By: Lana Musa
Students become more aware of the complexity of representations they encounter in the media and gain a multifaceted understanding of their fabrication. Media literacy allows people to question the motivations of any form of media communication.
Doctor Walaa Fouda faculty member from CMMC teaching Editing for the Mass Media in the AUE stated that the media literacy development influenced the CMMC curriculum improvement plan that the curriculum committee are working on currently as the new courses will contain a big amount of practical and applied parts along with the theory. And that the perceptions of all the faculty in CMMC regarding the students’ media skills and understanding is linked to practical practice and the skills of analysis and critical and creative thinking, and all the professors work to support this in the various courses.
In the past decades, Media literacy has brought major changes, primarily in the way we understand development in all aspects and minimizing technological restrictions in their use and confirm that control over media depends on the type of media and the social context they operate. It is about a process, which has fundamentally changed all aspects of life and thus influenced modern education. “Media literacy education is intended to promote awareness of media influence and create an active stance towards both consuming and creating media. It is developed during the last two decades after the spread of social media and the interactive media in general. Our role here as media educators is to provide the suitable tools to help the students develop receptive media capability and critically analyse messages, offers opportunities for learners to broaden their experience of media, and helps them develop generative media capability to increase creative skills in making their own media messages. “Doctor Walaa.
