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Media literacy is the ability to sift through and analyze the messages that inform, entertain and sell to us every day. It's the ability to bring critical thinking skills to bear on all media. It's about asking pertinent questions about what's there, and noticing what's not there. And it's the instinct to question what lies behind media productions - the motives, the money, the values and the ownership - and to be aware of how these factors influence content. Media Studies encourage asking the questions: Who is this message intended for? Who wants to reach this audience, and why? From whose perspective is this story told? Whose voices are heard, and whose are absent? What strategies does this message use to get my attention and make me feel included?
Media studies is also an overall term that incorporates three stages leading to media empowerment: The first ...
Parents and students are very unhappy with the public education offered to them by the government of United States. 51 percent of respondents to the latest Gallup Poll rated their community's public schools with a grade of C or less, and 66 percent said that local schools had either stayed the same or gotten worse in the last five years. The result...
Have you ever lost? It sucks, does it not? on the other hand is everything. I have found this to be true because you are praised when you win, and you are looked down upon when you lose. Winners get everything and losers get nothing, that is how I look at it. is what I believe in because it is what drives you to finish the job. I don't believe t...
, especially those using computer-generated visuals, have become the standard communication tool for businesses and government today. But most presentations that are designed and delivered aren't nearly as effective as they could be. They're usually a series of overloaded text slides read word-for-word by the presenter. Presenters who want to be su...
The infinity symbol represents something with no limit. reaches back to the ancient Greek civilization. The term infinity come from the Latin word infinitas meaning unboundedness. In math they treat infinity as if it were a real number, but not in the sorts of a real number. During the late nineteen and early twenty centuries Greg Cantor came up w...
"I have a student in my second hour class who is an idiot ." Students probably have never heard their teachers complaining about them in the halls. In contrast, a person could roam Jefferson and hear conversations about how terrible teachers are from every corner of the school. "I got an F- on the final but it's only because Mr. Doe* is a crappy...
