Media Literacy for Google Fundamentalists
Wednesday, 2 December 2009 Clay Burell 
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Just a quick share of some resources I made optional for the “In Google We Trust” students I mentioned last time. Transparency is all, so enjoy, quibble, supplement, whatever:
Optional Media Literacy Readings:
1. Think Peer Reviewed journals are no better than blogs? “How Stuff Works” gives a good overview that will (I hope) make you think again.
2. Shocked that even peered reviewed journals can can be *gasp* imperfect? (To which I say good, so you should think even more about what you read.) This article might interest you (hint: some peer reviewed journals are better than others, and it’s up to you to know the Big League ones).
3. Still think “popular media” journalists — TIME, Newsweek, NYTimes, etc — are as “expert” as scholars, historians, and academics in respected journals?
–Treat yourself to Rolling Stone‘s Matt Taibbi on mainstream newspaper journalism. (His style is snappy and hilarious.)
–See Bill Moyers’ “Selling the War” (transcript here, or you can watch the documentary online there) on how the mainstream media chose inaccuracy and disinformation due to all sorts of political pressures leading up to the US invasion of Iraq in 2003.
- “The New York Times is Always Right”: A Media Literacy Lesson
- How Radio News-Writing and -Announcing Make for Ideal, Literacy-Focused Performance Assessment
- “On Two Ways of Reading” (Maxim)
- Beyond Brain-Storming to Brain-Flooding: Google Maps for Personal Narrative
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No. 1 — December 31st, 1969 at 11:59 pm
http://beyond-school.org/2009/12/02/the-google-generatio/ blog about media literacy. so this is how it works…!
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No. 2 — January 30th, 2010 at 10:09 pm
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