Learning in a digital age/LiDA104/About

Course name: Critical media literacies and associated digital skills

Critical media literacies and associated digital skills is one of four micro-courses for the Learning in a Digital age (LiDA) course. In this micro-course you will explore the concept of media literacy and apply this knowledge to access, analyse, evaluate and create digital media.

What's it about
Learning in a Digital Age is about learning on the Internet and we recommend that any learner embarking on tertiary study in today's world should take this free course. Critical media literacies and associated digital skills is the fourth of four LiDA micro-courses, where you will develop critical media literacy skills and use multimodal communication to express outputs of learning effectively in a digital online environment.

What will I learn?
In this micro-course you will:
 * Define media literacy and what it means for learning in a digital age.
 * Analyse a recent press release from a critical media perspective.
 * Analyse contemporary news considering how the medium and publisher influences the message.
 * Apply web literacy skills for online fact-checking.
 * Apply skills in using digital media for creating a multimodal presentation to support learning.

What's involved?
There are four (4) learning pathways, each containing numerous resources and learning challenges, designed to help you achieve success for networked learning in a digital age. The learning pathways are:
 * Introduction to media literacy
 * Mass media
 * Web literacy for fact checking
 * Create media

The micro-course can be completed in 40 hours, including preparation for the assessment.