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Media education for me is not media in education.
Or like information technology which is usually supposed to be connected.
As I know it in Poland.
Media education is about understanding messages.
To think about media messages in a critical way.
Media education is a kind of an engagement with the world in which we live.
Once we used to say that education was that. Perhaps sometimes education still is.
But media education is unavoidably about the world in which we live.
Because it is about the mass media and they constantly and every day
represent to us the world in which we live.
The media are about the world and therefore media education is about
how the world is represented.
But here in a critical approach again we need to remember
who are those who represent the world. And if we take into consideration
the issue of privatisation then we need to remind ourselves
who own the media.
To understand the surrounding, the people, the society around you,
that is a basic need in your life.
Media education is meant to make students say what to understand
read and write different texts, different media.
With media education we are preparing the kids, the students to live with the media,
to use the media.
Media education is an important part of learning skills.
Learning media, learning about media is also learning about the language of media.
Media education should increase the student's skills
how to communicate by media, through media.
How to prepare the media messages and how to read the media messages.
Education itself should prepare students to live in a media society.
This is the information era, all education somehow is media education.
in the way that education is preparing to live in the world in which we live.
We can either say that we should not look, this is the negative appraisal of
media education, that we should ignore the media.
Or we can say that the evils of the media are
not going to have a full impact upon the young
or we can do something which is much more educationally sound
which is that we can engage with the media.
And engaging with the media means a constant reference to
the ways in which different media in different ways
represent different issues to us as school students, as teachers, as citizens.
Media education is based on a sound philosophical basis
of an interdisciplinary character and innovative methodology and therefore
it is a kind of critical pedagogy and it should be promoted across the curriculum.