Media Literacy

The capacity to:

• critically receive and respond to messages in a range of media – text, graphics, video, animation, audio – and to curate, re-edit and re-purpose media, giving due recognition to originators.
• undertake a critical approach to evaluating media messages in terms of their provenance and purpose

To develop an understanding of digital media as a social, political and educational tool and of digital media production as a technical practice.

Resources to support Students

• How to spot fake news 
  Behind the Headlines (NHS, critical analysis of health news)

Resources to support Staff

• Library and Learning Resources: Copyright Helper

Diagrams for use with resources

To highlight that Media Literacy is being developed in a particular resource or class, the following diagrams can be used.

• Media Literacy-focused Framework Diagrams, to be used on front pages, for direct focus etc.
• Media Literacy-focused Caterpillar Diagrams, to be used in document footers etc.