Double Entry Journal #5

Quote:

"Advocates of digital media education agree that reading online demands different skills than reading print-only texts does. They differ, however, on the extent to which training in the new literacies should go beyond procedural learning—how to use search engines, read URLs, identify Web site publishers, and so on—to include more cognitively demanding tasks that teach sound critical judgment and sense making." -Teaching Media Literacy

 Response:

 As a 21st century approach to education, Media Literacy provides a framework to access, analyze, evaluate, create, and participate with messages. This includes a variety of forms from print to video on the Internet. The Collegiate Dictionary states that literacy is "the quality or state of being literate," though Media literacy helps us understand the role of media in society as well as necessary skills and self-expression for citizens of a democracy. The literacy skills that are required to navigate and understand text, images, and multimedia on screen are different from the traditional literacy skills of reading, writing, viewing and listening.

Media Literacy

Sources:

"Media Literacy: A Definition and More | Center for Media Literacy." Center for Media Literacy. N.p., n.d. Web. 26 Sept. 2012. <http://www.medialit.org/media-literacy-definition-and-more>. 

"Definitions of Literacy." UNM - New Mexico's Flagship University | The University of New Mexico. N.p., n.d. Web. 26 Sept. 2012. <http://www.unm.edu/~devalenz/handouts/literacy.html>. 

Librarianship, International Association of School. "How much do traditional literacy skills count?." Upload & Share PowerPoint presentations and documents. N.p., n.d. Web. 26 Sept. 2012. <http://www.slideshare.net/IASLonline/literacy-skills-challenged>.