Quote- "Explicit teaching of 21st century literacy metaskills can position students to anylyze and evaluate news reporting in today' s visual drenched world."- Debbie Abilock
Response- I think that these skills are important for students to learn. Many students spend most of their time viewing various forms of media. What they might not know is that they can not believe everything they read or see in the media. I believe it is our job as future educators to teach our students how to seperate the truth from what is false. By doing this the students will be able to judge for themselves what is correct and what may be exaggerated. By teaching students how to do this educators may change the students perception of an issue or an event. The students will then be basing thier beliefs on the truth and not what the media wants them to believe.
Related Resource-This web site has alot of information and useful tools that are related to media literacy.
Referances-
Abilock, D. (2003). A seven-power lens on 21st century literacy. Multimedia schools, Retrieved from http://www.infotoday.com/mmschools
Action 4 media education. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://action4mediaeducation.org/index.html
Agreed, if teachers don't than who will teach students between good and bad sources of media. My next guess who could teach them would be their parents. However parents don't think they need to share the teaching role with teachers. Which teachers and I feel that it is not the case any where in the world.
ReplyDeleteAs parents should be the ones primarily educating their children on his issue, unfortunately, we future educators must count on teaching the difference of what is legitimate media and what is not.
ReplyDeleteI agree! Parents need to make sure what their children are reading and looking at and learining in the digital world. We do have to count on teachers educating our children as well. Today's visually drenched world is kind of overwelming and you have so many new things advancing everyday.
ReplyDeleteI agree that we need to teach our students the differences between good and bad media, but I don't think that it should fall just on the teachers. As a parent I feel that it is my job as well to teach my son what he should and shouldn't be looking at on the internet and if he does come across something that he has questions about I want to be the one giving him the answers and helping him decide what the information is that he is reading. I know that a lot of people think that most parents don't care about their children's education and that we all think that its the teachers job, but that isn't always the truth, as future teachers we need to make it a point to work with the parents of the children we have not judge.
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