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Without the ability to question, analyze, and authenticate information found online, in print, or any media format, Millennials are open to manipulation and misinformation. They need supportive comprehension strategies to help them compare, contrast, critique, and analyze such texts. One media literacy strategy is the T.A.P. model (Figure 1), which stands for Text, Audience, and […]

Film and television texts are routinely used in Australian high schools where one can find students studying the film Gattaca or the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Although some undoubtedly lament the pop culture intrusion and long for literary classics, thumbing through the study guides for these units quickly reveals literary merit. The Gattaca […]

As television penetrated American living rooms in the 1960s, Marshall McLuhan warned us that television constituted much more than mere entertainment. Societies, he argued, are always shaped more by the nature of their communication technology than by the content it carries and conveys. Television represented a sensory revolution, a world of “allatonceness,” the era of […]

Teens reported regular social contact with an average of 20 friends, and 83% belong to some sort of social group. In a second report, Lenhart and Madden (2005) commented that teens are not just consumers of Internet content but are now actively engaged as Internet content creators. This includes sharing creations such as artwork, photographs, […]

Children who have grown up since the emergence of the World Wide Web and the assortment of related digital technologies (e.g., cell phones, text messaging, video games, and instant messaging) are now being referred to as the Millennial (Howe & Strauss, 2000). This generation is different from previous generations in important ways. For an excellent […]