What is Media Literacy?
The poster for the school yearbook sale has been printed on shiny cardstock, 11” by 18”, and tossed upon the walls of stairways and halls throughout the school. Students wander by, slow their lopey, late-for-class stroll to squint at the posters. Throughout the day, clogging clusters of students muddle the hallway: everyone wants a peek. Year after year, the format of the poster’s message is renewed, refreshed, rotated to pitch to my students the benefits of a yearbook purchase. It’s all rather squeaky-clean, right? Everyone wants one, and everyone gets one. Innocent and benign, yearbooks are gentle mementos of middle school and its three wacky years, and these posters are mere messengers of their imminent arrival.
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Excerpt From: "Media Literacy: Three Perspectives from the Public Schools" by John Stewart. Scribd.
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