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Media Fluency—The New Standard for Media Literacy

Can Be Taught:
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Learn how to not only consume and produce modern media forms, but achieve fluency!
Author:
Gary MacKay, Educator, Subject Area Expert
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Grade Level: 11, 12
Prerequisites: None
Delivery Method: In Classroom, Online
Duration: one semester

Course Description

Expand your writing abilities, fine-tune your research skills, and explore the limits of media presentations.

With the exponential growth of information in the 21st century and the increasing call for the necessary skills to process the information we are bombarded with every day, it is no longer sufficient to achieve media literacy. This program of study helps you achieve media fluency through an experiential model that places you in the roles of survey and investigative journalists as well as documentarians. 

Beyond literacy is fluency. Fluency is the ability to practice literacy at the advanced levels required for sophisticated communication within social and workplace environments.

Read this excellent blog entry about why every employee needs new media fluency—not just those in the marketing department.

Materials

PowerPoint, Keynote, or other presentation program

About the Course Author

Gary MacKay has a B.A from the University of Western Toronto, a Masters degree in educational psychology from Ottawa University, and French language teaching certification from Université Laval.

He has 26 years of teaching experience in both rural and urban high schools, and has been a training consultant for the Canadian Postal Service. Gary was a committee member for development of the Manitoba Provincial English Exam. He has written two Advanced Placement syllabi in English curriculum and is currently working on a second course for Zulama.

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