Media Literacy

According to the article, A Land of Readers, published in Educational Leadership,"Being media literate refers to the student's ability to understand the purpose of a given article, the choices an author made in the course of writing it, and the visual impact of the article's visual and textual components." What are we doing as educators to prepare students to comprehend today's literature and to reflect on yesterday's prose? Myriad forms of writing that students come across today include hidden agendas; are our students able to make informed decisions about the information they stumble upon and/or research? Do we model the process we as practiced readers use to identify deceitful written communication?