Media literacy teaches people how to think. Critical thinking is very much needed in our new world of social media. The curriculum makes the connections between reality television and the world of social media. With social media we communicate with real people, however there are often elements of acting, of portraying how we want to be perceived by the world. Like any type of media, we can’t take what we see as an automatic truth. We need media literacy skills to understand and decode social media messages.
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