Media+Literacy

Digital literacy is the term used to refer to being able to understand and interpret the many forms of technology encountered every day. Being literate means to be able to use the modern forms of media. As they evolve into new forms, those forms demand new literacies.

Years ago, being literate meant being able to read and write. Reading was largely a passive activity, sometimes enhanced by a discussion of the material, or a letter to the author or editor. Both of those responses took hours if the participants were in close proximity, days if they were not.

Today’s media allows instantaneous and socially based interaction. As soon as a webpage or blog goes online, readers begin commenting, adding thoughts, pictures, music, and links to other sites in their responses. All of these responses, blended together, become part of an online media collage. [|-Suzanne Pitner]

Suggested by Peter Bell**
 * __Readings & Videos on Media Literacy (for teachers)__

Bill Moyers, "Consuming Images (PBS Video, 60 mins.) "The Ad & the Ego" (video) "Ways of Seeing" (four part video series)

Stewart Ewen, **Captains of Consciousness** Stewart Ewen, **Consuming Images** Naomi Klein, **No Logo**