New CLEMI dossier: The Essentials of Media and Information Education

“What is essential in media and information education” is the title of a pedagogical document that has just been published by CLEMI, a nationwide center of the French Ministry of Education.

The work, intended to support the work of teachers and educational activities, offers basic resources necessary to those who start in the activity of critical approach to media and information. It is therefore also useful for students preparing to teach, in any scientific area or level of education and teaching.

With suggestions for activities, this publication covers topics such as the process of information production; evaluation of that same information; analysis of news images; freedom of expression and its limits; differentiation between journalistic information and advertising.

CLEMI – Center for Media and Information Education also proposes what it calls “a series of guides for publishing information, mainly through school media”.

The full text of the document can be accessed here.

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