Literay Skills

Media literacy skills require a wide variety of different techniques than traditional literacy skills.  The most notable difference in these two is that when it comes to media literacy skills the student has to validate information and make sure that the information they are getting is truthful.  With traditional literacy, that doesn't happen.  For both of these literacy types, research skills are valuable, which is something they both share in common.  The ability to find the information is different, media literacy requiring the use of search engines on the internet.  These two means to finding and evaluating information, however, are very useful to students.