Media Literacy is defined as “the capacity to access,
analyze, evaluate and communicate messages in a wide variety of forms”. This
blog post would be considered a form of Media Literacy, why? Well, because by
opening up my browser and logging into my blog I have accessed it, then I would
need to analyze the web page in order to post on the blog. That would be one
example of Media Literacy. However, media literacy is not only the ability to
create but also the ability to explore and evaluate credible web pages for
research.
To build on Media Literacy is my next topic,
URL’s and being able to recognize one from the other. URL stands for Uniform
Resource Locator and is a “designation at the end of a web address in order to
indicate the purpose and goal of the site. The URL is important all throughout
one’s education because it is a tool that allows us to eliminate and
distinguish where our information is coming from. For example, if I am writing
a research paper I would want to stay away from sites ending in -.com and look
for sites with -.edu or sometimes even -.org.
Since -.edu sites are educational sites and -.org are organization
sites.
Although Cyberbullying does not directly build
on Media Literacy it is important as an online user. Cyberbullying is defined as “willful and
repeated harm through the use of computers”. To me this definition is a little
bit outdated and might need to be reviewed seeing as cyberbullying can happen
not only from a computer but a phone or an iPad or even an iPod; Also, it only
takes one offense for one to be cyberbullied or for one to cyber bully a
person. I grew up in this technology-filled era we are living in and I can say
that cyberbullying is very real and will continue to be an ongoing issue if not
stressed and address soon.
Reference:
Maloy, Robert,
Verock-O’Loughlin,Ruth-Ellen, Edwards, Sharon A., and Woolf, Beverly Park
(2013). Transforming Learning with New Technologies. 2nd Edition.
Boston, MA: Pearson Education, Inc.
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