Latest Medialiteracy Podcast Episodes
2. Sanjay Bhandari
Tech Shock - from Parent Zone - February 13, 2023 00:00 - 59 minutesVicki and Geraldine talk to the CEO of Kick It Out about hate speech in football, online and off. Talking points: How can racism in football both be getting better and worse? Is the problem in elite clubs or at grassroots? Given what happened over LGBT rights at the World Cup, is Fifa fit fo...
1. Lynn Perry
Tech Shock - from Parent Zone - February 06, 2023 00:00 - 46 minutesAs the Online Safety Bill returns to parliament, Vicki and Geraldine talk to the CEO of Barnardo’s, which supports many of Britain’s most vulnerable children, about how much difference it could make. Talking points: What would the world have looked like if previous policies to intervene early ...
Podcast481: CMC World Student News
Moving at the Speed of Creativity Podcasts - December 22, 2022 23:43 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsThis podcast features an October 2022 with middle school student CMC (his public alias) who is the creator of CMC World News (cmcworldnews.com). In this 20 minute conversation, CMC shares the origin story of CMC World News and how he came up with the idea, developed the website, and now maintain...
12. Return of the Online Safety Bill
Tech Shock - from Parent Zone - December 19, 2022 00:00 - 43 minutesAs a revised Bill comes back to parliament under a new-look government, Vicki and Geraldine discuss what’s changed, and whether it’s for better or worse. Talking points: Where are we? The ’triple shield’ - better than ‘legal but harmful'? Can end-to-end encrypted messages ever be scanned for ...
11. Kat Dixon
Tech Shock - from Parent Zone - December 12, 2022 00:00 - 44 minutesVicki and Geraldine talk to Kat Dixon, who spent the summer of 2022 exploring the ways data poverty damages people’s ability to live fully, as well as a host of really exciting local initiatives to counteract it. Talking points: Why you don’t have to be poor to experience data poverty. Soluti...
10. Simeon Yates
Tech Shock - from Parent Zone - December 05, 2022 00:00 - 43 minutesVicki and Geraldine talk to the Professor of Digital Culture at the University of Liverpool about why Britain has too narrow a view of digital literacy - and a quite shocking amount of digital illiteracy. Talking points: Why media literacy means understanding what data’s being collected about ...
9. Natalia Kucirkova
Tech Shock - from Parent Zone - November 28, 2022 00:00 - 41 minutesVicki and Geraldine talk to the Professor of reading and children’s development at the Open University, an expert on children’s digital books. Are digital books the future of children’s reading? - Can digital books appeal to a wider range of children than print books? - Digital books have the ...
8. Ofcom’s Anna-Sophie Harling and Caroline Cason
Tech Shock - from Parent Zone - November 21, 2022 00:00 - 49 minutesVicki and Geraldine talk to Ofcom about regulating the internet. What have we learnt so far? Talking points: Why do parents help their children to dodge the system? Can you keep legal but harmful content and protect children? What can we learn from Ofcom’s regulation of video sharing platform...
7. Aiman El Aman
Tech Shock - from Parent Zone - November 14, 2022 00:00 - 34 minutesVicki and Geraldine talk to a psychiatrist from Kingston University who studies the relationship between children’s vulnerability and their likelihood of encountering online harm. Talking points: Which types of vulnerability predict which harms? Why is better mental health the key to breaking...
6. Kira Allman
Tech Shock - from Parent Zone - November 07, 2022 10:00 - 1 hourVicki and Geraldine talk to digital inequalities expert Kira Allman, recently appointed Senior Digital Policy Officer at Manchester City Council, about why we so often get ‘the digital divide’ wrong, why thinking of digital infrastructure as being like water is helpful, and the prospects for AI ...
5. Gay and Roxy Longworth
Tech Shock - from Parent Zone - October 31, 2022 00:00 - 38 minutesVicki and Geraldine talk to a mother and daughter, authors of a new book, When You Lose It, about the devastating consequences they suffered when Roxy was bullied into sending nudes to older boys at school. The pair are brutally honest about what happened, which included Roxy's being sectioned w...
4. Conference!
Tech Shock - from Parent Zone - October 23, 2022 23:00 - 45 minutesVicki and Geraldine look back at Digital Families 2022, held live at the RSA and streamed online, talking through speaker insights and their fave bits. Talking points: Media literacy and regulation: where does the balance lie between providers and users for safety and thriving online? Why por...
3. Sam Gilbert
Tech Shock - from Parent Zone - October 16, 2022 23:00 - 35 minutesVicki and Geraldine talk to the expert on Crypto, Web 3 and the Metaverse about what the future is going to look like - and learn it might involve child labour. Talking points: Should Parent Zone be getting into Crypto? What are the online harms of the future web? Is the future of the web th...
2. Callum Hood
Tech Shock - from Parent Zone - October 09, 2022 23:00 - 52 minutesVicki and Geraldine talk to Callum Hood, Head of Research at the Center for Countering Digital Hate, about their recently published report on incels. Talking points: How is incel culture linked to body image and unemployment support for young men? How is the demeaning of older women is associ...
1. Damon de Ionno
Tech Shock - from Parent Zone - October 02, 2022 23:00 - 48 minutesVicki and Geraldine talk to the Managing Director of Revealing Reality, the organisation researching technology, media and online harms for the DCMS, Ofcom and others. They cover the sending and sharing of nude images, the possible ditching of ‘legal but harmful’ from the Online Safety Bill, and...
Podcast480: Pedagogy Matters with Shelly Fryer
Moving at the Speed of Creativity Podcasts - June 23, 2022 15:10 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsWelcome to the first of a new podcast interview series I'm titling, "Pedagogy Matters." This episode, recorded on May 30, 2022, features the pedagogy of my wife, Shelly Fryer, which I would summarize as "A Pedagogy of Computational Thinking: Constructionism, Coding, Robotics, Play, and Student Ch...
16. Season roundup
Tech Shock - from Parent Zone - May 22, 2022 23:00 - 34 minutesVicki and Geraldine look back on the latest Tech Shock season and talk about how its themes intersect with Parent Zone’s wider work. Talking points: Why has media literacy become the buzzword of the moment? Are we about to see the end of children freely accessing hardcore pornogoraphy? Does ...
15. Faith Rogow
Tech Shock - from Parent Zone - May 15, 2022 23:00 - 56 minutesVicki and Geraldine talk to the leading expert on media literacy about the need to make the very youngest children aware of how the digital world works. Talking points: Why start media literacy before children can even read? How do we make young children question information without making th...
14. Heather Wardle
Tech Shock - from Parent Zone - May 08, 2022 23:00 - 43 minutesVicki and Geraldine talk to a leading researcher about whether children are being groomed to gamble. Talking points: Why has gambling become so important to gaming? Are gambling laws inadequate for the age of the internet? Does exposing children to online gambling mean more problem gamblers ...
Podcast479: Teaching About Conspiracy Theories and Media Literacy
Moving at the Speed of Creativity Podcasts - May 04, 2022 02:57 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsThis podcast features a presentation by Wesley Fryer at the ATLIS (Association of Technology Leaders of Independent Schools) 2022 Conference in Orlando, Florida, on May 3, 2022. The title of the session was, "Teaching About Conspiracy Theories and Media Literacy." The official description was: Co...
13. Elly Hanson
Tech Shock - from Parent Zone - May 01, 2022 23:00 - 45 minutesVicki and Geraldine talk to a leading researcher into the effects of pornography about how some of the most sophisticated technology companies on the planet are manipulating human sexuality for profit. Talking points: Do parents underestimate the scale and nature of the pornography children a...
12. John Carr
Tech Shock - from Parent Zone - April 24, 2022 23:00 - 40 minutesVicki and Geraldine talk to John Carr, writer, campaigner and adviser to charities and governments, about whether the UK is finally about to see laws to stop children accessing online pornography. Talking points: Why has the government been so slow about stopping children accessing pornograph...
Podcast478: Updates and Classroom Favorites
Moving at the Speed of Creativity Podcasts - April 24, 2022 20:30 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsIn this podcast episode, Dr. Wesley Fryer shares a variety of updates about his current and changing teaching situation, geographic location, academic interests (media literacy!) and recent conferences / presentations. This podcast also includes audio from Wes’ recent video, “15 Things I Love Abo...
11. Marc Feldman and Natalie Foos
Tech Shock - from Parent Zone - April 17, 2022 23:00 - 40 minutesAs Voice Box publishes a report on Munchausen Syndrome by Internet, Vicki and Geraldine speak to the lead author, Natalie Foos, and the world’s foremost expert on the disorder, Dr Marc Feldman. Talking points: Trolling or mental health disorder? Why are so many mental health organisations ner...
10. Michelle Drouin
Tech Shock - from Parent Zone - April 10, 2022 23:00 - 38 minutesWe’re obsessed with our phones and we’re obsessed with relationships. Vicki and Geraldine talk to the academic who studies how one is changing the other. Talking points: When you’re watching TV and your partner picks up their phone, should you put the television on pause? Back-burner partne...
9. Frank Kelly
Tech Shock - from Parent Zone - April 03, 2022 23:00 - 40 minutesThis week’s guest is the lead researcher of a recent report for the Royal Society, The Online Information Environment. Frank Kelly, Professor of the Mathematics of Systems at Cambridge University, talks to Vicki and Geraldine about scientific misinformation. Talking points: Who decides what’s...
8. Tim Gill
Tech Shock - from Parent Zone - March 27, 2022 23:00 - 46 minutesGeraldine talks to Tim Gill, expert on children’s play, about the links between physical play and playing online. Talking points: What can children learn about navigating the internet from climbing trees? Why are playgrounds a problem? How do you tell the difference between a big, dangerous ...
7. Pernille Tranberg
Tech Shock - from Parent Zone - March 14, 2022 00:00 - 34 minutesVicki and Geraldine talk to the Danish writer and think-tanker, Pernille Tranberg, about her work helping children understand why data privacy matters. Talking points: Why we're all public figures now. Is encryption the answer? Will we end up age-gating the internet? Tech Shock is a Parent ...
6. Virginia Dignum
Tech Shock - from Parent Zone - March 07, 2022 00:00 - 43 minutesVicki and Geraldine talk to Virginia Dignum, author of Responsible Artificial Intelligence, about how not to be afraid of robots. Talking points: What is AI anyway? How to design AI for human values when humans don’t agree? Will the robots take our jobs? How like us are robots? Tech Shock ...
5. Joe Miller
Tech Shock - from Parent Zone - February 28, 2022 00:00 - 24 minutesVicki and Geraldine talk to the Founder and CEO of the Washington Center for Technology Policy Inclusion (Washing Tech) about how to bring diverse voices into tech policy. Talking points: Mark Zuckerberg: an Alexander the Great for our times? What’s the problem with legislation to protect con...
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