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Why is media literacy important?

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We know why it is important to be literate. People who know how to read can learn about the world. They understand that the marks on the paper have meaning. What is media literacy? We don’t need to know how to read to be able to watch television. Going online requires reading. Is that all […]

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Short attention spans = fast news

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You click on the TV at 5am, 5pm and 10pm to catch your local news broadcast; your laptop is out, books are in your lap, coffee on the table, dinner being cooked, you’re constantly distracted by something and of the hour of news coming out of your TV you catch five minutes. As our attention […]

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Social networking: fear or future

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Technology is an ever-growing and ever-expanding field in human existence, but it seems to repeat itself. I’m not saying that technology is cyclical, but that it moves across a line reaching into the future and sometimes there are certain patterns on that line that tend to repeat. Specifically, I’m referring to how people never know […]

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