Does media literacy require student media production activities?
Vote yes if you think that young people cannot become truly critical viewers until they have had experience making photographs, planning and organizing ideas through storyboards, writing scripts and performing in front of a camera, cropping an image, designing their own web page, or reporting a news story. According to this view, media literacy is incomplete unless students get a lot of experience “writing” as well as “reading.” Vote no if you’ve ever wondered what students are actually learning when they make their own videos; if you are concerned that media production is impossible in the under-funded schools that are typical of American education; if you’ve found that media production activities require too much time for 45-minute periods, more grownups than the 33-to-1 ratio of American classrooms, or more skills than can reasonably be expected from an overworked, underpaid, middle-aged teacher. In American schools, media production is often the province of the non-readers, the low
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