What is media literacy?
Julie Smith states media literacy as the “critical questioning” about the media we use in our daily life (Miller & Smith, 2021). Education in media literacy is intended to allow more people to understand the use of media. It is interesting that media is changing every day, and media literacy is about analyzing various media and learning from them.
Why is it important?
It is important because not many people fully understand media even though they use it every day. In the interview, Julie Smith says that there is a mess of information on various media and from different information sources, and people tend to choose the information that they believe but not what is critical (Miller & Smith, 2021). News media presents news that people want to view but not what people should view. People should have the ability to know what to believe and what to not. Media literacy will allow people to have a critical understanding of what media is and how can it change our daily life.
Why is it dismissed?
Media is blended in our day-to-day life, and it is commonly used that we ignored its importance. People see what they want to see so that they never debate the correctness of what they see. Media literacy is not widely taught nowadays, and people didn’t recognize the importance of learning it.
Why should you aim for varied views but the factual consensus in your PLN?
Everyone has a different opinion on the same thing, and a person will only see one aspect if he is not open to other views. We make a conclusion to an incident based on our previous experience, but people have unique experiences; therefore, they can see things that we cannot see and hold a different opinion than us. Learning new knowledge is about being open to new things and open to other opinions.
Reference
Miller, J. & Smith, J.(2021, June 6). EDCI 338 – media literacy with Julie Smith. YouTube. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57r3-aEnci0.
November 20, 2021 at 8:57 am
Hi!
I appreciate your thoughts on media literacy this week. I like how you added the part about different experiences, and how it is important for others to broaden their perspective and be open to learning new ideas. This is imperative for the online world and back and forth communication. Media literacy is so important, and you convey this message well in your blog.
November 20, 2021 at 5:13 pm
Hi Anna,
I agree with you about the last question you have explained. Everyone is unique, so that not everyone has the same view of different things based on their experience. People need to “being open” to other’s opinions.
November 20, 2021 at 11:58 pm
Hi Anna,
I really like your version about diversity, we should never have a single perspective on everything, and consensus is not always a good thing. However, I would object your view on how people are not aware of the importance of media literacy. I think we do, and in fact, many academia have been focusing on studying public media 1.0 and 2.0 for a long time. The challenge of media literacy is how we could better use it.