My students need 23 media literacy books including Ethics and Digital Citizenship, Political Campaigns and Political Advertising: A Media Literacy Guide and Understanding Freedom of the Press.
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Our students are at the final step in their education before becoming adults and venturing off into the world. They come to our school from various ethnic, political, religious and economic backgrounds. Yet, they all have one common goal: learning.
Our students want to be prepared for the world they will inherit.
They are concerned about their environment and want to be active in their communities. They trust that their teachers will provide them with the skills they need to become good citizens and productive people.
My Project
The past year has brought us a plethora of "fake news," "alt-truth," and "post-truth" discussions that can feel overwhelming and daunting even for educated adults. Students search Google looking for news and entertainment without much thought as to the veracity and credibility of what they are viewing. Images pummel them from the Internet, their smartphones, television and on the streets. Sifting through the media mess requires tools for navigation.
If we want our students to be able to discern fact from fiction, reality from fantasy as they partake of any media, we need a variety of media literacy and media-focused books in our school library to make such skill-learning possible.
Yet, our library has NO media literacy books for either students or teachers to check out and use. With the addition of the titles above, our school library will be better equipped to supply materials to curious students and teachers wanting to add media literacy to their curricula. They will provide patrons with ways of critiquing and evaluating media so they don't get "caught up" in the insanity caused by over-saturation and the constant reversal of facts and lies. Our students need media literacy education and materials more than ever in order to navigate and evaluate the dynamic, and often uncertain media world they live in.
More than half of students from low‑income households
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