1.-Introduction-to-MIL-Part-3-Elements-of-Media-Literacy-and-Critical-Thinking

Editor's Notes

• #5: Without media literacy we cannot evaluate and analyze the works of government and other institutions of power.
• #7: We will discuss “3. Strategies for analyzing and discussing media messages” next meeting.
• #8: Moral – belief Ethical – behavior Production skills – research, ex. Equality, racist,
• #9: What are the fundamentals and elements of media literacy that will contradict to the given viral issues? Fundamentals that can be applied to become literate in media and information.
• #10: Racist – a person who shows or feels discrimination or prejudice against people of other races, or who believes that a particular race is superior to another.
• #11: Sexist - relating to or characterized by prejudice, stereotyping, or discrimination, typically against women, on the basis of sex. People intend to comprehend that the man and woman doesn’t have equally rights. Man has the authority among the woman.
• #12: Snuggle - to cuddle with someone
• #17: In essence, critical thinking requires you to use your ability to reason. It is about being an active learner rather than a passive recipient of information. Critical thinkers rigorously question ideas and assumptions rather than accepting them at face value. They will always seek to determine whether the ideas, arguments and findings represent the entire picture and are open to finding that they do not. Critical thinkers will identify, analyze and solve problems systematically rather than by intuition or instinct. Source: http://www.skillsyouneed.com/learn/critical-thinking.html
• #18: A fallacy is, very generally, an error in reasoning. This differs from a factual error, which is simply being wrong about the facts. To be more specific, a fallacy is an "argument" in which the premises given for the conclusion do not provide the needed degree of support. A deductive fallacy is a deductive argument that is invalid (it is such that it could have all true premises and still have a false conclusion). An inductive fallacy is less formal than a deductive fallacy. They are simply "arguments" which appear to be inductive arguments, but the premises do not provided enough support for the conclusion. In such cases, even if the premises were true, the conclusion would not be more likely to be true. Source: http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/
• #20: Ad Hominem (Attacking the Person) - These fallacies occur when an acceptance or rejection of a concept is rejected based on its source, not its merit. Latin meaning “against the man” *That face cream can't be good. Kim Kardashian is selling it. *Don't listen to Dave's argument on gun control. He's not the brightest bulb in the chandelier.
• #22: Straw Man Fallacy - These fallacies occur when someone appears to be refuting the original point made, but is actually arguing a point that wasn't initially made. *President Trump doesn't have middle class Americans in mind. He's part of the upper echelon of America. *“We should be doing more to make cars greener and more fuel efficient.” “Our cities are built for cars, do you want to effect the economy?”
• #25:  The purpose of a loaded question is to manipulate what the content of the answer will be and to control the dialogue rather than receive an honest answer.  Loaded questions often contain assumptions, whereby the question is directed in a way that a straight answer needs that the person answering accept that which the questioner is assuming.
• #27: Freedom of speech is important because people should be able to speak freely. The death penalty is wrong because killing people is immoral. Ghosts are real because I have had experiences with them myself.
• #28: The first example begs the question, Why is it important for everyone to have a voice? The second begs the question, Why is killing people, and by extension the death penalty, immoral? The third raises questions about the validity of the speaker’s experience with ghosts. Even if she believes she’d had experiences with ghosts, she still needs to prove that these experiences were real.
• #29: Either you're for me or against me. America: love it or leave it.
• #31: These fallacies occur when someone assumes a very small action will lead to extreme outcomes.
• #33: Once evidence has been presented, it is up to any opposing "side" to prove the evidence presented is not adequate. Burdens of proof are key to having logically valid statements: if claims were accepted without warrants, then every claim could simultaneously be claimed to be true.
• #39: Luke didn't want to eat his sheep's brains with chopped liver and brussel sprouts, but his father told him to think about the poor, starving children in a third world country who weren't fortunate enough to have any food at all.