Quote- Media literacy in the past tended to focus on alerting students to stereotypes, advertising, and propaganda and on protecting them from undesirable influences. Today's digital media literacy encompasses many additional topics, from using search engines, to creating Web sites and online profiles, to participating in social networking.
Reaction- There is so much to do on the internet these days. When the internet first started to get popular, a lot of people were unsure and had mixed feelings about the power of it. Like social networking, everyone assumed that it was bad because you can see all of your information and you could pretty much pinpoint someone’s location. The privacy aspect of social networking is something everyone should use in my opinion, because it can come back to haunt you if you don’t. Most people now, when they think of the internet, they just think of social networking. That is one thing that needs to change in my mind. People should realize the unlimited resources and tools that can be used from the internet. When everyone realizes that, then that is when the internet will be used to its full potential. It will become more popular for school use, rather than just for research, such as a lot of things that we are learning in this class.
Link- 
Cite-
Jane, D. (2009). Teaching media literacy. Educational Leadership, 66(6), 84-86. Retrieved from http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/mar09/vol66/num06/Teaching-Media-Literacy.aspx
I love the cartoon, it ties in nicely with points that David made in her article. It is challenging to discern between opinion and fact in many cases. Many professionals are now using blogs, but so are amateurs. And anyone regardless of their level of experise can put up a Website that is official looking. A favorite ploy of marketing departments or public relation firms is to create a consumer resource site that appears to give unbiased reviews and has customer testimonials . Of course, the products they represent will receive glowing reviews and competitive brands will be put in an unfavorable light. Often they don't lie about a competitors product; they just purposely leave out pertinent facts which misleads the reader into forming negative opinions. We need to teach students how to identify such sites.
ReplyDeleteI really like your picture though. It is appealing. Nowadays, once we want to get some information the first thing we will consider is Internet, which is getting more and more unreliable. We should warn our students even our fellows about the another side of the coin, do do critical thinking before utilizing.
ReplyDelete