” Good media education is not inoculation against feared effects but preparation in using and understanding how media operate, producing meaning, and help construct realities.” (Darts D. 2007)
Educators’ responsibility is not to shield students from the danger of negatives that media brings, but to promote their critical thinking and realization about where media comes from and what the purpose of it is. Be aware that media shapes our thought, behavior and belief. By participating in media activities, viewers become part of art creation and have great influence on forming other people’s thoughts. Therefore, media is a tool for us to express, to generate and to reflect. “Deconstructing and reproducing the technical and aesthetic ‘grammars’ that make up the language of multimodal media products can help young people important expressive and communicative skills and can facilitate understandings about how the media arts to frame and filter the world while seeming to be a clear window.”
How can we facilitate students to appreciate both “high” and “low” art and to understand both forms of art not just as products but as representations of different life experiences?
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