Media literacy is a 21st century approach to education.
Media literacy as defined by the Wikipedia is an education that provides tools to help people critically analyze messages, offers opportunities for learners to broaden their experience of media, and helps them develop creative skills in making their own media messages. This could be analyzing the meaning of a speech, poem, news article, television show, or even video games.
Media literacy can empower students to interact positively with their peers and society. Tools such as; get objective new, investigative reporting, solve problems and highlight issues for someone to take it up and can help high-risk youth develop more responsible decision making skills. Students must develop the right tools with which to interact because media literacy can help promote positive attitudes toward learning and help provide an effective means of conveying ideas and information. Media literacy will show students how to use the media as a tool for life-long learning. Here is a list of an importance of media literacy on this link from Center of Media Literacy.
New approaches are required when teaching media literacy. It is important for teachers as for students to become aware of the media’s power and influence. The effects of media literacy have proven positive in studies across various disciplines concerning various subjects. It is incredibly important that we keep ourselves, our children, and our society media literate in order to counteract the possible negative influences media may have on us. It is important to be media literate, much like it is important to be traditionally literate. To read more on the importance of media literacy, Mark Hannah wrote a good article you make read.
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