Media Literacy in the Social Media Age Middle School Program
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Grades: 6 - 8
Video Description: As part of Media Literacy Week 2017 student groups were invited to join us to explore different aspects of media literacy in the age of social media. For our middle school program our focus was on one’s online presence and the digital citizenship involved in creating and presenting material on social media and other online outlets and in digesting information presented on those platforms.
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