“As more an more parents demand their children receive some media education in school, and as more and more school districts realize the benefits of teaching children how to become active media consumers, more and more teachers will be teaching media literacy in schools.
But how do you go about teaching something as intangible as media literacy if you’re a teacher? Media literacy isn’t like math in which 1 and 1 equals 2. Media literacy certainly isn’t like science where a test conducted by one person or organization will have the exact same outcome as if the same test was conducted by someone else. And although media literacy shares a lot of the same outcomes as reading (the understanding of signs and symbols and how they create meaning), media literacy requires a bit more thought and introspection on the student’s behalf…” (Retrieved on August 12, 2008 from http://www.understandmedia.com/art026.htm).
