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Motivating for Media Literacy: How are we supposed to achieve?
The idea of creating awareness about the importance of media, internet and
technology and using in their daily life and how it can make their lives easy are the main
objectives for the trainees to get motivated. Also if they believe they can use this media
literacy awareness for their jobs, it may definitely motivate them more. We should attract their
interests by using different ways for media literacy training by creating a natural and authentic
environment, with the help of fruitful media oriented and entertaining activities and useful
practices aimed for learners. By letting them be aware of the benefits of the correct media
literacy usage, making them see media literacy is there to improve their daily lives in the
society and also their professions, they will gain more interest and knowledge gradually.
Methods/Activities
All the activities should be related to digital world and social media tools. Also the
measurement needs to be via digital tools. Face to face interaction is also important to
produce videos, real life dramas and etc. as listed in the syllabus. First, we should gather
written and visual materials as many as possible and then scan all of them by considering
what our target groups actually need. We can use newspapers, videos, animations, speaking
practices, made up stories, demonstrations. They are given an abundance of examples and
all together and in the end, they can decide on the right and useful stuff for their future use.
For example, we can made up some odd stories, and ask them to use the internet for
accuracy of those news or an hygiene example about their occupation can be shown to them
and they are supposed to react to the situation by role playing. While performing the
situations they’ve given spontaneously, they can be filmed so that they can see their own
progress. The participants can also learn new methods and educate themselves via using
media and that’s why we should teach them how to select true source of information. We can
give seminars and making them watching useful videos for that. Participants can be
encouraged to listen to radio and follow the news and websites, access the educational
videos to get useful information. We can give them some news and one of them is wrong. We
can want them to find the wrong one and comment about it. They can search for it using
several media tools.
Resources
Our sources for Media Literacy are social media tools (Youtube, Instagram, etc), TV,
internet, tablets, PC's, smarts phones, IT, smart phones, local-national-international media, tv
advertisements, magazines, search engines on the web, books, videos, news, newspapers,
video search engines, further web content, radio,
Useful links for further information on Media Literacy
Official Government Website for Media Literacy - https://www.medyaokuryazarligi.gov.tr/
RTÜK (Turkish Radio and Television Supreme Council) https://www.rtuk.gov.tr/en
Library of RTÜK (Turkish Radio and Television Supreme Council) -
https://www.rtuk.gov.tr/rtuk-kutuphanesi-3847