Twelve videos for discussion.  We teach our children.  The world teaches our children.  Our media teaches our children.  But what are our children learning? Are they learning to kill - or just the opposite?  Or, are kids learning something else entirely?

In our mediated world, which media are we studying?  Is the Koran more powerful than the computer?  When children focus their studies on one thing from childhood, does it affect them?  Unfortunately, media effects and technological determinism are the whipping-posts within post-modern communication theory.  But look around… can media indoctrinate?  Does it influence?  Should we be revisiting media-effects scholarship?

What messages do we study?  How - and what - do our messages disseminate? Is “TV” more powerful than on-line gaming?  Do religious Madrassas have any similarities to LAN parties? Is one more REAL than another?  If so, how?  Do suicide bombers kill significantly differently than the endless slaughter within violent video games?  Can children tell the difference?  Do we teach them the difference?  Is there a difference to teach?

Consider visual literacy and grow better media communication.