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Crash Course Media Literacy #2: History of Media Literacy, Part 1

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In order to understand the history of media literacy, we have to go all the way back to straight up literacy. In the first half of our look at the history of media literacy, Jay takes us all the way back to Ancient Greece and forward through the printing press, newspapers, and Yellow Journalism.

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advertising, newspapers, yellow journalism
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literacy: reading and writing, media technology, crash course, crash course media literacy #2: history of media literacy, part 1, gutenberg's printing press, history of media literacy part 1, martin luther and the protestant reformation, media literacy
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Classroom Considerations
  • Knovation Readability Score: 2 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • The intended use for this resource is Instructional
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