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Are You Media Literate?
What is Media Literacy? Media Literacy is the ability to access, analyze, evaluate, create, and act using all forms of communication. Why is Media Literacy Important? Think about how communication has evolved just in the last 50 years. Growing up in the 70s, there were no cell phones, no home computers, no internet (so no…
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Imagine the Future
It may seem like a cop out to turn to Star Trek as a window to the future, and a mirror on our current struggles, but it has had such an impact over the years and continues to address social issues in a fantasy setting, even now, that it remains a relevant media resource for…
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You Don’t Know Me
So Don’t Judge Me When you see someone who is overweight in the grocery store bakery section perusing the donuts or picking out a cake, what is the first thing that pops into your mind? Most of you would probably not admit this in a group, or maybe you would, but I’m thinking it’s something…
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A Brief Look at Book Banning and Burning
Book banning has been around as a practice for centuries. The earliest known book burnings are mentioned in the Hebrew Bible (Jeremiah 36), then the burning of Confucian works (and execution of Confucian scholars) in Qin Dynasty China, 213-210 BC. From the 16th century, during the Roman Catholic Counter-Reformation against the Protestants, attempts for non-clergy to…
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Verify Before Sharing!
In today’s world of instant information, it is our own responsibility to check that the information we are reading, believing, and sharing is accurate. We all have a tendency to believe whatever stories we read that align with our own values, but we need to look beyond that, to whether what we are reading is…
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Week 3 Media Diary
3:00 am – Alarm clock goes off, I roll over and hit snooze. Seven minutes later it goes off again, and I turn it off. 3:30 am – 4:30 am – Back-up alarm set with Alexa goes off, and I tell Alexa to snooze. I pick up the TV remote and turn on a random…
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NAMLE’s definition of media literacy:
“Access is how, when, where, and how often people have access to the tools, technology, and digital skills necessary to thrive.” How we access our digital lives is extremely dependent on net neutrality. Although “nothing bad” has happened, yet, that does not preclude something on the horizon. This may not be as bad as the…
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If Only I Knew What I Was Doing!
Welcome to the introductory post for my blog. My name is Cyndi and I am a Nutrition major in my senior year. I am a widow currently living in Oregon with my two adult children and my grandson. Since my Nutrition degree is heavy on communication, I felt that taking this class would enhance my…
Cyndi's Media Class 