Developing Media Literacy in Cyberspace: Pedagogy and Critical Learning for the Twenty-First-Century Classroom »

JULIE D. FRECHETTE is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communications at Worcester State College. She is the co-author of the Media Literacy and Gender Equity Curriculum, distributed to teachers in the state of Massachusetts.

Combines recent communication and educational scholarship on telecommunications technology with theoretical visions and pragmatic possibilities for the Internet-supported classroom.

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In this age of electronic information overload, argues Frechette (communications, Worchester State College), the Internet-supported classroom must incorporate media literacy in order to help students become critical citizens. Rather than having online information blocked or filtered from them, she says, students need an empowerment approach that will enable them to analyze, evaluate, and judge the formation they receive. She points out that such training will prepare them to resist the onslaught of advertising and marketing was well as to write coherent papers. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)