Why Media Literacy?

 

Media literacy is, shall and will always be involving the ability to access, analyze, evaluate, and create media. The media mentioned here shall include among others:

(i)   television, (ii)  radio, (iii) Internet, (iv) newspapers, (v)  magazines, (vi) books, (vii)                billboards, (viii)               video games, (ix) music, (x)  and all other forms not mentioned here.

I have tried here to answer ‘The Why Media Literacy’ question in the following lines:

(i)           The importance of information in society and the need for lifelong learning has increasingly become significant in that we cannot be able to lead to the next step without media literacy.

(ii)          What about the increasing importance of visual communication and information in day to day experience in and outside class room.

(iii)         Media helps in shaping individual perceptions, beliefs and attitudes about the seen and the unseen.

(iv)         Media has a great influence in any democratic process in or outside classes.

(v)          There is simply a high rate of media consumption and therefore there is need to integrate it in learning/teaching process.

In my ASSURE lesson plan I focused on reflection of bending of light. Below are some of the images you would want to explore.

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