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This article discusses the ways that media literacy
education helps students become more critical thinkers. The questions are identified that students
can ask to evaluate media messages and determine their value.
Semali, L. (2001, November).
Defining new literacies in curricular practice. Reading Online, 5(4).
Available: http://www.readingonline.org/newliteracies/lit_index.asp?HREF=semali1/index.html
This article discusses the types of literacies included in
media literacy. These include computer
literacy, information literacy, media literacy, television literacy, and visual
literacy.
Sauer, H., & Robles-Pina,
Ph.D., R. (2003). Magazines: what adolescent girls are reading and the way they
shape body image. Advancing Women in Leadership, Retrieved from http://www.advancingwomen.com/awl/winter2003/SAUERR~1.html
This article discusses the impact that magazines and
similar media have on the self-images of adolescent girls, as well as the
importance of teaching them critical media literacy skills to help them
interpret misinformation.
Hobbs, R. Teaching media literacy: yo! are you hip to
this?. Retrieved from http://www.medialit.org/reading-room/teaching-media-literacy-yo-are-you-hip
This article focuses on teaching
children to identify and interpret the media images that they are presented with
on a daily basis from various sources.
If students are taught to evaluate these messages, they are able to
become more informed consumers and be less easily influenced.
Abilock, D. (2003, November/December). A seven-power lens on
21st-century literacy. Multimedia Schools, Retrieved from http://www.noodletools.com/debbie/literacies/newsmedia/PowerLensSingle.pdf
This
article focuses on teaching students to evaluate media messages through
observation and inferences.
