About The Course
Media and Digital Literacy (EDUC 4000) is a course offered at Lakehead University. Within the 20th and 21st century media has been evolving and rapidly changing, this course develops critical thinking within the media as well as examining the media that is presented within the Ontario curriculum. Also, exploring the applications and platforms within media that one must understand if they hope to reach media and digital literacy. (DeWaard & Becker, 2015).
DeWaard and Becker outline a lot of content that is included in this course, "the course considers the cultural lives of contemporary young people in an era of media and digital saturation and explores the dynamic potential of bringing 'out-of-school literacies' into school settings. Students will conduct analyses of advertising, television drama, popular music, video games and social media. The production of media texts will involve print, image, audio, video and numerous Web 2.0 tools. Students will apply digital literacy principles to access, analyze, create, present and reflect with media and digital tools, techniques and contexts" (2015.)