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• • Good source of background on Media Literacy
• Media literate people should be able to skillfully create and produce media messages, both to show understanding of the specific qualities of each medium, as well as to create independent media and participate as active citizens. Media literacy can be seen as contributing to an expanded conceptualization of literacy, treating mass media, popular culture and digital media as new types of 'texts' that require analysis and evaluation.
• Media literacy education is actively focused on the instructional methods and pedagogy of media literacy, integrating theoretical and critical frameworks rising from constructivist learning theory, media studies and cultural studies scholarship.
• Media literacy education has been an interest in the United States since the early 20th century, when high school English teachers first started using film to develop students' critical thinking and communication skills.
• Typically, U.S. media literacy education includes a focus on news, advertising, issues of representation, and media ownership. Media literacy competencies can also be cultivated in the home, through activities including co-viewing and discussion.^[
• The purpose of media literacy education is to help individuals of all ages develop the habits of inquiry and skills of expression that they need to be critical thinkers, effective communicators and active citizens in today’s world.

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• • Media Literacy Defined
• The term “media literacy” is often used interchangeably with other terms related to media and media technologies.
• Media literacy: The ability to ACCESS, ANALYZE, EVALUATE, and COMMUNICATE information in a variety of forms-is interdisciplinary by nature. Media literacy represents a necessary, inevitable, and realistic response to the complex, ever-changing electronic environment and communication cornucopia that surround us.

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• Millions of people watch, listen to, or read some form of media, individually and collectively, for hours every day. In developing countries, people's lives are transformed as media become part of their culture.   Media's benefits are accompanied by these concerns:
• Media's benefits are accompanied by these concerns:
• Millions of people watch, listen to, or read some form of media, individually and collectively, for hours every day. In developing countries, people's lives are transformed as media become part of their culture.
• Both children and adults need media literacy education to become wise consumers and effective participants in democracy in a digital age.

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• • Good Article
• . It allows people to interact with different media in constructive and thoughtful ways, using and developing their critical thinking skills. It involves the continued questioning of the messages we all receive every day, sometimes in very subtle but still powerful ways
• It is estimated that children spend, on average, four hours every day watching television, and yet there is very little discussion between children and adults about what they are watching. Media literacy starts with simply talking about the media we are consuming.

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•  … the ability to access, analyze, evaluate and create media in a variety of forms.
• Media Literacy is a 21st century approach to education.
   • It provides a framework to access, analyze, evaluate and create messages in a variety of forms - from print to video to the Internet.
   • Media literacy builds an understanding of the role of media in society as well as essential skills of inquiry and self-expression necessary for citizens of a democracy.
• Media literacy, therefore, is about helping students become competent, critical and literate in all media forms so that they control the interpretation of what they see or hear rather than letting the interpretation control them.

• To become media literate is not to memorize facts or statistics about the media, but rather to learn to raise the right questions about what you are watching, reading or listening to. Len Masterman, the acclaimed author of Teaching the Media, calls it "critical autonomy" or the ability to think for oneself.

   

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• Basic Processes of Literacy:   Access, Analyze, Evaluate and Communicate  
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• Conclusion

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• For citizens living in   the United States at the end of the 20th century, it hardly seems necessary   to state the evidence which shows the dominance of film, television,   and other mass media products on the lives of Americans (see Alton-Lee,   Huthall & Patrick, 1993; Howe, 1983; Kubey & Csikszentmihalyi, 1990   for examples of recent evidence).
• Literacy is the ability   to access, analyze, evaluate and communicate messages in a variety of   forms.

• Media Literacy and Critical   Thinking Skills  
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• What is media literacy?  Literacy in general is being able to read and comprehend what you are reading.  Media literacy is a term that has been coined to describe the ability to recognize and understand that all media has a message and those messages have an impact in our lives.
• It's not just entertainment; every song is a sermon, every movie a message, every TV a teacher, every word a weapon, and a picture's worth a thousand words.  Consider the impact of a single movie containing thousands of pictures all worth a thousand words. 

• • Awesome article
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• How to Analyze a News Story: Eight Guidelines for Reading Between the Lines