Media and Information Literacyand Intercultural Dialogue - Nordicom

Cherrell Shelley-Robinsontion as the numbers were almost equally divided between teachers college(13.3%), school (12.0%) and university (11.8%).Need for Teaching a Special Course on Media and Information LiteracyThere was a 88.9% agreement with the need to formally teach media and informationliteracy at all levels of the education system, with as much as 50.4%strongly agreeing. This means that the UNESCO initiative should meet with apositive response since these educators apparently recognized the need for sucha course.Most Important Reason for Teaching Media and Information LiteracyDeveloping critical thinking (58.4%) trumped the other two options as themost important reason while helping students becoming active citizens (21%)and protecting children from negative media influences (20.7%) had almostthe same scores.297