MediaEd Podcast
MediaEd Podcast
Our MediaEd Podcast series celebrates the 20th Anniversary of the Media Education Lab in 2023. With current and past friends, we hear their experiences working to advance media literacy education with us. Join our host Executive Director, Yonty Friesem on their journey to learn more how the Media Education Lab impacted its members.
Listen to Podcast Series
Episode 1: Renee Hobbs
In our inaugural episode of the MediaEd Podcast, our host, Yonty Friesem interviews the founder and co-director of the Media Education Lab about her vision and work in the last 20 years to build the community it is today.
Episode 2: Faith Rogow
Interview with Faith Rogow, Ph.D., independent scholar and author of Media Literacy for Young Children: Teaching Beyond the Screen Time Debates (NAEYC, 2022). Faith is an internationally respected leader and curriculum developer who has been an innovator of media literacy education practices for more than 30 years.
Episode 3: Donnell Probst and Michelle Ciulla Lipkin (NAMLE)
In this episode of the MediaEd Podcast, Yonty Friesem sits down with both Donnell Probst, Executive Director of the National Association for Media Literacy Education (NAMLE) and Michelle Ciulla Lipkin, senior advisor and former Executive Director for NAMLE. In the conversation that took place three years ago, they all reflected together on their collaboration with the Media Education Lab and its team over the years. The podcast also looked into future collaborations that both currently contribute to.
Episode 4: Sherri Hope Culver
In this episode, Sherri Hope Culver, Director of the Centre for Media and Information Literacy and Professor at Temple University, reflects on her history of working with Renee Hobbs and the Media Education Lab.
Episode 5: Pamela Steager
Episode 5: Pamela Steager
In this episode, Pam Steager, OG member of the Media Education Lab, talks with Yonty Friesem to reflect on her journey with media literacy. Listen how she describes her engagement with Elizabeth Thoman and the Felton Scholars Program in 1999. Pam has travelled all over the world to help teachers to integrate media literacy into the curriculum.
With co-authors Renee Hobbs and Liz Deslauriers, she wrote The Library Screen Scene, a book on film and media programs in school and public libraries, published by Oxford University Press in 2019.
Pam delights in sharing the many rewards on her “passion project” of media literacy. She also explains how the Courageous Rhode Island enables her to make new friends and colleagues across the state.