Teaching Truth,Lies,and Accuracy in the Digital Age: Media Literacy as Project-Based Learning

Abstract

The post-truth era has challenged traditional ways of teaching journalism and media literacy. Media literacy education can offer a useful lens for teaching students to be more critical. This pedagogy article describes a semester-long undergraduate course designed to deconstruct information disorder in the post-truth era by looking at economics, ideology, and power relations. Applying a project-based learning model allowed students to enhance their digital and media literacy skills by inquiring about the accuracy of a variety of sources centered on a single story.

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media literacy project-based learning scholastic journalism curriculum pedagogy

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