{"id":1064,"date":"2018-03-05T23:49:48","date_gmt":"2018-03-05T23:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/lida100\/?page_id=1064"},"modified":"2018-03-05T23:49:48","modified_gmt":"2018-03-05T23:49:48","slug":"media-literacy-perspectives","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/lida100\/unit-4\/introduction-to-media-literacy\/media-literacy-perspectives\/","title":{"rendered":"Media literacy perspectives"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\" class=\"mw-body container\" role=\"main\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n<div class=\"panel\">\n<div class=\"panel-body\">\n<div id=\"bodyContent\">\n<div id=\"mw-content-text\" lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" class=\"mw-content-ltr\"><div class=\"panel iDevice\">\n\t<div class=\"panel-heading idevice-heading\">\n\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"pedagogicalicon\" alt=\"media\" src=\"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/lida100\/wp-content\/themes\/oeru_course\/idevices\/Icon_multimedia.png\">\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t<h2>Educating for media literacy<\/h2>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<div class=\"panel-body\">\n\t\t<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>In this extract from the Real Time interview with Bill Maher,      President Obama highlights the importance for a modern democracy of educating our children on media literacy.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"plainlinks floatleft\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425px\" height=\"355px\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wQ7uFhjgPYk?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><br style=\"clear:both;\"><\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"panel iDevice\">\n\t<div class=\"panel-heading idevice-heading\">\n\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"pedagogicalicon\" alt=\"activity\" src=\"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/lida100\/wp-content\/themes\/oeru_course\/idevices\/Icon_activity.png\">\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t<h2>Activity - Contemporary definitions of media literacy<\/h2>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<div class=\"panel-body\">\n\t\t<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p><b>Purpose<\/b><br \/>\nThe purpose of this activity is to conduct a general online search for contemporary definitions of media literacy,  comparing the emphasis on various issues for different age groups and to post a short critique of the Aspen definition below.<br \/>\n<b>Aspen definition of media literacy<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Media Literacy is the ability to <i>access<\/i>, <i>analyze<\/i>, <i>evaluate<\/i> and <i>create media<\/i> in a variety of forms<sup id=\"cite_ref-1\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"#cite_note-1\">[1]<\/a><\/sup>.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Stimulus resource<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.medialit.org\/media-literacy-definition-and-more\">Center for Media Literacy<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Tasks<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li> Consult the stimulus resource\n<\/li>\n<li> Conduct a general online search for definitions noting differences in emphasis for youth and adults.\n<\/li>\n<li> Construct a table listing important issues of media literacy for youth and adults, for example:\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<table class=\"oeru1 table table-striped\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th>Youth<\/th>\n<th>Adults<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><i>Access<\/i>: Strategies for managing age &#8211; appropriate access to online content<\/td>\n<td><i>Access<\/i>: Knowledge and understanding of new forms of peer-produced media distinctly different from traditional print media.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Prepare a short blog post (200 words) evaluating the Aspen definition of media literacy:\n<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li> Cite the Aspen definition in your post\n<\/li>\n<li> Consider the following questions:\n<ul>\n<li> Is the Aspen definition of media literacy still relevant today? Justify your opinion.\n<\/li>\n<li> Are different definitions of media literacy required for different contexts? If so why.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"References\">References<\/span><\/h2>\n<ol class=\"references\">\n<li id=\"cite_note-1\"><span class=\"mw-cite-backlink\"><a href=\"#cite_ref-1\">\u2191<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"reference-text\">Aspen Media Literacy Leardership Institute (1992) cited by <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.medialit.org\/media-literacy-definition-and-more\">Center for Media Literacy<\/a>.<\/span>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><!-- \nNewPP limit report\nCPU time usage: 0.070 seconds\nReal time usage: 0.112 seconds\nPreprocessor visited node count: 265\/1000000\nPreprocessor generated node count: 1238\/1000000\nPost\u2010expand include size: 6993\/2097152 bytes\nTemplate argument size: 3996\/2097152 bytes\nHighest expansion depth: 7\/40\nExpensive parser function count: 0\/100\n--><\/p>\n<p><!-- Saved in parser cache with key wikiedu-mw_:pcache:idhash:182156-0!*!*!*!*!2!* and timestamp 20180305234943 and revision id 1034077\n -->\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"visualClear\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n<ul class=\"pager\">\n<li class=\"previous\">\n            <a href=\"\/lida100\/unit-4\/introduction-to-media-literacy\/defining-media-literacy\">\u2190 Previous<\/a>\n          <\/li>\n<li class=\"next\">\n            <a href=\"\/lida100\/unit-4\/introduction-to-media-literacy\/analysing-texts\">Next \u2192<\/a>\n          <\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<footer>\n<br \/>\n<\/footer>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>References \u2191 Aspen Media Literacy Leardership Institute (1992) cited by Center for Media Literacy. \u2190 Previous Next \u2192<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1056,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1064","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/lida100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/lida100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/lida100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/lida100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/lida100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1064"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/lida100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1065,"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/lida100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1064\/revisions\/1065"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/lida100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/lida100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}