– Playing with Media Literacy – Michelle Solomon, Neil Andersen, Carol Arcus, The Association for Media Literacy: @msolomonteacher

The second workshop is hosted by The Association for Media Literacy

The 8 Key Concepts of Media Literacy

• Media texts construct reality
• media texts construct versions of reality
• audiences negotiate meaning
• media messages have economic implications
• media texts communicate political and social messages
• form and content are closely related in each medium
• each medium has a unique aesthetic form

use of memes in media literacy

our task – to create a meme using  Mematic – a free app you can download

@A_M_L_

What questions can be asked once students ask their own questions?

you can get more information on media triangles here – http://www.mssolomon.com/node/11

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