Media and Cyber or Digital Literacies

2.Whatever it is you teach, you must not only possess a thorough understanding of your subject matter, you must also understand why you are teaching it, and why it is important to learn

3. Any attempt to teach these principles must first realize that they cannot be separated from context—meaning, they cannot be taught separately from other topics.

Has become something of a buzzword in the education sector over the past decade

Ability to evaluate the benefits of new technologies.

Once communication is accepted as important, this opens-up new venues where the new literacies can be exercised.

.It is always surprising how much a person can do when they are personally and affectively motivated to do so—in other words, a person can do amazing things when they really want to. Ans:Leverage skills that students already have

While it is very important that students learn what is the message being communicated by any media text, it is also important to develop in them a, habit for asking why is the message being communicated in the first place.

1.Can be defined as the ability to locate, evaluate, create and communicate information on various digital platforms.

(Tool literacy)

competence in using hardware and software tools

(critical literacy)

ability to evaluate the benefits of new technologies.