Mass media is a large part of every students’ and person in
general’s life. Media can impact the minds of students’ either positively or
negatively. Teachers can be an influential part of how students view media and
what media sources students believe in: “Most people spend as much as a third
of their lives engaged with mass media. A person of 60 years of age, for example,
has seen, read, or heard as many as 50 million advertisements.”. Meaning an
average student is susceptible to thousands of advertisements and mass media
elements per year. Teachers can inform student on which sites or propagandas
are reliable or unreliable. Using an example of fox news- students should be
taught to understand motive and screen different things within the media-
including the very republican side of fox news.
Students will have their own beliefs and arguments but it is
up to the teacher to supply tools and resources to help students form educated
beliefs and arguments. Ever source from the mass media will have some sort of
twist or side. Students will need to be able to see all sides to every source.
Mass media is not a reliable source for students to create
beliefs or arguments. Students will need to know how to find peer reviewed
articles and texts. Teachers will help students achieve their argumentative goals
by providing databases, texts, and analysis tips. Students will be able to analyze
media and texts before they understand they are analyzing. Teachers will need
to be able to help students to understand their analysis abilities. Mass media can
be an essential part of a student’s education and can be used for the right
reasons. Given the tools to understand what is bs and what is not- students will
create opinions that are educated and informative.
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