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Panel Discussion: Media Literacy
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Rishika
5:37
Hello and welcome to a panel discussion on the opportunities and challenges facing media literacy today. Our panellists are Lalitha Vasudevan, Professor of Technology & Education and Director of the Media and Social Change Lab at Teachers College; Ioana Literat, Assistant Professor of Communication, Media and Learning Technologies Design; Yoo Kyung Chang, Lecturer, Communication, Media and Learning Technologies Design; Emily Bailin Wells (Ed.D. ‘18), Adjunct Assistant Professor, Communication, Media and Learning Technologies Design; Michelle Ciulla-Lipkin, Executive Director of the National Association for Media Literacy Education; and Jessica Wolff, Director of Policy and Research at the Center for Educational Equity.
5:44
Michelle Ciulla-Lipkin starts the discussion by speaking of the need for media literacy or skills that need to be built from the youngest to the eldest learner. "We realized that we need to build it from high school, then we realized from middle school, and now I spent two days in Chicago to bring this for 0-8 age group," Michelle says.
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Jessica Wolff, Director of Policy and Research at the Center for Educational Equity, adds: "I think there is a broad consensus about having media literacy too as an element of civic participation. When I think about it as part of the right to education, I think about how we can use education policy to ensure students have access to this in schools."
5:50
Ioana Literat talks about what encompasses media literacy. She notes: "We are working on the fake news game, but media literacy is very much more than fake news. Media literacy is going beyond fake news but they are not interchangeable at any stage."
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5:52
Agreeing with Ioana on the same, Yoo Kyung Chang says that one of the interesting things she finds while working with the youth is that they have a very “firm belief” about news literacy.
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Michelle comments: "If you think about the purpose of media literacy education, it is all as important as other education.
And we see civic engagement and media literacy connected in a way."
"I agree with Michelle, media literacy in the broadest sense should let students be prepared for civic issues. There should be a strategy used across the curriculum," Jessica adds.
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Lalitha Vasudevan poses a question to the panelists: "Why does media literacy matter to you?"
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For Loana, it boils down to reaching out to young people. She explains: "I was always interested in online youth participation. Peer groups are influential to politics. We need to learn from what is happening in online grassroots spaces; we need to learn from them in order to reach out to them before its too late."
6:06
Emily talks about how she found her way to Media Literacy through pop culture. Reminiscing her college days, she recalls how she didn't know that she could pose critical questions to the media.
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For Michelle, the cause is personal. She says: "Media literacy to me is truly the most important thing given the impact of media we have today. When I was 17, my father was killed in a bombing and that came to us on screen, and my entire life was changed, but the role that media played in that is something to note. So, I use this personal story as a reminder that how urgent all of this is."
6:10
She continues: "Whether it's an Instagram story or anything else, media is very personal and nothing is more important than this. We are never going to go back to a scenario where politicians don't use social media...the game has changed and the way we reply to messages has changed and we are not going back."
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Lalitha poses a very important question yet again: "What has been the advantages of using the modes of engagement that you all have been doing from your own perspectives?"
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Media literacy must be about all of its stakeholders, according to Ioana. "It is important to talk with them instead of talking about them," she adds.
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Jessica similarly adds that in her work, it was found that there are different groups of people, from academicians to educators, who are working on bringing different sectors, different parts of the education sector together to work collectively.
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