Topic > Media Literacy And Numeracy - 635

The development of tools that enable students to think critically, actively participate, analyze and evaluate information transferred from the media is one of the most crucial problems of the 21st century, but Around the world rates of media literacy and numeracy have grown rapidly. According to Criticos (1997), South Africa was already ahead of the United States in formal media education before the fall of apartheid. It is the teacher's responsibility to provide children with media literacy, Hobbs (1994), and therefore it is essential that a senior stage teacher is media literate and has basic numeracy skills as it is an essential step in solving the literacy problem media and mathematics. problem.There are some common similarities between the education of our modern teenagers and that of the teenager of a century ago, yet you can really see the significant differences between the two generations. In the old days, students believed everything their teachers told them. In fact, students were not allowed to argue about the statements and were almost too scared to disagree with their teachers, but nowadays teachers need to be media literate. There are many different media tools and every day children and adolescents are tormented by complex information and images every time they open newspapers and magazines, when they turn on the television or radio and connect to the Internet; they read, see, hear and encounter this problem. These complex information and images provide young adults with an already structured and fictionalized life (Ertürk & Gül 2006: 2) and therefore a senior phase teacher must be aware of how to use media correctly in his presentations to show students how to use media effectively. A teacher... half paper... a tool and if there are no teachers to teach students the ethics of connecting to the Internet and other multimedia tools, that will help protect them from the cruel life outside. These crimes cover a wide range of activities that include cyber-stalking, phishing and pharming, spam, drug trafficking, cyber-hiking (some believe the missing Malaysian Air Flight 320 may have been hacked), and much more. Teachers can use different multimedia tools to engage the whole class during teaching and learning. Students can also use the media to search for information on different topics, relevant to everyday life situations in the news and daily events around the world. By using media, students are equipped with the knowledge, skills, and values ​​necessary for personal fulfillment and meaningful participation in society as citizens of a free country.