Teaching media literacy

Perspectives on Media Literacy, Digital Literacy and Information Literacy

The cultural landscape poses different challenges for teachers. Beyond developing reading and writing skills, it is necessary to emerge in the digital culture and master the different codes of different languages. In this context, media education studies discuss the educational possibilities of interpreting, problematizing, and producing different kinds of texts in critical and creative ways, t...

Unpacking New Media Literacy

The 21 century has marked an unprecedented advancement of new media. New media has become so pervasive that it has penetrated into every aspect of our society. New media literacy plays an essential role for any citizen to participate fully in the 21 century society. Researchers have documented that literacy has evolved historically from classic literacy (reading-writingunderstanding) to audiovi...

Media literacy and media bias: Are media literacy students less susceptible to non-verbal judgment biases?

Teaching Molecular Three-dimensional Literacy*

An understanding of three-dimensional structure/function relationships is increasingly important to modern biochemistry and molecular biology. Not only are the overall “folds” that illuminate evolutionary relationships uncompromisingly three-dimensional but so, too, are the critical details at active sites. Fortunately, most protein and nucleic acid structures are now readily available on the I...

Teaching Molecular 3 - D Literacy

An understanding of three-dimensional structure/function relationships is increasingly important to modern biochemistry and molecular biology. Not only are the overall “folds” that illuminate evolutionary relationships uncompromisingly three-dimensional but so, too, are the critical details at active sites. Fortunately, most protein and nucleic acid structures are now readily available on the I...