why is it important?

Media literacy has become an essential skill in the digital age. Education stakeholders should make it possible to make this skill accessible to learners by revising the curriculum to include ways to teach media literacy in schools as learners are quite exposed to the media one way or the other.

Ways in which media literacy could help learners: 

*Learn to think critically.  

 *Become a smart consumer of products and information.  

*Create media responsibly 

*Understand the author's goal