Sabrina Santiago's List: Media Literacy

• • examples of media literacy activities in social studies

• Implementation of Media Literacy within a Social Studies Context

   
• • examples of media literacy activities in social studies
• The following are examples of media literacy activities in social studies classrooms:

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• • affects communities, schools etc.
• Effectiveness of Media Literacy
• Beyond the Classroom
• Family
• Media

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• • Affects children and adults
• 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. It involves a dialogue between children and their teachers and/or parents-one in which both children and adults ask questions. A teacher might ask a group of students, "Who is this commercial targeting?" Students might be prodded to discuss how different images make them feel about various issues. For example, several characters on one popular high school tv drama are filmed smoking cigarettes on every episode. Why has the creator of this show made this choice? How does this choice affect viewers? High school students can be particularly impressionable targets, drawn to advertised products or activities that claim, if only implicitly, to make people "cooler" or more attractive in some crucial sense. Examining the messages that advertisements and commercials send to their audience is a valuable activity for teachers to engage in with high school students.

• • development skills of info
• Literacy is the ability to use printed and written  information to function in society, to
• achieve one's goals, and to develop  one's knowledge and potential.

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• • "the ability to recognize and understand ideas conveyed through visible actions or images (as pictures)."
    
    
• literacy is "the quality or state of being literate."
• "the ability to recognize and understand ideas conveyed through visible actions or images (as pictures)."

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• • any form of information
• Any form of information, including music and movies. May also refer to CDs, DVDs, videotapes and other prerecorded material

• especially television, radio, newspapers, and the Interne
• • main means of mass communication
• In practice, in the sense ‘television, radio, the press, and the Internet, collectively,’ media behaves as a collective noun (like staff or clergy, for example)

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• • Using "critical thinking"
• ACCESS, ANALYZE, EVALUATE, and COMMUNICATE

• • How media literacy can benefit a person.
• • community, public and education
• Media literacy skills can help children, youth and

  adults:
• aning
• dia literacy education helps to develop critical

  thinking and active participation in our media

  culture.
• In schools:
• In the community

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• • Definition of Media Literacy
• Media Literacy is the ability to access, analyze, critically evaluate, and produce   communication in a variety of forms. It is similar to information literacy and   involves many components of technology literacy as well.
• Like traditional literacy, media literacy involves critical thinking, analytical   skills, and the ability to express oneself in different ways
• being able to judge   the credibility of information from different sources

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