Open AccessBook Review: Media and Moral Education: A Philosophy of Critical Engagement
Author(s) -
Cheryl Brown
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
excelsior
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1944-0413
DOI - 10.14305/jn.19440413.2020.13.1.05
Subject(s) - digital literacy , media literacy , citizenship , sociology , digital media , engineering ethics , relation (database) , public relations , pedagogy , political science , computer science , politics , engineering , world wide web , law , database
Media and moral education tackles the topic of how we educate young people to live and learn in a digital world through the adoption of a moral standpoint. This is a particularly pertinent issue for educators as the digital world is fraught with pitfalls and challenges and in many contexts educators and educational institutions fall short of dealing with the complexities of digital literacy and digital citizenship directly. We have moved beyond the issue of accessibility to information and media, to the need to focus on the ability to seek, analyse and critically evaluate and apply information and media content to purposeful decision-making and choices, particularly in relation to learning (Grizzle and Calvo, 2013). With technology being increasingly ubiquitous and pervasive we need to move our attention beyond the mechanics of access and ability into the implications of living digitally.