Media, Culture, and Education: One Teacher’s Journey through the Mediated Intersections

Today’s classrooms often have a plethora of new ways of reading and writing entering the room, but too often these new ways of “doing” are disregarded and checked at the door. For this reason, one educator shares her journey through the mediated intersections of media, culture, and education. In this piece, she explores how literacy transformations are impacting her classroom and her students’ lives, how she tries to make connections for her students, as well as noting what these mediated intersections might mean for the future of education

Post-mortem assessment in vascular dementia: advances and aspirations.

BACKGROUND: Cerebrovascular lesions are a frequent finding in the elderly population. However, the impact of these lesions on cognitive performance, the prevalence of vascular dementia, and the pathophysiology behind characteristic in vivo imaging findings are subject to controversy. Moreover, there are no standardised criteria for the neuropathological assessment of cerebrovascular disease or its related lesions in human post-mortem brains, and conventional histological techniques may indeed be insufficient to fully reflect the consequences of cerebrovascular disease. DISCUSSION: Here, we review and discuss both the neuropathological and in vivo imaging characteristics of cerebrovascular disease, prevalence rates of vascular dementia, and clinico-pathological correlations. We also discuss the frequent comorbidity of cerebrovascular pathology and Alzheimer's disease pathology, as well as the difficult and controversial issue of clinically differentiating between Alzheimer's disease, vascular dementia and mixed Alzheimer's disease/vascular dementia. Finally, we consider additional novel approaches to complement and enhance current post-mortem assessment of cerebral human tissue. CONCLUSION: Elucidation of the pathophysiology of cerebrovascular disease, clarification of characteristic findings of in vivo imaging and knowledge about the impact of combined pathologies are needed to improve the diagnostic accuracy of clinical diagnoses

One Teacher's Journey through the Mediated Intersections Voices in the Field

Abstract Reflections from an English teacher on how literacy is transforming, on the joys of learning from and with students, and on how an exploration of mediated intersections might impact the future of literacy education

Stories of sports: critical literacy in media production, consumption, and dissemination/ edited by Katherin Garland, Katie Shepherd Dredger, Crystal L. Beach and Cathy Leogrande.

Includes bibliographical references and index."This book centralizes media, sports, and athlete identity while providing an in-depth evaluation of the role that media play in how society views and discusses sports and athletes, highlighting several types of intertextuality and intersectionality while doing so"--Foreword / Andraya N. Carter -- Using critical media literacy pedagogy to analyze Colin Kaepernick's athletic activism / Katherin Garland -- Selling patriotism on and off the field : media connections between baseball, the military, and the government / Brian Sheehy -- Relationships between youth-sports coaches and athletes : messages from the "best" sports-related films / Luke Rodesiler, Mark A. Lewis, and Alan Brown -- Truth be told : the mutual responsibilities of artists and consumers / Mark A. Fabrizi -- Telling the story of youth, sports, and disability in Friday Night Lights / Ewa McGrail, J. Patrick McGrail, and Alicja Rieger -- Transforming diabetes stigma : the role of counternarrative in sports media / Cynthia Martin -- Languaging actions in sports media and students' writing about sports / Richard Beach and Limarys Caraballo -- Performance, style, and substance : the female athlete / Crystal L. Beach and Katie Dredger -- Booth, sidelines or studio : how place defines women sports broadcasters on television / Cathy Leogrande.1 online resource (xi, 223 pages)

DIGITAL REMIXING ONLINE: ENTANGLED FEELINGS

Our purpose for researching self-sponsored creative composing online was to explore ways in which the cultural practice of digital remix might mediate connections among participants in a study conducted on a Creative Commons website. Specifically, we asked to what degree, if any, might digital remixes inspire or arouse feelings of connection with and through the creator and the created? A conceptual framework that took into account a case study design, the cultural practice of digital remix, and people’s reported feelings associated with that practice fell well within the realm of a post-intentional approach to studying the phenomenon of digital remix. A total of 82 remixes, 51 fragments, and 56 blogs were available for analysis. Using a five-step analytic procedure developed by the authors, we conducted 26 individual semi-structured interviews. Implications based on the data from those interviews, along with separate content analyses of the digital remixes, are discussed

A Strategy for Improving Health Disparities Education in Medicine

A health disparities curriculum that uses evidence-based knowledge rooted in pedagogic theory is needed to educate health care providers to meet the needs of an increasingly diverse U.S. population