What is Media Literacy?
Media literacy is the ability to access, analyze, and evaluate information as well as to create text in various forms: print, video, audio, virtual displays, multimedia, Internet and more. Media education allows students to build skills of inquiry, critical thinking, and self-expression.
Media Literacy
The goal of media literacy education is to empower your students with the tools to communicate and thrive successfully in society. Teachers need to consider the current literacy demands of the technological age. Teachers are ultimately responsible to teach your students to communicate. While reading and writing are the heart and soul of standard literacy education, you should reconsider what it means to be literate in this technological age. Through media literacy, students benefit from learning in ways that allow them to participate fully in public, community, and economic life.
Media literacy connects the curriculum of the classroom with the curriculum of the living room. Making these connections requires an educationally sound framework and structure while leaving room for open-ended inquiry and the excitement of discovery. In the world of multi-tasking, commercialism, globalization and interactivity, media education isn't about having the right answers, it's about asking the right questions. The result is lifelong empowerment of the learner.
What do teachers need to know to implement media literacy in the classroom?
How to Teach Media Literacy
http://www.medialit.org/reading-room
http://www.medialit.org/lesson-plans-and-activity-archive
http://www.medialit.org/how-teach-media-literacy
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