Media Literacy

Media literacy means the ability to access, analyze, and critically evaluate media messages and understand the agendas behind them. To be safe when it comes to media literacy, you must be media literate by being thoughtful of the sources you are using and considering multiple perspectives before forming an opinion or sharing information with other groups. (Park, H., Kim, H. S., & Park, H. W. (2020).  Media literacy also helps people avoid being influenced by negative or false media messages that can affect their health, happiness, and social interactions. Media literacy can also foster civic engagement and democratic participation by enabling people to access, analyze, and evaluate diverse sources of information and express their opinions. For example, with Scoop.it, students use critical thinking skills to collect, evaluate, and analyze content; they may identify trends in discourse; they develop writing skills in original expression; and they interact, communicate, and publish to a global audience (Johnson, 2018).