Media Literacy
Fergus Cassidy discusses media literacy in his column this week and makes the point that we really need to educate ourselves and our children on how to handle all the stuff that’s being thrown at us at the dawn of the information age.
It always struck me growing up that school was almost a TV-free environment. The teachers and the curriculum writers denied the very existence of a medium that was having a powerful effect in shaping the minds of their students.
So while we were busy learning how to analyse and decipher the great works of classical English literature we were left helpless without the tools to do the same for television.
Mark Waters marked time at 6:08 pm on November 23rd, 2004 .
