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What's art got to do with it?

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NML often gets invited to speak at conferences that are focused on topics like media education, media literacy, education technology, and curriculum development.  What excited me about the How to Stimulate Film Sense(s) conference (besides the chance to check out Dutch thrift stores) was that the organizers were drawing a direct relationship between media education and artists.  It is no easy task to map the history, norms, and practices of one discipline onto another - it's much easier to think about art and education as separate worlds whose inhabitants are motivated by different goals.

NML in Rotterdam

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I had the opportunity to travel to the Netherlands, to make two presentations about NML at the International Film Festival of Rotterdam. The festival featured a international conference on media education, called How to Stimulate Film Sense(s). The organizers, Ulrike Söbbeke and Carolien Labib were wonderful hosts, and I had a lovely time during my visit. Summaries of the talks I gave, "Exploring New Media Literacies: The Challenges and Promises of Participatory Culture" and "Parrying with Awareness: Artists in a New Media Environment" can be found here.