visits and students� presentations. Independent studies/ pair works.

Accomplishment methods

Interviews with media educators and presentations. Reflections on the visits, one’s own skills and competences, and a personal development plan in the form of learning diary.