Media Skills: Crash Course Media Literacy #11

Now that you have a solid understanding of the media landscape, it’s time to equip you with the essential skills for navigating it.

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Resources:

NAMLE on Media Literacy https://namle.net/publications/media-literacy-definitions/

Digital divide persists even as lower-income Americans make gains in tech adoption http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/03/22/digital-divide-persists-even-as-lower-income-americans-make-gains-in-tech-adoption/

The numbers behind the broadband ‘homework gap’ http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/04/20/the-numbers-behind-the-broadband-homework-gap/

McDonald’s: you can sneer, but it’s the glue that holds communities together https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/jun/08/mcdonalds-community-centers-us-physical-social-networks

Digital Na(t)ives? Variation in Internet Skills and Uses among Members of the ‘‘Net Generation’’* http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.462.7343&rep=rep1&type=pdf

Stanford researchers find students have trouble judging the credibility of information online https://ed.stanford.edu/news/stanford-researchers-find-students-have-trouble-judging-credibility-information-online

FCC net neutrality process ‘corrupted’ by fake comments and vanishing consumer complaints, officials say https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/11/24/fcc-net-neutrality-process-corrupted-by-fake-comments-and-vanishing-consumer-complaints-officials-say/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.d8b6a55f90f8

Teaching Adolescents How to Evaluate the Quality of Online Information https://www.edutopia.org/blog/evaluating-quality-of-online-info-julie-coiro

When teens create the news: examining the impact of PBS/news hour student reporting labs https://mediaeducationlab.com/sites/default/files/Hobbs%20-%20When%20teens%20create.pdf

London School of Economics EU Kids Online: September 2011 http://www.lse.ac.uk/media%40lse/research/EUKidsOnline/EU%20Kids%20II%20(2009-11)/EUKidsOnlineIIReports/Final%20report.pdf

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