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FREE KIT
An introduction to media literacy concepts and skills. If you're new to media literacy, be sure to start here!
This kit contains seven printable documents (no media examples):
- Introduction: What is media literacy? How is it used? Why is it important?
- Media Literacy Concepts: Understanding media messages, our media system, and the role of media literacy in bringing about change.
- The Language of Persuasion: Forty common techniques media makers use to persuade us to believe something, do something, or buy something.
- How to Deconstruct a Media Message: Key questions you can use to “take apart” media messages to understand how they work.
- Looking Beyond the Frame: Why media literacy requires us to examine the context of media messages.
- Making Media: Resources for making your own media – an empowering and exciting way to build on media literacy and media activism skills.
- Media Activism: Dozens of suggestions on how you can change the way you use media, challenge media messages, and build a more diverse and just media system.
Included in the Media Literacy Toolbox DVD-ROM.
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