Many educators believe that with the growth of media and information technology, media literacy is just as important as - or even more important than - print literacy.
What is your position on the relative importance of the two "literacy's"?
What information from this chapter helps support your position?
First I would like to define the two types of literacy's. The media literacy is a process of analyzing, evaluating, and creating messages in a wide variety of media modes, genres, and forms. Print literacy is the basics. It is learning to be literate through reading and writing. Its the fundamental skills for a literate person. The book tells us that as teachers we need to learn how to expand our definition of literacy because there is more to it than just reading and writing down information. We have to be able to teach the students to learn the whole meaning from their assignments. I agree with the book because times have changed and the world is rapidly becoming more advanced. The children today are keeping up with the new technology and the basics are boring to them. I have gone over the chapter and gained a lot of valuable information that has made me realize that literacy needs to be expanded. There are many ways that we can develop literate students through new techniques that will make them understand the entire lesson. I have also learned about this change in some of my other education courses. It is great to see that they are teaching us the new techniques to use in the classrooms. The important part is to make sure that our teachers are actually taking this information in and doing something with it. It is time to make a difference in our children by providing them with the proper tools and knowledge to understand the material.
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