Media_Literacy

Media Literacy Despite numerous attempts to introduce a formal media education policy into all U.S. Public schools, is has not been officially accepted as a part of the general curriculum. Only handfuls of school across the country offer the option to choose courses in media literacy, and choosing the course in the first place is the students discretion. However, media education policies have been extremely effective in countries such as Norway, and our neighbors to the North, Canada. One fundamental difference as to why media literacy policies and education programs have been in effect in those countries and not the United States is because the United states has a decentralized education system; Norway and Canada both have centralized systems. Change of curricula comes about much easier in the centralized systems, while it is much more difficult in decentralized school systems. The policy in Canada requires that 30% of all high school students language arts credits be taken in the subject of Media Literacy and Education. However, New Mexico was one of the first states to implement a mandatory media literacy requirement. The New Mexico Media Literacy Project, or NMMLP, was created in 1993 as an outreach of Alberquerque Academy, one of the media, states, literacy, education, violence, united, school, policy, children, systems, schools, pediatrics, one, nmmlp, new, mexico, health, canada, been, students, public, private, policies, pediatricians, norway, much, first, exposure, effective, decentralized, countries, centralized, being, american, across, academy