3. 1. Using concrete objects and materials actually being used everyday together with common items for home, school and community makes learning real and true-to-life. 2. Infrastructure like tall buildings, houses and bridges can be reduced in size and details are viewed in the form of miniatures or models. Spacecrafts, rockets, satellites and modern means of transportation could be in the form of models.
4. 3. Microorganisms and other minute organs are best studied through a microscope or hand lens. 4. Great world events and technological breakthroughs such as landing on the moon could be recorded by a powerful cameras and films are projected as in video machines.
5. 5. Instructions that could be carried out through reading are facilitated by the availability of professional books, magazines, journals and national and international publications. 6. Information about locations, directions, sizes and shapes of landforms could be presented in replicas like globes, maps and mock-ups.
6. 7. Internal organs could be examined by using equipment like scanners, ultrasound gadgets and endoscopy machines. 8. Simple lessons on art production are illustrated through famous paintings, artworks and sculptures. They are helpful in developing the values of nationalism and appreciation of outstanding works of artist.
7. 9. Literary pieces in the form of poems, outstanding essays and novels are used for motivation purposes and in developing love for reading and fondness for books. 10. Electronic devices and equipment like computers, cellular phones, VCD and DVD players afford valuable technical and scientific assistance.
22. EXPERTS ON “ MEDIA EDUCATION”, “ MEDIA STUDY” OR “MEDIA LITERACY”?
23. MEDIA EDUCATION a broad description of all that takes place in a media-oriented classroom, whether the subject matter is English, history, geography or science. MEDIA STUDY occurs when schools or teachers organize specific courses or units to study the media. Chris Worsnop
24. MEDIA LITERACY is the expected outcome from work in either media education or media study. The more you learn about or through the media, the more media literacy you have. Media literacy is the skill of experiencing, interpreting/analyzing and making media products. Chris Worsnop
25. MEDIA EDUCATION is an ongoing process, which can develop and evolve. MEDIA LITERACY is a quality, like a tan, which can be achieved. e.g. "Every day, my media education is getting more powerful." e.g. "Yo! Check it out! I am media literate!" Neil Andersen
26. MEDIA EDUCATION encourages a probing approach to the world of media: Who is this message intended for? Who wants to reach this audience, and why? From whose perspective is this story told? Whose voices are heard, and whose are absent? What strategies does this message use to get my attention and make me feel included? Jane Tallim
27. MEDIA LITERACY is the ability to sift through and analyze the messages that inform, entertain and sell to us every day. It's the ability to bring critical thinking skills to bear on all media - from music videos and Web environments to product placement in films and virtual displays. Jane Tallim
28. MEDIA LITERACY is an informed, critical understanding of the mass media. It involves examining the techniques, technologies and institutions involved in media production; being able to critically analyze media messages; and recognizing the role audiences play in making meaning from those messages. Rick Shepherd
29. MEDIA LITERACY seeks to empower citizens and to transform their passive relationship to media into an active, critical engagement - capable of challenging the traditions and structures of a privatized, commercial media culture, and finding new avenues of citizen speech and discourse. Wally Bowen
38. 13. It is the storytellers of our generation 14. It help to prepare students for life in the society 12. Education for future 11. To eliminate the growing privatization of information
41. 3. Faculties of education must hire staff capable of training future teachers in this area. There should also be academic support from tertiary institutions in the writing of curricula and in sustained consultation. 4. In-service training at the school district level must be an integral part of program implementation.
42. 5. School districts need consultants who have expertise in media literacy, and who will establish communication networks. 6. Suitable textbooks and audio-visual materials, which are relevant to the country and/or area, must be available. 7. There must be appropriate evaluation instruments suitable to the unique attributes of Media Studies.
43. 8. A support organization must be established for the purposes of workshops, conferences, dissemination of newsletters, and developing curriculum units. Such a professional organization must cut across school boards and districts to involve a cross-section of people interested in media literacy.
44. 9. Because media literacy involves such a diversity of skills and expertise, there must be collaboration between teachers, parents, researchers and media professionals.