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How To Use This Guide
This guide accompanies the
CyberWise Guide to Media Literacy
 (which hopefully you just watched). If you are reading this guideonline then simply click the links within to access the material theyreference. You can also print this guide in order to have a hard copyon hand. Either way, we hope you find the information withinuseful. Enjoy!
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Hopefully you just watched the
CyberWise Guide to Me-dia Literacy video
! If so, then you know that technologyhas transformed the media landscape, and therefore thedefinition of media literacy has expanded. So while read-ing and writing remain essential literacy skills, the abilityto interpret and tell stories across all mediums is a prerequisite to beingtruly media literate in the 21st century.Here are two excellent sources for a definition of “media literacy.”
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 What is Media Literacy?
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The
National Association for Media Literacy Education
(NAMLE) providesthese
6 Core Principles
 for media literacyeducation. Media literacy education…
1. Requires active inquiry and critical thinking about the mes-sages we receive and create.2. Expands the concept of literacy to include all forms of me-dia.3. Buildsand reinforces skills for learnersof all ages… that necessitate integrated, interactive, and repeated practice.4. Develops informed, reflective and engaged participantsessential for a democratic society.5. Recognizes that media are a part of culture and functionas agents of socialization.6. Affirms that people use their individual skills, beliefs, and experiences to construct their own meanings from me-dia messages.
http://namle.net / 
The Center for Media Literacy
(CML) defines Media Literacy as:
"…a 21st century approach to education. It provides a framework to access, analyze, evaluate, create and participate with messagesin a variety of forms — from print to video to the Internet. Medialiteracy builds an understanding of the role of media in society aswell as essential skills of inquiry and self-expression necessary for citizens of a democracy."
http://www.medialit.org / 
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