Grant Wrangler
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Government Calls For Schools To Teach More Media Literacy
This is an excerpt from a story about the media violence study as published in the Journal of Adolescent Health.
URL: http://www.medpagetoday.com/PublicHealthPolicy/PublicHealth/tb/7531
In an accompanying commentary, Maria R. Worthen, M.S.W, of the U.S. Department of Education, said schools should do more to teach children how to use electronic media safely.
"Television is a constant presence in most youths' lives and not just outside of school," she pointed out. "Most schools use television or video programming as an instructional tool, and therefore have a responsibility to guide students in the thoughtful consumption of electronic media."
"Schools should ... promote media literacy so that youth can view the unavoidable presence of violence in the media with a critical eye," she added.
"Educators themselves will need to become more tech-savvy, familiarizing themselves with the most popular means of electronic interaction used by students. Two ways to do this," she said, are "exploring social networking sites and establishing a dialogue with students about their electronic media habits."
Frank Baker
media education consultant SC Writing Improvement Network Consultant
Consultant: ETV/Radio of South Carolina
fbaker1346@aol.com Phone (803) 254-8987 Fax (803) 254-0508
http://www.frankwbaker.com 2007 "Leaders in Learning" Recipient
Forwarded from MEDIA-L by BJ Berquist
