Critical literacy in the information age: Lies, damn lies and ...

Author(s)
Callingham, Rosemary Anne
Publication Date
2005
Abstract
As the authority of teachers and parents wanes, students increasingly turn to various media for advice and information. What skills, knowledge and understandings are needed for students to sort fact from fiction? How do students make sense of information presented in diagrams, charts or graphs? What meaning can be attached to advertising claims on television? Of more importance to teachers is the question of how we teach students to take a critical, questioning stance to the information they access. In this paper, media sources are used as a basis for developing appropriate teaching approaches to scaffold students’ thinking towards critical understanding. Beware! This approach uses numbers.
Citation
Multiliteracies & English Teaching K-12 In the Age of Information & Communication Technologies 2004, p. 1-8
ISBN
1-86389-938-3
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Language
en
Publisher
University of New England
Title
Critical literacy in the information age: Lies, damn lies and ...
Type of document
Conference Publication
Entity Type
Publication

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