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  MEDIA LITERACY  Image Source: Medium.com 1. Thoughts on Media literacy.   When we introduce a new media where human interactions occur, it is only normal that children be taught how to distinguish what is true from what is not true on it. In the olden days through the socratic method , Socrates taught his students how to think critically, progressively shedding light on complicated issues. This is a technique that can be best described as students and teachers “concerted efforts to explore the underlying beliefs that shape the students views and opinions”. Since the beginning of this semester, we have discovered that social media is nothing but a manifestation of digitization , “the process of transferring many tasks and dimensions of human life to digital platforms”. One of the consequences of digitization is the increased pace at which life is lived, and information is passed around. Now as before, there is a need to have access to information as well as to reflect on...