Lupi

@lupi

cow of tailed snake (gay)

they/them/moo
chimoora.zone/

you can say "chimoora" instead of "cow of tailed snake" if you want. its a good pun.

i ramble about aerospace sometimes
I take rocket photos and you can see them @aWildLupi

I have a terminal case of bovine pungiform encephalopathy, the bovine puns are cowmpulsory

they/them/moo where "moo" stands in for "you" or where it's funny, like "how are moo today, Lupi?" or "dancing with mooself"

᠎
Bovigender (click flag for more info!)

twitter

twitter.com/awildlupidragon

twitch

twitch.tv/lupidragon

Lupi @lupi4/1/2023, 3:25 PM

Moo 🌸@Moo

Ange @aenglestudio3/23/2023, 4:35 PM

We've got to Educate Older Folks on Media Literacy too, I think.

I fell down a rabbit hole on twitter (I would advise against this) and read a bunch of folks and their concerns about media literacy. I think a lot of it has to do with how much media literacy is taught in schools, not just in "today" terms, but "yesterday" terms. And I don't think just saying, "Well, our older adults have boomer brain" is enough.

It's actually really dismissive of the problem at hand. What did the curriculums of the 1950's through 1970's look like? Were they teaching media literacy? And how much has it improved since the 1980's through 2020's?

For an example, a lot of people assume that as a Texan, I wasn't taught to think or to analyze the news? But that is simply not the case. Sure, I had a lot of teachers who would brush some subjects aside but there was a lot of great teachers who taught us that.

People get really concerned when children don't read, but uh, my intake of books was not that great either. They'll say that children don't do imaginative play, but that is simply not the truth. Loads of video games that children play are mixed into their imaginative play -- I mean, I did loads of imaginative play when I couldn't play Sonic at home by pretending that I was going on adventures with Sonic.

Anyways, I want to ask can we teach media literacy on the internet? Of course. There are websites full of lessons for teachers and parents, right? But I think we should also aim for older audiences. We should continue educating older adults, not just young adults, to be curious about the world around them.

Not everyone wants to read, but I think if you make it interesting, people will want to consume educational media on platforms. I think the other issue is that the educational material needs to be accessible, publicly available and free. The financial burden means we have to find ways, as educators, to raise money so that we can live.

I'm not sure how to formulate this into a plan. But I'm thinking about it now and would like to expand on it somehow. Maybe I should start doing some research on how to make really interesting educational videos?

EDIT

Also I think a lot of people like to talk about how this gen or that gen don't know anything and use screens too much. But I have seen outliers of gen z who make video essays and will say, "Heyyy guys... tiktok is bad actually? lol?"

So I'm not one of these people who think the gen z is hopeless or illiterate. I think they have as much education and critical thinking skills as we can give them.

Kids, and people in general, form habits because of their environment and they're seeking some sort of engagement. I don't think it's helpful to be doom and gloom about children using television/internet/phones.

I'm not trying to say "Well I grew up with video games and I came out fine" because I do have an addiction to social media I'm slowly waning. But I've noticed what I want is the stimulation to feel something.

#education #media literacy #thinking out loud

You must log in to comment.

in reply to @aenglestudio's post:

@secrets4/5/2023, 5:17 PM

Do people people actually teach media literacy in a systematic way at all?

As kids there were certain times and milieus where lying online was a common fun hobby and that was where most of my generation learned to pick up on when someone just be lying online, not from adults who were alternately treating everything they read there as infallible and moral-panicking about how anyone who looked at the internet unsupervised was already dead. In college the general rule of thumb was lots of citations or a Respectable Institution = truth, neither teacher nor students have time to check everything for whether they're citing a bunch of bullshit or slipped some through a single line of editorial gatekeeping into permanent credibility, which was very useful to keep in mind when you had not in fact done the reading. I don't even know what standards you could teach a broad audience to that a motivated actor couldn't game pretty readily.

You learn to read by immersing yourself in lots of material of varying quality to get a sense for why someone wrote what you're reading and how much they understand it, ideally with enough different people around to sanity-check against whether you're getting sucked into some cult, and that's not a quick process. There's a window until your late teens/early 20s where that's not a problem, you've got nothing but time on your hands, but as you get older you're afforded less and less free time and energy to properly inform yourself until you've been locked into the same habits for half a century and aren't likely to change. Even if tiktok were to become the best information source around I'm certainly not about to start learning by watching hours and hours of little clips of idiots dancing, and figuring out what if anything the dances really signify.

Pinned Tags