Media Literacy Education

Media Literacy

Literary in the education framework is a big component. Teachers creatively find ways to enrich, support and reinforce the skills that children will need for their academic success. However, after the new technological revolution in this century, now teachers are finding ways to also meet the needs of the media literacy in education. 

  

Children need to be educated to understand the world that is around them and be able to distinguish the reliable information between the rest of the information.  Media literacy has its own definition. According to the National Association for Media Literacy Education, media literacy education is the way that children access, analyze, evaluate and communicate information that is printed or not. Educators teach these valuable things in the classroom and they are related with the framework of literacy.  The media is bombarding the public with messages  and children are the included as a potential target. Therefore it is important to teach our children  the critical thinking skills and be more open for future research to verify the information. David Fowler published an important article about the importance of teaching these skills to our children. It is important for children to be equipped to take advantage of the good side of the media and not be harm by it.

Teachers need to create and implement lessons that can help children develop a more questionable way to think before they accept the information as a the most reliable information available. Media Education Lab gives a list of five important questions that teachers need to teach children before they accept the information as reliable information. It also gives them resources about activities and resources that could be beneficial for their teaching careers.