Selasa, 04 Maret 2008

Media Education

Name : Nurasiah Hilmi
NPM : 06211210284
Class : IV/B
Subject : Media Pembelajaran Bahasa Inggris

Media comes from medium, a way through which one can communicate with the other. So letters, posters, emails, public meetings are forms of media. There is also mass media whereby you communicate with a large number of people, it includes TV, News, internet
Media education is the process through which individuals become media literate - able to critically understand the nature, techniques and impacts of media messages and productions.
Media education acknowledges and builds on the positive, creative and pleasurable dimensions of popular culture. It incorporates production of media texts and critical thinking - decoding, analyzing, synthesizing and evaluating media - to help us navigate through an increasingly complex media landscape. That landscape includes not only traditional and digital media, but also popular culture texts such as toys, fads, fashion, shopping malls and theme parks.
Media education isn't about having the right answers: rather, it's about asking the right questions. Because media issues are complex and often contradictory and controversial, the educator's role isn't to impart knowledge, but to facilitate the process of inquiry and dialogue.
This role of the teacher as a facilitator and co-learner in a student-centered learning process is not only the model for media education; it has also become an accepted new critical pedagogy. Today, the chief challenges are to locate and evaluate the right information for one's needs and to synthesize what one finds into useful knowledge or communication. Media education - with techniques of critical thinking, creative communication and computer, visual and aural literacy skills at its core - is a key part of a 21st century approach to learning.

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