Needed Skills for New Media : eLearning Technology
eSchool News online - Groups push for media-literacy education
According to SETDA and CIC, media literacy means knowing how to access, understand, analyze, evaluate, and create media messages on television, the internet, and other outlets. It also means "knowing how to use these and other technologies safely, productively, and ethically."
The Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education -- Publications -- Center for Social Media at American University
5 principles for media literacy education and what constitutes fair use in a number of common situations.
<b>PRINCIPLE:</b> Under fair use, educators using the concepts and techniques of media literacy can choose illustrative material from the full range of copyrighted sources and make them available to learners, in class, in workshops, in informal mentoring and teaching settings, and on school-related Web sites.
Principles for a New Media Literacy
Media literacy principles for consumers and producers. Much of this is about information literacy--learning to be skeptical of sources, learning to filter out the unimportant, watching for credibility, providing accountability, active participation.