The European Journalism Centre is organising a series of innovation conferences with international partners. We are doing this because our long-term goal is to understand the media and education landscape and, in turn, help policy makers to prepare for and tackle important issues. The first conference focused on the European Institute of Technology; this second conference gives the floor to youth and schools, thus combining top-down and bottom-up approaches. For each, we are exploring the role of the media as a positive force for empowerment and change.
This time we dived into the theme of Innovation in Youth Media and Next Generation Classroom. The two-day event in Maastricht gathered media experts, academics, scientists and researchers to discuss the issues affecting the innovation ecosystem as it pertains to education.
On the first day together explored how basic information, networks, entertainment, user-generated content and classic content can be combined to create new and significant approaches to education. We featured speakers working on the forefront of the youth issue, including representatives from the University of Southern California, The World Association of Newspapers, Futurelab, The Nielsen Company, YoungWorks and other delegates from the press and academia doing youth-related research.
On the second day we looked into novel teaching practices with Richard Gerver, one of the most inspirational teachers of his generation; Anne Balsamo, Professor at USC and the Director of the Amsterdam based Creative Learning Lab.
Our speakers line-up:
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… is currently a Professor of Interactive Media in the School of Cinematic Arts, and of Communications in the Annenberg School of Communications. Until 2007 she served as the Director of the Institute for Multimedia Literacy. She co-founded Onomy Labs, Inc. a Silicon Valley technology design and fabrication company that builds cultural technologies. Previously she was a member of RED, a collaborative research group at Xerox PARC who created experimental reading devices and new media genres.
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... is Young Reader Programmes Coordinator at WAN. She helps organize all aspects of the global Newspapers in Education Development Project supported by Norske Skog. Her work on young reader issues, which includes helping to facilitate teacher workshops and strategy sessions with newspaper professionals as well as coordinating conference logistics and field missions, have taken her to dozens of countries. An alumna of Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, Cherfils is a freelance journalist who worked previously as a reporter and editor for The Associated Press in Miami and New York.
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… is responsible for integrated thought leadership and strategic communications at The Nielsen Company, the world’s leading market research firm and is author of numerous Nielsen studies on media use. Prior to joining The Nielsen Company, Nicholas worked in strategic research and marketing for several leading television networks in the U.S.
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…is a former National Teaching Award winner. He has been described as one of the most innovative and inspirational school leaders of our time. He has worked with various government agencies in the UK and abroad offering consultancy on developing creative approaches to the curriculum that will be fit for purpose in the 21. century. He is an adviser to the DCSF, the QCA and the Government on many areas of education policy, mostly in defining school change for the future.
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… is a program officer of Youth Media and the editor of Youth Media Reporter, the professional journal serving educators, practitioners and academics in the youth media field, at the Academy for Educational Development. Ingrid recently led a National Youth Media Summit to engage 45 youth media stakeholders in field-and capacity-building. In addition, Dahl teaches workshops and speaks on women's leadership, media literacy, and social/gendered change.
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Jeanne-Emmanuelle Hutin-Gapsys… is an editorial writer for Ouest France, France's largest newspaper, as well as director of the newspaper's efforts directed at the young. In 2008, she was vice president of the presidential press commission dealing with possible youth strategies for the French press as a whole. She is also affiliated with the Ouest France Solidarity Association.
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... is a freelance media consultant and analyst specialising in television and new media management. He worked as a programme planner for a German TV station and helped launch and operate TV channels and works for diverse media sector clients, among them the EJC. He teaches media economy, technology and content development at several universities.
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… coordinates YoungWorks’ Research and trend team. In previous jobs Judith worked as a Brand Research Manager for MTV Networks and as a Program Officer Research and Consultancy for Cultuurnetwerk Nederland, a centre of cultural education. Being a sociologist by origin Judith is eager in combining information from all kinds of sources with her knowledge of youngsters and major trends. Her motto: “If everything is under control, you’re going to slow.”
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… is special projects editor at Gazeta Wyborcza, Poland's largest quality daily newspaper. He develops and runs multimedia projects that involve editorial, marketing and research teams and was the originator of many of Gazeta's successful supplements, collections, promotional and advertising campaigns. He is the Polish director of the International Newspaper Marketing Association. The paper was named World Young Reader Newspaper of the Year in 2008 and he has since joined the Prize jury.
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... is Director of the European Journalism Centre. He has worked in German public and private broadcasting as a reporter and producer (ARD, RTL-Group) as well as in journalism education. Before joining the EJC he was the head of school for digital television at the University of Applied Sciences in Salzburg/ Austria.
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… is responsible for the operational and business planning activities of Futurelab. He plays a major part in setting the organisation's strategy, developing its business plan and monitoring Futurelab's progress against its aims. Before Futurelab Steve worked on fundraising and business development for the At-Bristol science centre. He has been with Futurelab since its launch and deputises for the Chief Executive in his absence.
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… is director of the Creative Learning Lab, the education department of the Dutch media Lab Waag Society. Together with his team, he works on various themes that focus on creative use of technology for education, like collaborative creation, location based learning, playful learning, personal fabrication and media literacy. Henk has a background in science, music and theatre. Since 2002 he works with Waag Society. He transformed the education program into the Creative Learning Lab, that started in 2008.
