Media literacy skills involve more judgements about sources of media, but both media material and traditional material can contain bias. There is less advertising in most traditional material. Both kinds of literacy require factual knowledge to use the material in an effective manner.
This lesson plan (link is here) would be a good activity for a wide age range. In the lesson you create a Venn Diagram comparing the design of a web article to an article in a magazine. This would draw students' attention to advertisements, the url, and the language of the author depending on which articles you choose. This is a good visual exercise for the beginning of critical media literacy skills.
Good description of the relationship between traditional and media literacy!
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