ERIC Number: EJ1217519
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2019-Jun
Pages: 14
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ISSN: ISSN-1077-6958
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Teaching Truth, Lies, and Accuracy in the Digital Age: Media Literacy as Project-Based Learning
Journalism and Mass Communication Educator, v74 n2 p185-198 Jun 2019
The post-truth era has challenged traditional ways of teaching journalism and media literacy. Media literacy education can offer a useful lens for teaching students to be more critical. This pedagogy article describes a semester-long undergraduate course designed to deconstruct information disorder in the post-truth era by looking at economics, ideology, and power relations. Applying a project-based learning model allowed students to enhance their digital and media literacy skills by inquiring about the accuracy of a variety of sources centered on a single story.
Descriptors: Ethics, Journalism Education, Media Literacy, Teaching Methods, Undergraduate Students, Course Descriptions, Economics, Ideology, Power Structure, Student Projects, Active Learning, Technological Literacy, Accuracy, Information Sources, Deception, Class Activities, Assignments, Social Responsibility
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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