Tech Camp: Teachers Only Register for our upcoming summer sessions that explore young children and their use of technology and digital media. Learn how to become a media mentor for media literacy and the best ways to integrate technology into the classroom.
The benefits of media literacy for students are multiple. First and foremost, media literacy helps students become wiser consumers of media as well as responsible producers of their own media. Along those same lines, teaching media literacy helps to foster critical thinking in students. This type of thinking can eventually become second nature, which will help them in many areas as they grow older. The focus is more on strengthening process skills, not content knowledge.
Media Literacy in Primary Grades.pdf
Subsequently, to further investigate the relative contribution of formal schooling to mathematical media literacy scores while controlling for three additional variables, we conducted a general linear model with additional explanatory variables: math identity, time to complete the survey, gender, and age group. We also tested several interactions between these variables. For further details about this statistical analysis, see Online Resource 3.
Several limitations should be considered when interpreting the results. First, this is a cross-sectional survey, which allows for documenting correlational relationships between variables such as educational attainment and mathematical media literacy but cannot answer questions of causation.
Fifth, we surveyed only internet users. Since internet use is relatively less common among Haredim (Ultra-Orthodox Jews), this could explain why this population was under-represented (see Online Resource 1 for differences between our sample and demographics of the population). Boys and men in this population typically attend educational institutions whose curriculum does not emphasize mathematics. All these sampling limitations may imply an overestimation of mathematical media literacy.
(a) Mathematical media literacy by gender, age group, and high school math level. Whiskers extend to minimum and maximum values. (b) Mathematical media literacy by time to complete survey. (c) Mathematical media literacy by math identity and age group
Notably, most aspects of mathematical and statistical literacy which have been discussed in previous studies (Coben, 2003; Gal, 2002; PIAAC Numeracy Expert Group, 2009) are taught in compulsory levels of education. Our findings suggest that the relatively low extent to which some adults comprehend exponential growth may derive from restricting the teaching of this subject to advanced levels of mathematical studies. This is supported by the existing body of research regarding public scientific media literacy, which shows that in order to follow science media coverage, members of the public need to independently learn many new science concepts (Laslo & Baram-Tsabari, 2021; Shea, 2015). This points to re-examination of the place given to exponential growth in math curricula aimed at achieving mathematical literacy.
Digital literacy is an essential skill for learners of all ages, including the youngest primary students. The digital world allows us to connect, collaborate, innovate and discover new information on an ever-broadening scale, and learners must be able to effectively use technology from the very beginning of their educational journey. 2ff7e9595c
Comentarios