Goal

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Goal

• A media literacy program must teach citizens the
  critical thinking tools they will need in the
  world.
• Your challenge is to produce a website that
  educators can utilize as they teach his/her media
  literacy class.

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The term global citizen has been proposed.

• What does global mean in Global Citizen?
• Global could mean
• Planetary a world citizen (presumptuous)
• Well-rounded or widely read. Someone who is
  holistic in his/her appreciation of the world and
  the people in it
• Adaptable (like a travel plug) someone who
  could fit into various positions, locations,
  countries and cultures

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Mission Statement

• Using information and media awareness strategies,
  this media literacy program aims to produce a
  responsible, globally aware person. Adopting the
  characteristics Oxfam attributes to a global
  citizen, this media program seeks to produce a
  person who
• ? is aware of the world and his/her place in it.
• ? appreciates diversity.
• ? understands how the world works.
• o Socially, culturally, politically,
  economically, technologically, environmentally
• ? recognizes social injustice.
• ? contributes to the local global communities.
• ? is willing to act and be responsible for those
  actions.

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Mission Statement(Continued)

• Toward that end, we offer the following media
  literacy curriculum complete with suggested
  readings and multi-media material, general
  discussion points, and exercises for review,
  adaptation and/or implementation.

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Media Literacy Goals (From Seminar Day 1)

• To teach
• Access
• Understand
• Analyze
• Evaluate
• Produce media/production of media

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Media Literacy Curriculum Teaching Modules

• Using the general media literacy goals as
  teaching modules we will construct a media
  literacy website with the following headings
• ? Access
• ? Awareness (Understand)
• ? Assessment (Analyze/Evaluate)
• ? Appreciation (Understand)
• ? Action (Produce)

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Access

• Examples
• Personal
• Governmental (including legal)
• Societal
• Technological
• Too much/None

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Awareness

• Examples
• Self
• Others
• Inequalities
• Indoctrination (Social/Religious/Political)

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Assessment

• Examples
• Context
• Uses/Benefits
• Analysis/Evaluation
• Skepticism

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Appreciation

• Examples
• Culture (taboos)
• Society
• Politics
• Media Systems

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Action

• Examples
• Media Production
• Message Construction/Deconstruction
• Audiences (public, government, corporate, grass
  roots)

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Conclusion

• Fringe Thinking
• Use my media
• Interactivity
• Personalize
• Keep me engaged