Media education and critical literacy

The course examines the importance, challenges, and practices of media education in society and education, especially from the perspective of critical literacy. The main areas of the course are

• the relationship with media and digital technologies, media use and functions in childhood, everyday life, and social participation, and the use of media content in teaching and learning.
• media education and media literacy: perspectives and objectives of media education, the role of media literacy in society, theories and key concepts of media literacy.
• online literacy and cognitive safety: theoretical and pedagogical models for assessing the reliability of information, opportunities, and risks associated with the Internet, media effects and defense against harmful information.
• data, algorithms, artificial intelligence, and their power in childhood and adolescence.
• media as a learning environment, media ecology.