Learning in a digital age/LiDA104/Aims

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Outcome

On successful completion of this microcourse you will be able to:

  • Develop critical media literacy skills and use multimodal communication to express outputs of learning effectively in a digital online environment.



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Objectives

On successful completion of this microcourse you will be able to:

  • Compare and contrast definitions of media literacy and new media literacy in the context of the history of mass media and newer forms of social media and citizen journalism;
  • Explain how the medium and publisher influences the message in mass media;
  • Explain how social media influences attitudes and behaviour in contemporary society;
  • Apply critical media literacies to assess, analyse, and evaluate the reliability of reporting in the mass media;
  • Apply skills in using digital media for visual and multimodal presentation to support learning.