Double Entry Journal #5

 Traditional literacy skills are necessary for media literacy skills, however it is necessary to obtain different skill for media.  Offline reading comprehension does not require the determination of how trustworthy a website is or how to research something via a search engine.  These are additional skills that even if you have exceptional traditional literacy skills, you need to become more active with online reading.  It requires more judgement.

Quote:

"Researchers who directed several hundred college students to three bogus Web sites about fictitious nutritional supplements found that half of the students lacked the skills to identify the trustworthiness of the information, yet most thought they had strong research skills (Ivanitskaya, O'Boyle, & Casey, 2006)."

Response:

This is me a lot of the times.  I can admit that I sometimes lack the ability to determine if a site is trustworthy or reputable.  My reading comprehension test scores have always been pretty high and I use the internet for majority of my school work, and I Google EVERYTHING. Any question I have about anything, I just ask Google.  That does not mean that I am going to receive an accurate answer, though!  It worries me because not everyone knows that.  


It's scary how many people actually believe everything on the internet is true.  This commercial always makes me laugh and totally pertains to this topic.

Sources:

David, J. L. (2009, March). Ascd. 

State Farm® - State of Disbelief (French Model)