LITERACY for the 21st Century
(page 42) Media literacy, therefore, is about helping students become competent, critical and literate in all media forms so that they control the interpretation of what they see, hear or interact with rather than letting the interpretation control them. To become media literate is not to memorize facts or statistics about the media, but rather to learn to
raise the right questions about what you are watching, reading, listening or contributingto.
Len Masterman, the acclaimed author of Teaching the Media, calls it “critical autonomy” or the ability to think for oneself.