Linda Bettinger: Utah has a curriculum designed to teach media literacy, but the Legislature won’t fund it.
In this, Dec. 20, 2017, photo, Kathy Malatesta, a teacher librarian at Brookfield, Conn., High School, talks about source citations during the freshman Digital Student class. The required class teaches media literacy skills and has the students scrutinize sources for their on-line information.The recent Social Media Regulations bill passed by the Utah Legislature is troubling on multiple levels.
As a professionally trained library media teacher, I taught my younger students to analyze pictures in picture books for their messages. Then, as they got older we looked at commercials and talked about tricks and hooks and special effects that message creators use to promote their products. Throughout the entire medial literacy experience in grades K-6 we asked important questions: Who created this media message? What do they want me to believe? What tricks are they using to get my attention? Is what they are saying true? What are they not telling me? Is there another point of view or information that I should consider? What effect does this message have on me? Do I want to buy this game, try this product, adopt this idea or point of...
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