Double Journal Entry #3

OK Its a long quote:

In the evolving multimedia environment media literacy is arguably more important
than ever. Cultural studies and critical pedagogy have begun to teach us to recognize
the ubiquity of media culture in contemporary society, the growing trends toward
multicultural education, and the need for media literacy that addresses the issue of
multicultural and social difference.3 There is expanding recognition that media
representations help construct our images and understanding of the world and that
education must meet the dual challenges of teaching media literacy in a multicultural
society and sensitising students and the public to the inequities and injustices of a
society based on gender, race, and class inequalities and discrimination.

This information was just to great and I could not find a good stopping spot so I just decided to use it all as my quote. Media is a part of our every day lives and it is the way we communicate with the world around us. Through media we can discover new people and new cultures we can decrease the prejudices and racism that exist in our society with the connections. I remember when I was a student having a pen-pal in England. We wrote each other about once a month or every other month. It was great I really learned alot about her; however I communication only lasted about a year because it was drug out and took so long to receive a response that we lost interest. Today students have the capability to instantly communicate with someone across the world and learn about them. Through the use of media we have connection we once thought were never possible. We can meet real people hands on and learn about them and their cultures rather than reading about how they are in a textbook.It is important for educators to use the media tools as an aid in education rather than look at them as a problem
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Kellner, D, & Share, J. (2005). Toward critical media literacy: core concepts, debates, organizations, and policy. Unpublished manuscript, University of California, Los Angeles, US. Retrieved from http://gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/kellner/essays/2005_Kellner-Share_TowardsCriticalMediaLiteracy.pdf

Related Resource:
This is a research article discussing how media influences our thoughts on other cultures and racism. Click Here.

Petrozza, J. (n.d.). Critical multicultural education and the media. Unpublished manuscript, Research Room , D, Retrieved from http://www.edchange.org/multicultural/papers/media.html