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Media Literacy Education requires active inquiry and critical thinking about the messages we receive and create. (National Alliance for Media Literacy Education, Core Principles, 2007).

Our children live in a media saturated world. It is no longer sufficient to confine our discussions of literacy to the printed page in textbooks. We must expand our definition of text to include all forms of media if we are to address the issue of literacy in the 21st century.

It has become imperative that our children not only learn to access the technologies that are so readily available to them (e.g. the TV, the computer, DVD/CDs, digital cameras, cell phones, etc.), but that they learn to critically examine what they find.

In this 21st century, our children must also learn to apply critical thinking skills and skills of expression so that they may become effective communicators whenever they create their own media messages.

The problem solving skills and communication skills that we have tried so hard to teach our children using the traditional textbook must now be applied to all the forms of media that are becoming so readily available to them.



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