Week One

Week One

Critical Media Literacy- What is it and why do we need to know about it?

We are going to be learning all about something called critical media literacy, so first of all we need to know what it is!

Critical media literacy is made up of 3 words:

CRITICAL
MEDIA
LITERACY

Each word is important and tells you something about the term as a whole.

Work your way through these tasks, make sure you follow each one in order

1. Watch THIS video about critical thinking
2. Watch THIS video about media 
3. What does being critical mean? Contribute to THIS document
4. What is media? Contribute to THIS document
5. What is literacy? Contribute to THIS document
6. What does critical media literacy mean? Contribute to THIS document

Your Learning intentions are this week are: 

• Learn the key terms: critical thinking, society, media, fact, opinion, perspective, intent, knowledge production
• Understand what it means to ‘critically examine’ a source of information
• Understand the term ‘critical media literacy’ in the context of literacy and ICT

Please reply with a comment stating your success criteria (how you are going to show me that you have met your learning intentions (I have done one already as an example to help you).