Towards media literacy in the education curriculum: experience of Latvia
2019
Andersone, R., University of Latvia, Riga (Latvia) | Helmane, I., University of Latvia, Riga (Latvia)
Media literacy is important for life in the changing world. Media literacy is the ability to access, analyse, evaluate and communicate information in a variety of forms as well as the ability of individuals to access and understand information through different media tools and platforms, such as television, radio, print media, the Internet and digital technology. The aim of the paper is to analyse the planning of developing the media literacy in the basic education curriculum in Latvia. The study, using the document analysis, has selected the basic education curricula in the new education content project Competence-based approach in the teaching/learning content School 2030 in the following areas: Technologies, Social and civic area, Sciences area. Such criteria as the skill to find the information in the digital environment; the skills to analyse the obtained information; the skill to evaluate the credibility of the information were chosen in the research aspect of developing the media literacy. The study concludes that the skill to find information in different sources and the skill to analyse the found information are purposefully developed in the expected learning outcomes. The development of the skills of evaluating the credibility of the found information, however, needs more attention.
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