Photo: Pixabay“Forty-three per cent of Malaysians are young adults and we need to start developing media literacy with the young ones. We get three minutes online but you get to constantly reinforce the message in classrooms,” says ME4A media mentor Chak Onn Lau. Media literacy programmes aim to nurture media users who are critical, discerning and assertive. When then, if not now, do we educate people about media literacy?” says ME4A media educator Hilmi Bakar. A media literacy training portal will help upskill Malaysian educators in media literacy by conducting continuous professional development courses.

Source: The Star April 06, 2021 01:52 UTC