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Becoming media literate is an essential skill for today’s students, employees and culture-vultures.
From political speeches, to newspapers, to television, to online social media, to music, to advertising, our world is saturated with electronic and print media that all send a message.
Finding and analyzing those messages will help us develop critical thinking about media bias, and learn how the media uses the power of persuasion.
If you teach media studies, or if you are interested in learning more about media education, you will find information and lesson ideas to help you become knowledgeable about media literacy.
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Visual Communications Literacy Development
People spend more time with digital visual media than ever before. Understanding visual communication and design is an indispensable facet of literacy. more...
Scoopler and Collecta are new generation search engines that return live and up to the second results from social media and news sites on the latest breaking events. more...
Twitterature – Classic Literature in Tweets
Two young college students write "Twitterature: Classic Literature in Twenty Tweets or Less" to recreate classic literature in a micro-novel format. more...
Information abounds on the Internet. Knowing what to believe and what to discredit is an important skill in evaluating online resources for accuracy and dependability. more...
Teaching Information Literacy Skills Using Big6
Information literacy skills can be taught to students of all ages from elementary school to graduate levels by integrating the curriculum with the Big 6 process model. more...
Information literacy is a critical set of skills that teach a person to know when and how to do research and use the knowledge effectively in communication and action. more...
Is Seeing Believing in an Age of Digital Photos?
The ability to use digital technology to create photo mashups has contributed to the rise of photographic hoaxes and the use of digital forensics to detect them. more...
Using SEO and Social Media Marketing Together
Successful marketing strategy in today's web world needs a marriage of SEO and social media working together to enhance a website's visibility. more...
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