Great article I found at during today's Powerful Voices Open Door session...
“How do we prepare kids for living in a society where almost all their information and entertainment comes to them through a screen?” asks Renee Hobbs, Ed.D., director of the Media Education Lab at Temple University in Philadelphia.
The answer: We teach media literacy, which trains children to think critically about both the overt and subtle media messages that wash over them every day. Media literacy — the ability to access, analyze, evaluate, and produce communication in a variety of forms — is growing in importance in schools across the country.
Click on the side link for additional resources including...
5 Media-Savvy Questions That Kids Should Ask
- Who created this message?
- What creative techniques are used to get my attention?
- How might different people interpret this message?
- What lifestyles, values, and points of view are in this message? What was left out and why?
- Why is this message being sent?