What is Media Literacy?
"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."
Here is a video to help explain it more ----> Media Literacy
Why is it important?
Media literacy is important because we know more about it. Many students have a better understanding when it comes to online media. Some ways they can help a student are, they learn a different type of skill which enhances their thinking abilities and creates participation in the classroom. They are able to relate to Media better than relate to assigned books. Perhaps reading "To Kill a Mockingbird" might seem boring to a student, but maybe reading the same book as an e-Book like the Kindle can maybe make the student interested in the book.
At the end of it all, it is once again up to the teacher to decide what to teach young students about media literacy. This article, on media literacy helps how a teacher can teach the students. There are many great ways to go about it and just take some time to read if you are looking into becoming a future teacher.
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