Truth about girls
Posted on 25 October, 2008 by Simon Robinson
The Truth About Teen Girls – TIME
Some experts recommend media-literacy classes–as early as kindergarten. “Children need to learn how to dissect and understand this pervasive aspect of their environment,” says Gigi Durham, author of The Lolita Effect, “just as they learn to understand the seasons or Newton’s laws of motion.”
and further to that
Durham also suggests, counterintuitively, that kids should have access to more media. But the venues she recommends are those–like girlsinc.org–that are not in a symbiotic relationship with people who want to sell things. And she believes that girls should be encouraged to create their own media, not just to talk back but also to understand how they work.
We are trying to do this with some of the programs we run. I feel quite passionately about the importance of young people’s understanding of electronic media. Creating your own products is great way to deepen that understanding and make informed decisions. I have been doing a lot of thinking about text and where reading fits into a modern education and will complete a post soon. That should go down well…
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