Media Literacy

Media literacy is a broadened understanding of literacy that includes the ability to access, analyze, evaluate and create media in its many forms, together with the capacity to reflect critically and act ethically when engaging with information and communication technologies. As an educational framework it aims to help learners think critically about the messages carried by television, video games, photographs and audio, and to recognize how media shapes what people believe is true. It equips people to identify sponsored content, recognize stereotypes and propaganda, and weigh the benefits and risks of media use across work, civic life and everyday activity. The approach also treats learners as active participants who create and share their own messages responsibly, not only as consumers of messages made by others. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/