Tuesday, September 16, 2014
Assignment # 1: Thinking about Media Literacy
"For centuries, literacy has referred to the ability to read and write. Today, we get most of our information through an interwoven system of media technologies. The ability to read many types of media has become an essential skill in the 21st Century. Media literacy is the ability to access, analyze, evaluate, and create media. Media literate youth and adults are better able to understand the complex messages we receive from television, radio, Internet, newspapers, magazines, books, billboards, video games, music, and all other forms of media. Media literacy skills are included in the educational standards of every state—in language arts, social studies, health, science, and other subjects. Many educators have discovered that media literacy is an effective and engaging way to apply critical thinking skills to a wide range of issues." (http://medialiteracyproject.org/learn/media-literacy) Why do you think this is?
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In the 21th century people are becoming more familiar with the Internet based working. More textbooks have pdf form to download, notebooks are substituted by online diaries, aka blogs.
ReplyDeleteI think, it is mire comfortable to have the internet based work and homework, because you don’t have to keep all of these sheets and papers in the holders and binders. Teacher can have an access to the blog to see who’s done with the work on time and who is not.
The skill to type fast is also very important in nowadays. Most work today is based on the computer’s programs and on the ability to work fast. Isn’t that the skill which is taught in school?)
I agree with Elena. Nowadays we have to know how to type fast because it is very important skill for our life. It is truly fine to join the school and technologies together because nowadays the technology is used in every career, so we will definitely need this skills in our future lives. As we go one with our studies we will go to universities where the amount of work and different materials will be greater and the fast typing skill will be useful.
DeleteI agree with you in all of the things you said :). Not only textbooks but books and articles that educators use constantly in class. Working and typing fast are important skills while the content you write is as good as your fastness skill. Great observations.
DeleteI totally agree with Elena's opinion. Having all material for education in the Internet is really comfortable. Moreover, generally all students can easily use internet based materials because all of them are familiar with computers. It is significant improvement in education process.
DeleteI agree with Elena because the development of media helped to be faster in work, we don't need to remember to do small things which can thwart us from doing something bigger. This is why many schoold nowaays take media as mthods to teach students.
DeleteMedia became a very important aspect of our life. Media helps the modern society to get the information faster than before. For example now if something happened to you, you can call the emergency services from your cell phone. Also media helps us to learn faster. For example if you want to find a book or an article from a long time ago you don’t have to go to the library and search for it there, you can just google and find this book or article. So it saves a lot of time, which means people, have more time to study and they are able to find more materials to study in this time.
ReplyDeleteThat is also a good point of media! Now I mostly read downloaded books on the iPad, even though I love books themselves. I'm good with both electronically and paper versions. However, I know some people who can't read books from the electronic devise. they need to "feel the book": to touch the papers, to smell it, to annotate right in the book. So, in some ways it is very handy to have a development of media in that area. However, in some ways it can be dreadful.
DeleteI agree with your last point because now people use less real books and write less. They read electronic books and type their essays on the computer. But what will happen in the future? Will people forget how to write? Or may be people forget the feeling of reading real books? And what if something goes wrong and the internet and computers will not work? So I agree that media can be also dreadful.
DeleteI totally disagree with Anton's opinion. It is true that media made ways of getting information easier. However, what about reliability of information? How can people be sure that what did they find in the Internet was true? It is really significant issue. In the worth case people can get totally misleading information.
DeleteFor Sasha:
Delete"How can people be sure that what did they find in the Internet was true?"
Your knowledge question is good and relevant, and I have the best answer on this question: use critical thinking.
That is how media makes us to apply our critical thinking skills - we have to evaluate and analyze everything that we read.
In my opinion nowadays gaining knowledge is much easier then before because we can find all information in internet. There are millions websites where you can find answers for any question you might have. You don't have to look through tons of literature and ask a lot of people to find information you need, you just have type it in Google or some other search engine. From the one hand, internet is great tool for education with all its blogs encyclopedias and documentaries. From the other hand, most of the people waste time in internet for social networks.
ReplyDeleteI’m with you that gaining information is a lot easer now; therefore, the exposure to new things and knowledge is a lot higher. As you said, its faster information and more exact than in physical material. It is important not to waste your time on the social networks unless you can gain some type of knowledge from it.
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DeleteI agree that it's easier to search for information, but it's hard to find reliable one. What I'm trying to say that internet is full of unreliable articles, which are hard to monitore
The study of Media Literacy nowadays is important for our generation since we were born on times where technology was starting to get bigger and to be more present on our daily lives. It's hard to understand why the Media has such an impact on all of us, and that's why it becomes essencial for everyone to study it and learn how it works, and then you will start to notice how important it is and how many people it can connect. It's something you should learn because there are so many types of Media we can see/listen/read that each one needs to be interpreted in a different way.
ReplyDeleteI also believe that through the study of media literacy we will gain the knowledge of how the media shows and gains it's credibility, and what strategic way of growing into our everyday lives made us so dependent of it.
DeleteI agree, we will have so many different sides and new points of views, that will change the way that everybody sees the world.
DeleteAs presented in the excerpt, Media literacy has become an essential skill for modern people, and it obviously has positive impact on both education and lives. For many youth, Media literacy provides them access to diverse points of view online, and thus encounters or extends their own perspectives; for lives, too, people are more likely to engage in prevailing events or issues in the world: you have to know what is going on to respond to it. For instance, ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, which definitely raise attention from the help of media sources; thus people get to know the ALS, and popularly engage in it. We not only gain knowledge from the process, but also contribute to the society.
ReplyDeleteI fully agree with the example, that the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge really shows that nowadays, the media literacy can put on a huge momentum on some events and attract people much faster. But everything is two side, right? I mean what if someone wants to put something that spread the negative or dreadful information. Even it could be deleted by the network managers, it still will spread out in a really faster rate. Especially those with religious purposes or videos of IsIs kills American reporter.
DeleteI totally agree with Iris that media is not just to gain personal knowledge but it can also contribute the society in a fast and accurate way; the speed is so fast that the whole world could know about something in about a day or two depending in its relevance. The example of the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge was a great because its purpose was accomplished; it made me look up for what was ALS and could tell people around me what it is. This was a success to make the world be aware of ALS and could get a lot of money for patients with ALS and its research.
DeleteI agree with you a hundred percent, media is making us more aware of the events that surround us. And the ALS Ice Bucket Challange is a perfect example of how media allow us to know problems that are in the world and actually do something about them even if is just in a small amount of help.
DeleteI think that you mentioned the best example to show and demonstrate what media can actually do. Media has actually made easier to share knowledge and, as you said, it also contributes to the society.
DeleteYes, media has an impact on our lives and education but I wouldn't say that it is a good one or a bad one. I think that it depends more on the fact if people will analyze really everything that they read, see or hear. I think that one of the problem he have with the new generation is that people trust to much what the media say without thinking that what they are saying could be wrong
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Media became an important tool to have access to information for many people. Nowadays, it is much easier to get information in short time. Something can happen in one part of the world and people can learn about this in few minutes. However, there are some difficulties. Not all people can understand specific language, such business, economics or scientific language. That is why it is essential for media to make information clear to all people, otherwise they will not get massage. Furtemore, it is also significant for people to develop their skills of getting information to not misunderstood what author means. If going further some information form the media can be not true at all. That is essential to just believe what is said on TV but also imply critical thinking.
ReplyDeleteIt is really important to know how to get the correct knowledge today, especially today we have so many thoughts from different perspectives. So if we don't understand the meaning of the information, it is really important for us to reread it again.
DeleteI fully agree with you. Nowadays many media informations weren't fully true or clear, people post them mostly just for business or order.It is not only their responsibility to delivery the message, as well as our understanding.
DeleteI cannot disagree with you. Today it is hard to obtain accurate and complete information about topic that interests you. Especially when it comes to the political news. We need to be able to critically analyze the sources, which can often contradict each other.
DeleteI agree with you on the fact that with all the new technology it is really easy to have access to a lot of information about what happen all around the world and that it is important to people to be analytical to really see what is the truth and what is not. But about the message, I think that it is not the media that should make it more easier to understand, people should make the effort to be able to understand. I think this is how people or going to be more media literal.
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Roberto Mengibar Castro; I think that in the 21th century the people has became more familiar with the media literacy because is more simple to use and to search for it. also in man times yo don't have to pay for it for example, you can read a newspaper in the internet and you don't have to pay for it although when you buy a newspaper in the shop you have to pay for it. so for me media-literacy has become more simple to search for it and cheaper.
ReplyDeleteCompletely agree with your point about free access to information. It is the most beautiful thing in the world, we can get whatever we want for free. Also, something costs way too expensive (#expensive business magazines), in the internet we can just read all of it. Good job.
DeleteI am agree with the fact that it is cheaper and do not have to pay for the newspaper (still have to pay for internet :D ) . But you did not answer the question. Why media literacy is an effective and engaging way to apply the critical thinking skills to wide range of issues?
DeleteEducators have started to realize how media has become so powerful that people's everyday lives now indulge in its vast empire. Media is everywhere as mentioned above; television, radio, the Internet. By being literate in the fields of media we are able to grasp unfamiliar or previously difficult topics with ease. This too, in the case of critical thinking. Media has enabled people to assess what is credible information and what is not. In being able to do so people can apply that skill to all walks of life including language arts, social studies and science. Media essentially appeals to all logos, pathos and ethos and not only does it does so but it helps you question why those things appeal to us. We appreciate how powerful media and the responsibility that comes with it, I believe it is that responsibility that urges us to be critical thinkers.
ReplyDeleteI understand how media can shape our influences and create is to be more acceptable to the knowledge obtain and shared to a mass community. The applications of using the information from media is important to update us on news. I also think that responsibility plays a role into becoming a critical thinker base on the individual itself.
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DeleteI have pretty the same opinion with Azmine, that nowadays media makes us become critical thinkers in order to see the truth. What is pity is that the biggest part of the world society prefers just to belief what media says to them
People use media in our everyday’s lives— facebook, twitter, instagram, blog etc. Media is influencing how we live. We read news from newspaper, TV and the Internet, but there’s no way to know that the information is true. People who create media could be exaggerating facts, so consumers like us should be able to analyse and evaluate the media. Learning media literacy allows us to apply critical thinking skills as we always have to be conscious of what we’re consuming. Moreover, media is mostly where we get information nowadays, so we need to know the media literacy in order to understand the world.
ReplyDeleteWe can get information from the same topic but have different perspectives. Some source could be true some source might not be true. People really need to learn how to distinguish and analyze the information.
DeleteI agree with your opinion of we need to be able to analyse and evaluate the media is essential in our life. We can't just believe in whatever is reported on TV news of Facebook, or we can make wrong decisions or further misguide other people.
DeleteIt is so true that social networking as a type of media influence people overwhelmingly nowadays. We live with media as well as were formed by the media. People extremely rely on the media as a part of the life, and people have to question themselves whether the messages is reliable or just a joke. People have to have the ability to determine the credibility of the information.
DeleteSo true! I think, nowadays we are becoming critics more and more: we have to always analyze data in order not the be fouled. On one hand it is very skillful - to recognize the truth and lie. On the other hand, we cannot believe anything from the media, because we initially try to categorize information "what is true" and "what is not true".
DeleteMedia is constantly being interpreted different by individuals and what guide lines are there to guide us into our belief. The critical thinker of mix emotion and logic allow us to be so open to both sides, seeing the benefits and the non-benefits. We definitely must interfere the trust between the media's information and perspective of others as both can be told differently to the power of language.
DeleteNowadays, people rely on all forms of media, such as Facebook, TV news, radios, to receive any kind of information. They base their actions and opinions on the information they receive. With media literacy skills, people are able to get information and other people’s opinion more easily than ever. But with all the information from various resources, people, especially the youth, are required to have the ability of questioning the credibility of sources and thinking about the differences of their own opinions with those of others. This is when people start to apply their critical thinking skills to what they receive.
ReplyDeleteI agree with this. Mostly for teens, they don't have enough knowledge of credibility on the world. It is very easy for them to get misunderstand on the informations they get from the internet. I think that is why in the early school year, most of the teacher would teach them the ability on media skills.
DeleteI believe that these exact reasons are why it is so important to question the validation of what influences us, what makes us want to be who we want to be, do what we want to do, etc. What we learn will definitely make us understand our own thoughts better.
DeleteI totally agree with you, we have become so dependent on media that we mostly believe everything that is posted.people need to start to question what they read and particularly when they read it on internet because everyone has access to it. so even if media has advantages of having a lot of information to gain knowledge, there is also information that are not useful for it and this can made us have a wrong understanding of the topic if the information is not reliable.
DeleteAs you said that people are easily getting information&others opinion than ever.It's an advantage for youth to have an opening and wild world.But it's also a threats for youth to get mislead by others. So for the reason, Self control ability and critical skill become deep into youth's life during the time Media literacy as two sides nature.
DeleteToday, the use of media becomes a major way for us to get information. We use the media to learn the latest knowledge and the though of other people. In the meantime, we can be inspired by the media. This is why it is so important for us to understand the media literacy; with the improvement of technology, television, social network and other new innovation make the world of media become more convenient and we can get the information faster. In the meantime, we have to learn how to respect other's opinion and learn how to give them feedbacks without any bias or personal emotion. With the right attitude, we can gain the correct information from the world of media.
ReplyDeleteBut if internet or all these different kinds of advanced medias already bring us the security that we won't really identified by other people. How could make sure that everyone will have a correct and positive attitude on other's opinion?
DeleteI do consider the two different sides for this topic. First of all, none of us can really decline that the media literacy skills really bring people today a lot more convenient to express feelings and acquire knowledge. The advanced protection on the internet also provides us a safer environment to express true feelings without being found out the identification. But on the opposite side, the media literacy also overthrows a huge field of traditional ways of media transferring. For example, people nowadays more like to write on blogs, wechats and twitters that replaced the old ways as letters or postcards. The more convenient and faster speed really bring a little meaningless of all the media transfering than before.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you but I personally think that as the world is evolving everyday, people tend to use the most useful and effective way to communicate as well as to gain knowledge. However, your opinion about the negative side of media is so right too.
DeleteTeaching about media and its effect and power is important for critical thinking, because begin able to understand the information given to you instead of believing everything that someone posts on a blog or says on TV could be dangerous. It used to be commercials where smoking was healthy, that is dangerous information that could lead to health issues. There have been many researches about the effect media have on people, even though it could be untre people tend to belive it. Media is just like gossip, just becaue you hear it dosent nessesarly mean that every bit of it is true. Being critical of knowledge given to you by even “credible” source would not hurt you, but believing everything you read might be.
ReplyDeleteI totally agree with what you're stating here. I do believe that the media has both good and bad side effects. It's good that it makes our life much quicker and easier with just one click of a button. However, if we depends too much on the media, it can leads us to troubles before we even know it.
DeleteWe live in a world were we are surrounded and influenced by media. Thanks to the great 21st century advances in technology, specifically in the ones which have to do with media, it is every time easer and faster to get involved with the media. Because it is so easy to be in contact with a great number of media messages, it is a great tool for teachers to use them an make the students really analyze what the messages really mean. In the same way, it is a great tool because there are articles or other media messages about any topic that you can think of and in the hands of all the students. It’s a way to see other perspectives about related topics and for the students to get the best from these perspectives and be more open-minded.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you, media has evolved and spread so rapidly, also it can get us all sort of information that we will need but we also need to take in consideration when we find some information is that we need to take in question if the source is reliable, if the information is true. Because as you said we get easily influenced by media.
DeleteAnthony pointed out a very good point about being open-minded and see it from other perspective. Because according to educators mastering media literacy could help us engage question critically and answer it critically as well. By make students learn media literacy make students be a critical thinker.
DeleteI agree with you, in the media we are able to find so many kinds of information so as the same topic analyse in different ways and from various viewpoints. As a result media is a really useful tool for educators and it can be use in different areas.
DeleteThe humanity's communication has evolved rapidly since the introduction of internet; hence the standard of literacy has also enhanced to a whole new ground. As people's dependence on technologies such as cell phone, computer, and the internet becomes heavier, the ability of a person to access into those tool becomes more essential. For such reason, the capability of a person to evaluate sources, websites, and in general: information on the social media, is required by the society. Hence, educators, teachers, and parents are deeply concern about their successors's ability to winnow intelligence on the public media due to the fact that the public communication web does not only contain information that helps a person in a positive way but also contains falsely or even harmful intelligence. Disregard of the negative points of the web communication, the technologies is a fast way for people to respond to each other, and therefore raises controversy arguments that make people to think more critically.
ReplyDeleteI agree with your argument. There are 2 sides to everything: the good and the bad. We should keep in mind that there are dark side of the internet that we do not go their
DeleteI do agree with both of you. Media plays an important role of gaining knowledge and it also is one of the most useful method. However, we should not become too dependent on it.
DeleteI agree with you over the increasing reliance of people on the media. It is of great importance that people should learn to be literate in media in order to discern between unreliable things and reliable things and evaluate its extent of right and wrongness. Learning so helps people to apply their thinking skills to look at problems in the right way. Thus, people can make the right decisions based on that. However, what it offers to us is the connectivity that really brings us together. Therefore, i think everything needs to be considered from both sides.
DeleteMedia is becoming increasingly popular and nobody can deny its impact, either in positive or in negative ways. Some examples consist of Facebook, instagram, twitter, TV etc. One drawback of media is that the information can be biased and unreliable. How can we know that? Learning to use media literacy is one of the answers to the previous question. Really, general public have to be literate in media so that they can learn to analyse and select the appropriate information that benefit them. By having media literacy, people can apply their critical thinking skills such as questioning, examining the author's opinion and his/her credibility on a wide range of issues that are posted on the internet. Thus, people may get better at understanding the social problems in right ways.
ReplyDeleteAgreed. The impacts are huge. We can never know what is true or not! It's so true that learning media literacy helps us a lot in real world. Once we think critically, we have better understanding at the social problems!
DeleteThe advantage of public media is that it allows people to compare sources of information and draw a conclusion on deciding which to believe. It also allows people to be informed of the most recent news and social issues, which are not informed punctually by books or any other forms of traditional media.
DeleteMedia Literacy is dictating the 21st Century culture. There are a variety informations that we can get out of the media in all kinds of forms: online news reading, radio stations, etc. Almost everyone in the world rely on the media since it is just simply make our lives way too convenient. Thus, nowadays educators recognize the power of the media and decided to sustain the next generation's ability to wisely use the media. In addition, educators builds the essential skills for the next generation as they see the benefits and the responsibility that comes with media.
ReplyDeleteThe use of education by using media literacy may help students to engage more on critical thinking. The students may receive knowledges from a wide range of sources, and evaluating those sources may help them to develop a critical thinking.
DeleteIt also encourages students to build good sense of judgement, since so much information is received from media source, students need to take their time to select the right information to believe in and wonder why should they believe in this to strengths their own faith and value in the knowledge.
DeleteHaving the literacy skills helps students understanding the importance of determining the creditable messages from the mass of media. Thus, it is extremely paramount for educators building literacy skills for the next generation from media as a median of education, and they had a huge responsibility and impact on the students.
DeleteIndeed, we are very dependent on media, which is why I'd like to highlight the importance of media literacy. Lacking such skills will limit ourselves from engaging with sources of knowledge from around the world.
DeleteI think it's important that people understand how powerful media is becoming. It is an amazing tool we have- being able to find information in a just a short click on your computer, smartphone or Ipad. The Internet can also be used to learn new skills such as critical thinking, especially the youth can learn this particular skill. Just like the youth has grown up with the access to Internet and all the information there, they have also grown up with thinking critically with what they're reading because of the big amount of information. I think the internet is going to develop, and it's going to be a big part of our lives for a long time. Therefore; I think it's just as important to learn how to use the internet, as it is to learn how to think critically about what you're reading.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Victoria because the internet is a tool we have been growing up with and know how to use to our benefits. Being able to find information in only one click guides us into the right directions of learning.
DeleteDuring the classic Ancient Greek period Plato always criticized a group of people called Sophists who pretended clearly know the true knowledge and only deal with facts. They misled bunch of citizens during that time. Nowadays,Media disseminates information and messages with a lightning speed. Also I believe that some media persons just like sophists from Ancient Greece. So that learning how to protect ourselves from wrong and misleading information become important,and critical thinking skill become obbligato during our daily life. It doesnot mean that we shouldn't trust other but means that we should own our own faith and uneasily get shaked.
ReplyDeleteGwendolyn reveals the fact that the spreading of incorrect informations by media literacy. With a single touch on the screen, an information may be spread in seconds. This forces the readers to build up a critical mood of thinking to evaluate the sources, which is a reason why this sort of literacy may help to develop a critical thinking for readers.
DeleteLike the example you provided, there are still lots of people like the Sophists are spreading false information through media for whatever purpose they have, I agree with your point that it's crucial for us to protect ourselves from being misled by those false information, but also not to distance ourselves from receiving new information.
DeleteGwendolyn mentioned a good point. To be a Critical thinker you not just blindly criticize the text and doubt the source. You have to absorb the knowledge that is true and question the erroneous idea. All to all, this point might take you to another standard of critical reader.
DeleteThere is no doubt that "media messages are constructed"(in my opinion), they are all purposeful, for instance, advertisements for products, musics (I mean those protest musics) , movies which try to entice audience. So, there has to be just a way in order to recognize, evaluate and analyze these wrong and rights. For example, when I was a child, I was kind of gullible and used to believe anything but I do not believe the cartoon of Tom and Jerry and its silly things. Nevertheless, with the existence of media literacy, applying critical thinking skill does not always work.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you at the point that media messages are made for certain purpose. And when we analyze them, we need the to understand not only what is written in the message, but also why this message is written.
DeleteI think we learn better when we apply new media to our study, because new type media interact with us more than old school media like book, newspaper, etc. For instance, if you was researching a specific subject it is more effective to research by internet than by book because we have to evaluate the source, be more critical when choosing and reading sources. If you compare researching by internet to research by book, you only need to skim through and look for ideas to support your thesis that is already in the book. We don't interact with the text that much while on the internet we need to compare sources to know which is valid. However, we should not be too depended on the new media because all media are constructed and it is the tool that we create to help us better our life not shape us to who we are.
ReplyDeleteI agreed that nowadays everything has already been modernized, including the way we somehow connect our media into our study. Media really helps us at most of our study time, with easy access and unlimited sources it has really been a priceless tools in this 21st century world that we live in. But again, as an academic person we need to act and think critically of how we are going to use these tools to our benefit. Things such as plagiarism and unconstructed media messages could be really dreadful for us.
DeleteThe world is build up on media nowadays. Everyone uses technologies in order to communicate with society, get information and even develope skills. Media help us to understand the world better. It makes us to think sometimes. For example, when we can not get any information from TV or print media we always use internate as a storage of information, opinions and knowledges. Media provide us information, which makes us to think more critically and use our brains. Media are an important source that provide us current events from all over the world.
ReplyDeleteI agree that media has the power to give us thousand of informations and knowledge, but people also need to learn how to filter most of the "facts" that media provide us.
DeleteI believe that media nowadays is the biggest influence in todays generation. Therefore, the leaders of our future generation, the teachers, have more than valid reasons to educate the learners on how to interpret or contribute their opinion to a wide range of people who will be able to reach this information. The way everyone expresses their thoughts on every sort of subject, varies from each and every individual, and so the educators of this generation and all the next to come will certainly favor all students in teaching and adapting their minds to criticize not just the opinion the writer has, but also the techniques used to express and validate this opinion to a large number of people.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Maria when she points out the future leaders and even the future of our generation. It's important to learn how to interpret and contribute their opinions, as its the only way that they can try to be less affected by the drawbacks of media. Critics are always necessary, and it doesn't mean that they aren't constructive, critics can have a positive or negative side, and its up to the critical thinking skill to choose which path the individual should take in situations.
DeleteI think Maria is making a good point on saying that because the future leaders on our and the next generations have to have knowledge of the impact of the Media on people and how everyone can express themselves with it, and because you can express yourself in different ways, teachers have to know how to evaluate each student.
DeleteHi Maria! You have a really good point! Media have power enough to influence people to act as they wish. Therefore, we need to be careful and have those TOK moments when we get these informations. Nice point! Thanks for that!
DeleteTwenty-first century is an era of media: Comparing to the past, we have more variety of tools to receive information from others: such as books, newspaper, television, and most importantly, internet. So it is essentially important for the younger generation in modern time to learn media literacy: We could receive countless messages everyday, which makes it more important for us to apply critical thinking to the imformation in order to evaluate their credibility and liability. Media are powerful, and as technology proceeds, they have greater influence on our society. If it is used in the right way, it will benefit our society, like ALS Bucket Challenge made people have the awareness of the decease and tried to understand it. However, if it is used in the wrong way, it can harm our society. By applying critical thinking and consider different point of views from other parties, we will be able to receive the information that is as neutral as possible without being confused and lost in the huge amount of messages and information.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Kevin that media can be good in terms of informing and educating us but excess and bad use of it could also harm us. Critical thinking is important when being influenced by the medium and learn to moderate it.
DeleteI agree with Kevin because media now a days have fast transmission around the world so it is possible for anyone to access it. People can also post thing, create thing; sometimes they are correct, sometimes it isn't. So keep in mind that there are bad side to every good thing.
DeleteWith the introduction of the internet, we are more connected than ever. As such we have access to a ton of information. Being media literate allows us to expose ourselves to various sources of information on the internet, as well as understanding the complex messages hidden within (such as propaganda, advertisements, etc.) By being exposed to different sources, we are able to compare and contrast, forming our own opinion and judging based on the facts we see. We are also able to share what he have discovered, by creating our own forms of media (This blog for example). In conclusion, media literacy allows us to be exposed to knowledge, discover new things, and then share this knowledge with anyone.
ReplyDeleteFrom Vern's point of view media literacy can help us to exposed messages. Internet took place to help us too, by providing sources that we can look for as reference. By knowing media literacy we can share our own opinion where everyone can see it and be appreciated. But he's point of view lack of why educators thinks that media literacy could help us in order to achieve critical thinking in wide range of areas.
DeleteI agree with the opinion of Vern because as the development of the media, we need to be more MODERN so that we can have our own opinions about a specfic problems. Literature, Math and so on are good but not enough to create a human.
DeleteI totally agree with your statement. Media (in my opinion) is the number 1. source of obtaining information. Especially on a global scale. A good example you included, is that within media, you can always create something new - Like this blog.
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Being media literate allows us to be exposed to various sources of knowledge, and by comparing sources allows us to think critically and reflect on the knowledge obtained. Moreover, by sharing what we have learned, we enable ourselves to be engaged with present issues, such as politics, economics, sciences, etc.
DeleteThe world is evolving everyday, every hours, every seconds and media has become an important part of our daily life. Nowadays, most of our works require computer or the use of machines and the ability to use them is necessary. People should have media literacy because of its helpfulness. Media literacy helps us to save time, to find information easier and even to connect with other people to share ideas as well as knowledge. Instead of wasting paper to write something, people can create media on the Internet and this can helps to save lots of tree. People can also analyze and evaluate media quicker and more comfortable. That's why I believe in the usefulness and effectiveness of media literacy
ReplyDeleteI agree that media does accelerate our living speed and makes things simper sometimes, and it's one of the reasons that modern people should learn the skill of media literacy, otherwise others may grow much faster than you. Through media source, we gain knowledge in a more convenient and comfortable way, as i do not need to go to library but simply click a button to get information; however, people need to enhance senses of discretion too.
DeleteI do support the idea that media literacy is an effective and engaging way to apply critical thinking skills to a wide range of issue. In a world with such development of internet, we may receive many information from online database, compare to the traditional ways of perceiving information, the media literacy may be more effective. For instance, if the reader search a topic of interested online, this reader may communicate with other readers with similar interests and share more ideas, which helps to development a wide range of skills. But there're many drawbacks about the media literacy, it is much more easy to spread incorrect information and rumors with, with that, the readers need do develop critical thinking to evaluate the sources.
ReplyDeleteScarlett made an awesome observation regarding to the drawbacks of media that I haven't thought about it, as the way that literacy can also be affected by the media in the way that information and rumors are mislead or false. Furthermore, I agree with her arguments of support, I also think that it helps to develop a wide range of ideas as you can find people with the same interests that you, connecting you to the wider world.
Deletethe specific example you provided above gives us a really clear mentality of media literacy.Yes from the positive part,every one can see that how intern ate and those media blow up our thinkings and share our mind with others.From this way, I totally with what you mentioned that media literacy is an effective and engage way of our social life.
DeleteAs a student in 21st century, it should be our basic skill to master media literacy. Media literacy is ability access, analyze, read, write. To think it again these skills are important for our study. Without those skills we can't fully reach our capacity to understand or follow the class. If we master media literacy we can be a critical thinker in answering any answer from any subjects, we can access and analyze the question to break it down to parts so that we can easily understand it. Many educators also believe that media literacy helps students engaging and interactive to the question, and make students become more critical about the question they asked. Media literacy also help students in understanding a complex message that they encounter, for example in TOK class, we discuss about "to what extent does way of knowledge check on our incentive judgments?". That is now a hard question to understand and by mastering media literacy could help student to cope with such question or message. Therefore in our learning process, we all should also master the skill of media literacy in order to ease your way into critical thinking.
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ReplyDeleteMedia literacy is essential for us to understand any type of text, whether is an informational text or just a text with the purpose of entertaining. In media you can find all sort of information and also write any kind of thought so educators can use media and media literacy to help their students to understand different topics. As in educational matter, in any subject we need to read and in school if we are doing homework we will normally use the Internet (media) and look for information needed. We depend on internet so much.
ReplyDeleteWhenever we read a text in media we get an overview of the topic of the text so the more you read the more practice you have in critical reading; depending on the type of text we read the skill will improve. With all the different media we get used to read and so our critical reading always gets a little better but also it depends on the kind of language that people write on.
Meifa brings up some good points of the internet and text guidens, we dont just read becaue the teacher say we have to, but if we find an interesing article that cathes our attention the possibility is high that we read it. Also we learn the difference between Logos, Pathos and Ethos without even realizing it. We critically think who is the writer, what is his point, what does he argue?
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ReplyDeleteMedia literacy has become more essential over time, with the technology advance. Literacy before was the ability of reading and writing texts such as books or a letter, but today literacy has evolved more into media literacy where the types of it have increased. Some examples of media literacy are television, internet, magazines, books, newspapers, radio, music, and so much more. It is crucial now to be able to interpret, analyze and evaluate the media for several purposes, such as advertisements and education. Media is definitely engaging for several purposes and it is effective too mainly because there are media everywhere. Many people read the newspaper in the mornings, most women read magazines, listen to the radio or music when going to work/school, watch television in free time, read books as hobby, and most importantly all these are available for whenever we need it: in the cellphone. It is easily accessible and engaging because most people carry smart phones everywhere. When knowing how to use media for any purpose, moderately, then achieving goals (purposes) will be easier. One example can be the news through radio, television and the internet; they often exaggerate too much but people are influenced by it and it is up to each person whether they want to believe it or not. For the recent three days, I've been reading several articles about the "Odile" hurricane that was approaching the coasts of South Baja California in Mexico. I was reading this because my family went to that beach for vacations and they had to face it. I was reading articles, going into Twitter for recent updates and more because the communication was cut and couldn't contact my family. These medium helped me to be informed about how bad it was after the hurricane but then my family told me that everything was so exaggerated because the airport that was supposedly "really damaged that had to close it" and it was perfectly fine. Most people in the hotel listened to the people in the hotel and stayed there without food, water or electricity and the tourists who didn't believe and got out could get back home. This doesn't mean that we shouldn't believe and/or trust in media but if we think critically, then we can decide whether to be totally influenced or not.
Strong appeal to emotion is surely something that the media like to use whenever there is anything can be categorized as disasters (such as the hurricane you mention!) . It seems like this exaggeration is aimed at our emotions so that we get more emotionally attached to the different mediums. Can't blame them that, though! :)
DeleteAs the trend of the technology is rapidly increasing in 21st century, mass of media is overwhelming and become more important than before. The education begins to apply technology as a media for educating. Students start to receive any kind of sources and information from the ocean of the internet. According to the trend, students have to have the ability to analysis and evaluate the media. After one has the literacy skills, people start to learn and understand the knowledge of any subjects from all media.
ReplyDeleteEducation started to evolve around media and technology, so as our real world. All the sources from the internet that students could get to are not all reliable, so I absolutely agreed that we need to be able to analyse and evaluate the media. And that helps us understand and start thinking critically.
DeleteGood points Kevin!! To be honest, knowing if yourself is doing the right thing with the media show if you had think critically as well.
DeleteMedia has been a "need" throughout the years, how your media literacy skills is has determined your competitiveness. After having the ability of evaluating media and analysis insert your personal point of view, the information no longer belongs to media it become your own knowledge and thoughts.
DeleteToday, media literacy has been a great influence of how the way people think critically. It is proven as the 21st century leads us to a high-end technology that really makes our life easier. With different kinds of way to develop knowledge and our reliance to many forms of media nowadays, we somehow become critical of what others are writing or stating. Analyzing text, interpreting knowledge, stating opinion, asking questions and many other things has never been this easy. Therefore, educators realize that media literacy is an effective and engaging way in order to apply critical thinking.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you William. The media influences us in ways we might not even realize, and it's a great skill to know how to think critically about the content of what you're reading. As William said, analyzing different texts has never been so easy, and that's why it's important to stay focused and be aware of your critical reading.
DeleteFollow the development of the society nowadays, we can see that media is getting more and more overwhelming the world. It almost control over everything. This is why many schoold in many states choose media as mthods for them to teach students. They know that if they let their students to get in touch with the media, the students will eventually develop the ability of critical thinking. They know what are happening in the world and give out their own opinions to assess the problems existing in the society. This type of studying get in thouch more with the society and more realistic.
ReplyDeleteI agree with this statement! I think it's important that schools chooses media as a teaching method; so that students are more interested in school and not feeling that the school is caught up with the society.
DeleteI agree with you that media help student to develop their ability of critical thinking. Media is an effective way to apply critical thinking skills and investigate further knowledge and to understand media we need our critical thinking skills.
DeleteWe are in a century where everything is global and information is everywhere: Facebook, TMZ, BBC News, even Instagram has the power and ability to keep you informed about what is happening at the other side of the world after 5 minutes from the occurred situation. Nowadays, things happens so quickly and anyone can have their 15 minutes of fame and that is why the media literacy has to keep up with the "competition"... If something happens and you are signed in any type of digital media, you are going to share that much more faster than some newspaper or magazine. In the last years, everything is getting smaller and smaller, fitting bigger and bigger achieves. Why buy a cd when you can have thousands in your Ipod? Why buy and carry a book, when you can have thousands in your Ipad? Why buy a magazine to know about Kim Kardashian's wedding, when every information you want is in the internet, plus video? People say that there is only garbage in the internet, because they do not want and do not try to find the good ones. Samuel Johnson once said: "...knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful." If everyone use their knowledge with good intentions and try to open people's eyes for the issues that the world has, we will evolute even more.
ReplyDeleteI think one important point Vitoria made was how quickly the information is spread all over the world within minutes, making the world connect as one and bringing people from different continents more close to each other (not in a physical way). Also a great point she made was that the internet can offer a lot of contents and not all of them are useless, you are able to find good and helpful information that not always is "garbage".
DeleteNowadays media literacy is an important part of our lifestyle because we can find it in everything that surrounds us, like TV, radio, newspaper and the most common one the internet. All of the above provide us a big amount of information everyday and that´s why they help us to develop our critical thinking, for giving us enough information to compare, analyse and interpreted so as decide if we agree or disagree with them. Thus media literacy is being use for educators to develop the critical thinking of their student.
ReplyDeleteI think media literacy allows us not only apply critical thinking skills, but also develop them and shape our opinion on the different issues from daily life. Nowadays critical thinking skills are extremely important for youth and adults, because these skills help to make us democratic citizens of modern society. As we know, critical thinking is the ability to evaluate and analyze information and media literacy makes possible to access tons of information easily, that means we no longer have to read big books, wait for new newspapers or have long discussions with somebody in order to apply our critical skills, now we only have to open our electronics and find interesting information.
ReplyDeleteNowadays, with the developments of modern technologies, people need to deal with huge quantities of information from different sources and on various topics. This amount of data is many times larger than it used to be even just half a century ago. Media literacy allows to gather, analyze and apply all this information. That’s why it is so important in the modern world. Media literacy makes your brain work faster and more efficiently to keep up with the modern world’s rapid pace. It is really the skill of the 21st century.
ReplyDeleteI very much agree with your statement, specially ". Media literacy makes your brain work faster and more efficiently to keep up with the modern world’s rapid pace." Everyone in todays life want's get his/her work faster, perceiving news only from a newspaper get's boring at times. Today's media know's how to spread their messages in the best entertained way. For instance, to spread about the awareness of ALS, they found a fun way to interact with others, i.e, Ice Bucket Challenge."
DeleteI personally think this statement "media literacy makes your brain work faster and more efficiently" is totally right, but based on what I know from the definition of the media literacy, it is thinking critically, it means to think deeper, So, media literacy more focus on analyzing and thinking about stuffs and phenomena.
DeleteThe media messages can now widely apply to almost every area of knowledge in the 21-century. It can be delivery with many forms—Internet is the most comment and fast way for people to get first-hand media messages. However, the Internet are not only delivery the positive messages. That is why, I think, most of the early educators in U.S would teach their kids the importantly of media literacy. In that way student who with less self-restraint could recognizes and avoid those negative messages. In the same way, with media literacy students can write on blogs more professional and clear. All these skill can also apply to their critical writing since there is more unconventionally space on the Internet.
ReplyDeleteMedia has become familiar to everyone in the world. It is important for us to know how to write and read. Back to the old time, literacy is very precious and many people wish to have an opportunity to learn it and become literate. Nowadays, media has a big effect on the society and people's lives in education, work, social life etc. However, many do not know how to access, analyze, evaluate, and create media which is "media literacy". Media literacy skills are also considered the basic requirements in many places such as to obtain a job or in schools. In my opinion, media literacy is, somehow, an effective and engaging way to apply critical thinking skills to a wide range of issue. To know media is to understand it and its meaning which we will need media literacy skills and critical thinking skills to dig and search for informations and news.
ReplyDeleteI also think that literacy skills are becoming (something like) dead-or-alive matters as the world continue to evolve around the media. Basic education (read, write,...) nowadays has became universal. However, since our societies are stepping into a new era, media literacy should also be taught in schools so that the graduates feel more comfortable to the working environment.
DeleteMedia made our generation with infinitive access of the connected world, exposing everyone to tuns of informations all the time. Its more important than even to learn how to filter information, evaluate it and create a critical opinion about it. Media is becoming an extremely powerful and controlling tools nowadays, almost obligating our generation to look at it with careful eyes. On my opinion isn't just the amount of information that is leading us to a more critical thinking style, but also how we interpret ourselves and how we represent ourselves to the world by one click. So we also need to be aware of those literacy skills to be able to learn what should be exposed.Literacy can be engaging when becomes to media and connected world as is the way that we are learning to communicate and learn how to use it, therefore becoming easier to catch our generation attention.
ReplyDeleteI like the way you talk about how the media has an effect on us and also how we expose ourselves to the world. I agree that the connecting ability of the internet is becoming stronger than ever, and it's important to be aware while using the media
DeleteHi Hayara! It was such a good comment! I like your perception regarding media related to our generation. For sure the impacts of media on us are much different comparing to the past. I think you are completely right. You are also right when you say that we have to be able to learn what we should extract from the media because not everything is good for us. Thanks for the wonderful comment.
DeleteMedia literacy is basically the ability to analyze, evaluate different media modes, genres and formats. After reading Ms. Weeks paragraph, and also after searching around the web, I got a better understanding of what Media literacy really is. I especially found two topics very captivating. Firstly Media Education – who is all about learning about the media. Its main purpose is to develop teenagers to get a better understanding of what media is and it’s values. Theoretically speaking, there is a change in the development of teenagers view on media, due to the fact that we are entering a face where technology plays a large role in our daily life. Teenagers are actually watching more TV now than they do school, it also effect there sleeping. However technology also helps students to develop there skills and to think outside the box.There were also one topic I found very interesting – Language. As I have observed, language may be the building blocks for media. Media has several ways of communication, the usage of verbal and written language for instance. Nonetheless it also includes music, images and even particular camera angels that may effect the consumer’s emotions. For instance: In movies when there is a zoom in on someone face, you can clearly see there’s feelings/emotions/expressions clearly. This will also effect your emotions.
ReplyDeleteI definitely agree on you on how media, and especially TV (as you mention), is able to persuasively appeal to our emotion. I guess that's why they always have commercials in between dramatic moments in movies on TV.
Delete"Many educators have discovered that media literacy is an effective and engaging way to apply critical thinking skills to a wide range of issues."
ReplyDeleteTechnology has certainly made communication easier and faster. It has also made easy to access to a lot of resources. For example, books are also published in the ebook format and most of the newspapers have their own website and also offer a digital version of the journal.
If we compare to the traditional paper books, this new type of literacy spread by media is more dynamic and engaging: readers and audience can easily interact with the author.
Blogs and websites are a good example. Writers publish their articles on their blog and readers can share their comment immediately under the text. Other readers can also access to the comments, so it helps creating argumentative discussions between the audience.
To sum up, I think that media literacy is the best way to share our critics and appreciations to other people's texts, compositions, works, etc.
I agree your statement Lui gi, that "media literacy is the best way to share our critics and appreciations to other people's texts." Media has great power with both positive and negative effects. It has got really good connections that chain up and spread to great number of people. It is definitely the best place where one can achieve success and failure at the same time.
DeleteI'm 50-50 about your idea of media is "the best way to share" our ideas and comments. In my opinion, I think media sometimes can hurt many other people's ideas because anybody can comment in the media and there are a lot of negative comments that the media can't be able to get rid of those comments at all because there are too many to get rid all of them.
DeleteTherefore, I think it's not 100% the best way to share our thoughts in the media.
Media is very important in our life as we depend on it everyday for information about the world. It raises question as to whether the news can be trusted and be accepted as a knowledge for our own. We constantly think about it and have a "Harkness Discussion" among the people around you.
ReplyDeleteEven though it is not a true harkness discussion, there is unintentional discussion between families and friend. With that, we gain critical thinking knowledge on developing the slow progression of accessing the situation.
I agree with your statement Emeir. I definitely see a lot of potential in media. its a good source of knowledge. However its important to understand what's wrong or not. And by education, talking to family and friends we as humans can get a better understanding of whats wrong or right.
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From my point of view, media literacy has never stops improving and it will never stop giving us human being the information that we need. People tend to trust the media because it provides the quickest way to access to any type of information we need.
ReplyDeleteEven though it is a very good thing indeed but I think everybody is depending too much on the media, especially students. Just with one click of a button, they can access to any type of information they want. So even though I like that fact that the media can brings a lot of benefits to many people, like unlimited amount of information and very time consuming, but I think that it can bring harms to us as well.
Students aren't going to libraries to get resources anymore but instead they all logged inside the internet to get those resources. Imagine if there are 10 students access to the same website to get resource, wouldn't their work will all be the same? Plagiarism tend to happens a lot recently and that's all because students thought that nobody will going to find out where they can get those information from. Also students sound be aware of the right and wrong information because there are some websites that cannot be trusted.
In conclusion, I think it's great for students nowadays to use media literacy to do their work, but just keep in mind to stay away from doing the wrong thing.
Media has widely influenced the way people grasp information about the happenings around them. And today's media has got a really good knowledge about how to spread their message and to whom. So to cope up with this new trend, educators have to expand their way of teachings and must introduce the ways to the 'new young youth' about this social advancement. In today's time, newspaper is not the only place from where we can get the latest news, there are so many places like Facebook, twitter, radio, magazines, where one can find the same news which is conducted in different style. It depends on the preference of person to person, in what way they wan't to get news. Thats why educators must include ways to interact with news, in their teachings.
ReplyDeleteI'm assuming that eclectic features of information given by media fostered the media education, media literacy; such diversity of media lets people to critically think about social issues.Also, social issues that are trivial even becomes ubiquitous in the blink of an eye. Although some would disparage such phenomena for its demagoguery use, it already became a irrevocable social convention. Furthermore, although such assertion that media might cause such ambivalent consequences holds ring of truth, it is wholly dependent on a observer. This is the part, in which critical thinking is needed. Every sources of media can be interpreted differently and is open to discussion;therefore, it's readers who examine whether the information given is plausible or erroneous.
ReplyDeleteIn sum, because media can provide people an abundant source and also let them examine and analyse the information, media literacy serves as a impeccable source in which people can critically think in diverse ways
Media literacy is a skill set that has become increasingly required for anyone with a connection to internet. While the concept can be applied to more general parts of the media, internet is where it excels. At the internet, and especially internet media, people can post nearly whatever they want about who- or whatever they want. This is where people's ego and desire for attention can feed itself. With media literacy, one gets the ability to think critically and preserve themself aganist persuasion and bias.
ReplyDeleteThere is a saying that states: "You find what you look for" - which is highly relevant for people who have not yet develloped their media literacy. People use the internet to search for both questions and answers for everthing in their daily lives. If the answer they are looking for is satisfying both emotionally and rationally, people tend to accept the information regardless of fallacies or lack of appropriate sources. This type of information is characterized by a positive answer written in a very logically appealing way. An example on the internet is spirituality. If you find your way through Google to websites about spirituality, you will find websites telling you that you can "acheive this" and "achieve that", written in a way that is accepted by our logic and past experiences. What one may forget is to identify the reliability of the author - is he some hippie living in his mother's basement or is he a monk who has acheieved total power of the mind?
Media literacy is all about being able to think beyond your logic and emotion, in order to recongnize persuasion and manipulation aimed at our mental inadequancies.
I found your view so similar to my own, but this is great, the best thing I have read about media literacy, I totally agree with your conclusion, your last paragraph. media is created to persuade us, that's it and there is no denying that media literacy has to be made to think beyond our logic.
DeleteI agree with you, especially on the unconventional space on the internet. It's intriguing that such idiosyncratic space has become so prosperous that it's viewed as a common place.
ReplyDeleteWe usually refer to the phrase "21st century" as the period of time in which our lives is strongly influenced by the mass media. Tv shows, radio broadcast and most significantly the Internet is becoming more universal than ever, and with such great change comes great comfort and convenience. We are having free access to a huge variety of information on the internet, and there is no needs to stressfully skimming through every line in a ten pounds, hard-back book which barely promises anything exclusive. However, the amount of information available today is, one the other hand, creating chaotics and confusion since there is they are usually lack of credibility. Therefore, the ability to access, analyze, evaluate,….is highly important and needed to be providle as universal as possible. In return students will gradually achieve a prepared set of skills: the ability to annotate, evaluate the information available, a wide range understanding of different issues … All in all, I firmly believe that the giant collection of knowledge on the internet is a wonderful evolution of the human being, however in order to exploit such advantage requires basic skills of critical thinking and judgement.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Henry about the fact that if we want to understand about media, we have to have skill to research about the media. We need to be a critical thinker and apply those skill (analyse, evaluation) to fully understand
DeleteInternet has been one of the most powerful tools in the 21st century. People search for information from the wagging of the straw to extremely complicated issue on the Internet. Since Internet has become a necessity of modern people, Evaluating and the analyzing skills has become extremely important. Learning how to get the gist within the text and understanding the author background lead you to another demanding standard as a internet surfer. The course of media literacy helps every student to be a master in understanding mass media. All to all, Media literacy leads us to be a critical reader, not only making our opinion based on our background and experience, but also doubt anything that is possibly false.
ReplyDeleteIn the past, when internet still haven't been invented, people use texts in paper to communicate with people in a long distance, for example book, letters and news paper etc. Therefore people should be able to read and understand, otherwise we won‘t be able to connect with each other knowledgeably. However, as the improvement of technology, nowadays we have internet, television, cell phones etc. we started to have many different kind of communication media, and as this become more popular, people start became lazier, because the message that we receive are are complexed now, the words that we use become not formal any more, different slang words or internet terms were formed. The elder people might be confused with all these new internet concept, be we, as a new generation, being able to understand the media world has already become a essential thing.
ReplyDeleteOn the other hand, even though having complex message might seems to be a lazy thing, be if we try to see it differently, it actually help us get and understand some information much quicker. Unlike any old school media method, which might take us a long time read and so to understand it. Also, using nowadays media as a communication method is also seems to be a more interesting to do. comparing with books in the past. That's why educator would think that it's more effective and engaging for people to think, it's faster and more interesting.
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ReplyDeleteIn 21st century the amount of information provided by mass media became enormous, and it's often shows very subjective points of view or just not supported by any evidence. For modern man it is very important to identify information that is important and reliable from what is called "information trash". Media literacy teaches us how to distinguish truth from false and have a real picture of situation (if we talk about world news for example). It's a very useful skill if it's developed enough, and it can also be used in real life. Imagine, if some emergency action occurred, but you weren't a witness and all you have is other people's words which can be totally different, such ability can really make your life easier.
I have mentioned just a small aspect of media literacy and the areas where you can apply it, which seemed the most important for me.
From the ancient, the Chinese invented paper to write on it. Then human revolution began, technology rapidly grows as well. People then started to put knowledge into computer, then they start to save all the data into the Internet. Since the born of Internet, people can sit in their rooms and then access to most everything that on the internet. We used to carry lots of books to class, but now, people just need to carry an Ipad that contains all of your books, convenient and sufficient . Today article use many metaphor and allusion in the way their written in order to convey message, readers have to be critical thinkers in order to understand what the author try to say. I remember that there was a article about a tribe named "nacirema". That was a really harsh criticism about this tribe. But later, I realized that the author wants to criticize about American. If you are not a critical thinker, you can't get what is under the author argument or allusion he or she want to accentuate.
ReplyDeleteIt is true that the world has developed in different ways. It is possible to talk about how the cars became faster, how internet became more efficient and how connection became easier. These developments brought also the improvements of media which are basically the increase in range and impact in society. Media are very powerful today that can change someone's opinion easily. Therefore, it is important to anyone to be able to understand media and critically analyze them. Nowadays, various media want to influence people's decisions and it is important to take care. Also, media nowadays work really fast, so it becomes hard to follow all of them. However, media literacy is extremely important for people nowadays since you are able to talk to people about different aspects of the world. Therefore, people should be connected to media as far as possible and analyze them critically.
ReplyDeleteWe currently live in a time age of technology unlike 3 centuries ago when they were in the age of stones. We live in 21st century where people which whom range in all different ages relie on internet. Our life as students its self is aided through the help of technology. We download textbooks, PDFs and notes on internet instead of making them by hand. Instantly at this very moment were doing our homework online instead of getting the assignment by paper and doing it by paper. This is a big advantage, in current time, we are able to do much better for we can gain knoweledge from all the previous years from everywhere in the world unlike before when we would just gain the knoweledge from the teacher. Also typing is an amazing time manager because we can type more words more quicker, be organized and accurate unlike if we didnt by hand. This is effective in current time.
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Media is a really complicated subject with a lot of controversies. Learning how to understand media and recognize what is relevant and what is not can help to make sure that the information you take can be use as knowledge. We all have different interest; to be able to have a real debate about an issue or a topic it’s important to be sure to have understand the purpose of the article and to see how the real point of view of the author.
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You know what, the best way to learn things is by using old-fashioned and technological way, because both has advantages and disadvantages. There are downsides and upsides to every educational method. Thats why it is also important to learn History at school. Because nowadays its natural to kids to understand about technology.
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