The fourth superpower is digital-media literacy skills that help citizen witnesses use media more safely and effectively.
Across all of these ways of hacking the future, media literacy is essential.
Today, UNESCO continues to be a leader in the development of national media literacy policies, media literacy teaching resources and curriculum.
You tell me: is government action necessary or is this another example of the importance that media literacy be taught in schools?
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As media becomes an increasing part of every-day life and as we make progress in bridging the digital divide, media literacy is becoming increasingly important.
By weaving together slick montages of babes in bikinis and reality TV catfights with hard-hitting stats and interviews, the film is a crash course in media literacy for the Internet generation.
Through WET, Sasha has acted in and produced numerous plays written by women, developed screenplays and plays written by women, and created a media literacy and leadership program for teenage girls.
As an entrepreneurial nonprofit that operates at the intersection of media, human rights, and technology, we have learned to adapt quickly when opportunities surface because of new technology or advances in digital-media literacy.
Media literacy used to mean you could read a newspaper (this thing called paper that had news printed on it) and watch TV newscasts and have some understanding of what is going on.
What they really need is a formal social media literacy program, which offers a certification so that employees can share their progress and practices both on their employee directory as well as on LinkedIn, Facebook and even their Twitter profile.
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The highlighting ethical standards in digital age, media concentration impacts on media's role, hate-speech and self-regulations, challenges to investigative journalism and Media and Information Literacy in both Urdu print and electronic media.
The education system should include specialized training in ICTs, and in media and information literacy (MIL).
Improve media and information literacy and encourage the development and use of OER in open standard digital formats.
He also stressed how corporate self-regulation, and media and information literacy for users, could protect privacy and freedom of expression.
The conference was followed by a training session on media and information literacy, attended by information professionals from public institutions of Morocco.
The production of the Media and Information Literacy Curriculum for Teachers.
The programme will kick off tomorrow with a workshop to prepare a Moroccan adaptation of the UNESCO Media and Information Literacy Curriculum for Teachers.
They discussed the introduction of media and information literacy into the education policy in Morocco, and the role of teachers and librarians in this process.
Media and information literacy (MIL) empowers citizens with skills to become the centre of the knowledge society and the democratic, development and good governance processes.
Media and Information Literacy Curriculum for Teachers and Model Curricula for Journalism Education were highlighted as effective tools for the advancement of journalism excellence.
The launch of the initiative took place during the First International Forum on Media and Information Literacy, held from 15 to 17 June 2011 in Fez, Morocco.
For 2012, work has commenced on the UNESCO Media and Information Literacy Curricula from the Communication and Information Sector and the General History of Africa Curricula from the Culture Sector.
To this end, UNESCO will be promoting the inclusion of MIL in formal and non-formal education systems through its Model Media and Information Literacy Curriculum for Teacher Education, which will be released soon.
Media and Information Literacy has become critically important in Morocco since the adoption of its new constitution in 2011, in which articles 25 and 27 guarantee freedom of expression and freedom of information.
The programme aims to help Moroccan citizens more effectively engage with media and the Internet and to develop critical competencies in using information by placing Media and Information Literacy in the formal national school curricula.
Apart from empowering teachers from the Zithobeni community, the training will also test some models of UNESCO's Draft Media and Information Literacy (MIL) Curriculum in order to subsequently adapt it for the needs of rural communities.
Media and information literacy, through which individuals acquire a combination of technical and cognitive skills to seek, evaluate and use information effectively, develop critical thinking and acquire the behaviours for life-long learning, is becoming the engine of education in the 21st century.
The 2008 Functional Literacy, Education, and Mass Media Survey (FLEMMS) indicated the functional literacy among persons ages 10 to 64 was 88.7 per cent for girls and women and 84.2 per cent for boys and men.
Literacy may be under attack from electronic media, but that's actually nothing new.
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