The New Media Literacy project is a great idea put forth by a very bright group of people. The project is preparing young people with the social skills and cultural competencies required to become full participants in an emergent media landscape and raise public understanding about what it means to be literate in a globally interconnected, multicultural world. This is a great idea, because many students who graduate college graduate with classmates who are the same race as them.
Some of the techniques included in the project is including other literacy works from other cultures into our English classes. Methods like this can help teachers and students be more equipped to handle life outside the classroom, especially with the growing number of minorities in America.
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Robby, I think you have a great perspective here. I hadn't thought about it that way.
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