What is Media Literacy? A Definition...and More. | Center for Media Literacy - 1 views
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ino moreno on 18 Feb 13In todays culture children at a young age learn from the media and whats on TV, and popular social networking sites. censorship has become all but null, information is a few keystrokes away.
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Media literacy, therefore, is about helping students become competent, critical and literate in all media forms so that they control the interpretation of what they see or hear rather than letting the interpretation control them.
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To become media literate is not to memorize facts or statistics about the media, but rather to learn to raise the right questions about what you are watching, reading or listening to. Len Masterman, the acclaimed author of Teaching the Media, calls it "critical autonomy" or the ability to think for oneself.