Double Entry #5

               Literacy is the ability to understand, but when it comes to media literacy, it’s a lot more than that. It has less to do with understanding the point of the article, but more with the credibility of it. It can sometimes be hard to know whether the source is credible or not, but there are a lot of ways to find if it is.

               “More than half the adults surveyed in Great Britain were not able to use search engines or databases at a basic level.”-Teaching Media Literacy

               This quote scares me. It’s hard to imagine that such a large percentage of people don’t know how to use search fields. No wonder people are so afraid of the next generation getting “lost” on computers when most of the people who say that are computer illiterate. I don’t think that we actually need to teach media literacy, only because now, most of the students have already picked up on it in their own homes. I believe that if we continue to teach how to find credible sources outside of the internet, the students will pick up on the fact that the same rules apply online.

 Grandma doesn't understand the internet