Mjbrewer8's List: Media Literacy

• • Being able to think in a critical manner while consuming all types of media is imperative.

• High school media literacy courses teach students how to watch for manipulation and think critically while consuming media of all kinds -- print, visual, audio, video, and online.

• • Adolescents will typically take the information available to them, weeding out the information unnecessary to meet their own required criteria, to find what they want to find. Locating information through a variety of media is no problem.
• the myriad of examples, quotes, cartoons, album covers, lyrics, slogans and images taken from various media make the book an engaging and visually stimulating book. Furthermore, because so many of the charts and examples use well-known products, models, actors or companies, the majority of North American readers will readily identify and connect with this material even if media studies are not their area of expertise or training.

• • The importance of children understanding the impact of media is is based on their understanding of what is real and what is not.
• Students -children and teenagers alike-are exposed to a variety of media much more vast than that of their parents' generation.
• Media literacy promotes learning how to interpret the constant barrage of messages, how to decide which messages are valuable, and how to deal with the potentially negative effects of media.
• teachers may want to clarify for younger children what the purpose of commercials is and how advertising works.
• Even "reality" television depends on camera angles and the director's choice of images. While it may seem obvious that science fiction films or cartoons are not "real," it can be more difficult for children when it comes to dramas and sitcoms.

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