What is Media Literacy?
Center for Media Literacy defines media literacy as “a 21st-century approach to education. It provides a framework to access, analyze, evaluate, create and participate with messages in a variety of forms – from print to video to the Internet. Media literacy builds an understanding of the role of media in society as well as essential skills of inquiry and self-expression necessary for citizens of a democracy.” (http://www.medialit.org/media-literacy-definition-and-more/)
ALA Resources
- Media Literacy @ your library: http://www.ala.org/tools/programming/media-literacy-your-library
- ALA and the Center for News Literacy @ Stony Brook University worked with five public libraries to adapt existing media literacy training to serve the needs of public librarians and the communities at:
- Skokie Public Library (Illinois)
- Huntsville-Madison County Public Library (Huntsville, Alabama)
- Estes Valley Library (Estes Park, Colorado)
- Auburn Public Library (Maine)
- San Diego Public Library (California)
The learning and prototyping report http://www.ala.org/tools/sites/ala.org.tools/files/content/Media%20Literacy%20%40%20your%20library%20-%20Final%20Report%20Dec%202018.pdf
- Media Literacy Education in Libraries for Adult Audiences (ALA) https://www.ala.org/tools/programming/MediaLiteracy
- Media Literacy in the Library: A guide for library practitioners (ALA)
https://www.ala.org/tools/sites/ala.org.tools/files/content/%21%20Media-Lit_Prac-Guide_FINALWEB_112020_0.pdf
Resources
- Activities, lessons, case studies and blog posts to develop students’ media literacy skills: https://newseumed.org/medialiteracy
- Resources for students learn to analyze, evaluate, and communicate in a world with countless media sources and constant access to powerful computers: https://www.edutopia.org/topic/media-literacy
- Media Literacy Education to Counter Truth Decay https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA112-18.html
- Media Literacy in an Age of Fake News:
Prepare your users for the pitfalls of misinformation (American Libraries magazine) https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2019/11/01/media-literacy-in-an-age-of-fake-news/ - Exploring Media Literacy Education as a Tool for Mitigating Truth Decay (Rand Corporation) https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR3050.html
Readings
- Lateral Reading: Reading Less and Learning More When Evaluating Digital Information: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3048994
- From American Libraries, “Fighting Fake News: How libraries can lead the way on media literacy”