As I continued my research into the subject of media literacy I kept finding myself hitting dead ends. I realized that many of the articles I had found with research were quoting other research conducted more than 10 years ago. I began to see a large divide in the material I was finding. I would find one of the following:
I began to realize more and more that there is a growing need for developing strong curriculum and evaluation tools to assess if students have this critical skill of being able to evaluate internet sources, news and media found online and even images that are found online. As more and more content is being created every day at an exponential rate, we need to be preparing students to be savvy searchers. One of the most interesting research articles I found dubbed what I have been researching and wanting to implement in my classroom as "new media literacy" because it is different from the media literacy that has been researched and taught within our standards for a long period of time. This "new media literacy" incorporates Web 2.0 and social media. I did not find too much more correlation between the articles and the author's views other than there was a theme of the researchers recommending that this be further studied and evaluated in our students. This supports my research question "How does a digital media literacy unit affect students' ability to evaluate digital media?"
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