Volume 11, Number 1

Are Online Sources Credible? Perspectives from Pre-Service Teachers

  Authors

Patrice Morgan, Kingsborough Community College in Brooklyn, NY, USA

  Abstract

Media literacy empowers students with the ability to think critically about the online tools they use on a daily basis. It supports informed decisions about how they access and evaluate information located online. Media literacy aims to achieve the challenge of stimulating the desire to explore, to equalize learning, and develop critical thinking skills. In other words, it is possible to demonstrate how media literacy can be a fundamental strategic instrument in classrooms, now more than ever.

  Keywords

Digital Literacy, Pre-Service Teachers, Media in Classrooms.