Media Literacy: What is it, and why is it important? This resource will guide you through general information and ways to be smart about the information you consume.
Media literacy is accessing, analyzing, evaluating, and creating media confidently.
"The ability to navigate within our complex and ever-changing media landscape depends on acquiring skills and tools to know how to consume and evaluate information, ask critical questions, avoid manipulation, and engage in digital spaces safely and confidently" (Media Literacy Now)
As an information consumer, you should be able to do the following:
According to MediaSmarts, "Media are powerful forces in the lives of youth. Music, TV, video games, magazines, and other media all strongly influence how we see the world, an influence that often begins in infancy. To be engaged and critical media consumers, kids need to develop skills and habits of media literacy. These skills include accessing media on a basic level, analyzing it critically based on certain key concepts, evaluating it based on that analysis, and, finally, producing media oneself. This process of learning media literacy skills is media education".
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