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I think the full text of the bill is only a handfull of paragraphs modifying an existing law: https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/fulltext.asp?DocName=&SessionId=1
by phdelightful 5y ago
I think the full text of the bill is only a handfull of paragraphs modifying an existing law: https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/fulltext.asp?DocName=&SessionId=110&GA=102&DocTypeId=HB&DocNum=234&GAID=16 https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/fulltext.asp?DocName=&Sessi...
I try to summarize below by skipping some extra words:
"media literacy" means the ability to access, analyze, evaluate, create, and communicate using ... print, visual, audio, interactive, and digital texts.
every public high school shall include ... a unit of instruction on media literacy [to] include:
... Evaluating ... the general landscape and economics of the platforms, [and] issues regarding the trustworthiness of the source of information.
... Deconstructing media representations according to the authors, target audience, techniques, agenda setting, tereotypes, and authenticity to distinguish fact from opinion.
... Conveying a coherent message ... to a specific target audience.
... Assessing how media affects the consumption of information and how it triggers emotions and behavior.
... Suggesting a plan of action ... to engage others in a respectful, thoughtful, and inclusive dialogue over a specific issue ...
- avs733 5y agoand this being buried at the bottom highlights not a bias but a limitation and challenge of media explaining law to the public, which is there role. What you posted is fairly dense and obtuse to someone not in the field...it's technical, and it is abstracted from concrete meaning. So the news article about it used examples. People are now reacting to the examples used in the article, and more examples provided. Rather than the underlying meaning. This thread is the metapoint.
- guerrilla 5y agoMaybe we should work on elevating just plain literacy while we're at it.
- avs733 5y agoI don't disagree with that but the language, norms, and content knowledge of ANY discioline result in a specific discourse that doesn't necessarily generalize or share easily. It's the reason education folks and STEM folks generally have a hard time talking to each other.