Media Literacy

Media literacy is the ability to identify different types of media and understand the messages. As you navigate the news, social media, and other sources of information, you will need to analyze, evaluate, reflect, and check sources. Media literacy is a skill that will help you become an informed citizen.

First thing’s first: what is media literacy? In our first episode, Jay breaks this question down and explains how we’re going to use it to explore our media saturated world.

The speed with which information spreads now, however, has created the ideal conditions for something called circular reporting. Noah Tavlin sheds light on this phenomenon.

Critical Thinking encompasses six vital skills: problem solving, analysis, creative thinking, interpretation, evaluation, and reasoning.