What is media literacy?
Media literacy is essential to creating change and shifting perceptions about interpersonal violence. Media is at the center of our learning and the source of socialized messages we receive everyday. According to the National Association of Media Literacy Education “media literacy is the ability to ACCESS, ANALYZE, EVALUATE, CREATE, and ACT using all forms of communication.”
Media Literacy Playlist
Want to use music lyric analysis in your workshops? Check out this list of relationship songs!
CONVERSATION STARTERS:
What is the song about?
What message is the song sending?
Where does this song fall on the relationship spectrum?
What lyrics stand out to you?
How would you change the unhealthy lyrics to healthy lyrics?
It’s important to remind young people that you aren’t dismissing the songs they like. They can still enjoy a song, but it’s more important that they are able to analyze what they hear and imagine how the lyrics would look if they were played out in a relationship.
Have songs that you like to use for music literacy? Please email them to tonjie@eleven-24.org and they can be added to the playlist!
Books
Here are books that can enhance prevention programming and start conversations. To learn more about the books and how they can be used, subscribe to the eleven24 newsletter.
This children's book explores finding your identity and being one's true self.
This children's story teaches about empathy and how to be supportive.
This young adult novel follows a boy who's friend is being sexually assaulted.