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Media Literacy
Media Literacy
Media Literacy
Media
Literacy?
Dr. Will Kurlinkus
What is
media
literacy?
How do you know whether
something is real or not
real? Have you seen people
struggle with this end of
media literacy?
Ivermectin: The
Dewormer That Was
Supposed to Cure
COVID-19
“Emergency rooms so backed up that gun
shot victims were having hard times getting
access to health facilities”
—Oklahoma ER Doctor
BMI
• 1830s: Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet, a Belgian
Mathmetician, who specifically says it shouldn’t be used to
calculate fatness of an individual—he was trying to
calculate the mathematical mean of a population, which he
believed was the ideal.
• It is was forgotten about but then the U.S. life insurance
industry sold to doctors by the insurance industry so that
they can have a population that they charge more money
to
• Makes no adjustments for different bone density, gender,
athleticism or, really, height (leading, for instance, tall
people to believe they are fatter)
• In both 1985 and 1998 the National Institutes of Health
adjusted the BMI to put more people into the obese
category
• Used on children despite little to no correlation to adulthood
BMI (surprise your body changes as you grow)
“Everybody views
media through the lens
of their own
experience”
What do kids need to
know about writing
social media posts? Is
learning to write social
media or create youtube
videos as important as
learning to write essays?
Misleading Charts & Graphs
Social Media Gamification
& Value Capture