Lecture Series: Media Literacy: A Cornerstone of Critical Thinking and a Challenge to Education Delivery

Bluewater Assoc of Lifelong Learning Series: Education in our Rapidly Changing World

Lecturer: John Fearnall

While media in all its forms have become ubiquitous in our lives, media literacy education has dissipated since its peak around the turn of the century. Having started his career shortly after media literacy was introduced to the Ontario curriculum and teaching through many of its changes, John Fearnall learned from first hand experience how important media literacy is and how closely it is connected to critical thinking. In his presentation, John will explain what media literacy is, how he learned and taught it, how it shaped his thinking and teaching and what it and its neglect tell us about our Education and other systems. John will also explore what being media literate can teach us about ourselves and how we are shaped by the culture which can, if pursued, lead to a healthy self-awareness.