February 24, 2025
Ep 1: A, B, Media Litra-C
<p>Media literacy is a skill that we can develop. However, as in the case of many skills and behaviors, the confidence someone has in those skills can predict a person's willingness to do such skills. In our first episode, we explore the idea of Self-Efficacy and how Sesame Street helps develop cognitive skills while addressing affective goals, increasing children's and parents' self-esteem, competency, and self-efficacy. Sesame Street offers valuable skills to both children and parents through Entertainment Education. So, how can we learn from Sesame Street and apply their approaches to media literacy application?</p><p>Media Sources:</p><p>Sesame Workshop. (2024, May 3). Big Bird gets the COVID-19 vaccine. https://sesameworkshop.org/resources/big-bird-gets-the-covid-vaccine/</p><p>Sesame Street Workshop. (2015, October 20). Talk Listen Connect. For Families: Deployment Story. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6bK2ayZIBo</p><p>Sesame Workshop. (2024, June 26). Financial education. https://sesameworkshop.org/topics/financial-education/</p><p>Wilcox, D. (1972, February 16). Sesame Street: S3. Sesame Workshop.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>Research Sources:</p><p>Bandura, A. (1989). Human agency in social cognitive theory. American Psychologist, 44(9), 1175–1184. https://doi.org/10.1037/0003-066X.44.9.1175 </p><p>Bandura, A. (2004). Social Cognitive Theory for Personal and Social Change by Enabling Media. In A. Singhal, M. J. Cody, E. M. Rogers, & M. Sabido (Eds.), Entertainment-education and social change: History, research, and practice (pp. 75–96). Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Publishers.</p><p>Bandura, A. (2013). Health promotion from the perspective of social cognitive theory. In Understanding and changing health behavior (pp. 299-339). Psychology Press. </p><p>Davis, Michael (2008). Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street. New York: Viking Penguin. ISBN 978-0-670-01996-0. </p><p>Fisch, S. M., & Truglio, R. T. (2011). “G” is for growing: Thirty Years of Research on children and Sesame Street. Routledge.</p><p>Flittner O’Grady, A., Thomaseo Burton, E., Chawla, N., Topp, D., & MacDermid Wadsworth, S. (2015). Evaluation of a multimedia intervention for children and families facing multiple military deployments. The Journal of Primary Prevention, 37(1), 53–70. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10935-015-0410-7</p><p>Kearney, M., & Levine, P. (2015). Early Childhood Education by MOOC: Lessons from Sesame Street. https://doi.org/10.3386/w21229</p><p>Li, J., Foley, J. M., Dumdum, O., & Wagner, M. W. (2022). The power of a genre: Political news presented as fact-checking increases accurate belief updating and hostile media perceptions. Mass Communication and Society, 25, 282-307. doi:10/1080/15205436.2021.1924382</p><p>Mielke, K.W. (1990). Research and development at the Children’s Television Workshop. Educational Technology Research and Development, 38 (4), 7-16.</p><p>NAMLE. (2024, March 7). Core principles. https://namle.net/publications/core-principles/</p><p>Shapiro, J. (2018). Digital play for global citizens: A guide from the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop. The Joan Ganz Cooney Center: Advancing children’s education in the digital age. https://joanganzcooneycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/jgcc_digitalplayforglobalcitizens.pdf</p><p>Sherman, M. D., Monn, A., Larsen, J. L., & Gewirtz, A. (2018). Evaluation of a Sesame Street multimedia intervention for families transitioning out of the military. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 27(8), 2533-2540. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10826-018-1083-7</p><p><br></p>
