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Here's a great read on media Literacy from a holistic approach. The title is a mouthful and pretty much says it all: 

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Here are some quotes to give you an idea of the book.

A definition of twenty-first century literacy offered by the New Media Consortium is "the set of abilities and skills where aural, visual, and digital literacy overlap. These include the ability to understand the power of images and sounds, to recognize and use that power, to manipulate and transform digital media, to distribute them pervasively, and to easily adapt them to new forms.

Some of these skills have traditionally been taught by librarians who, in the modern era, are reconceptualizing their role less as curators of bounded collections and more as information facilitators...

to reduce the new media literacies to technical skills would be a mistake on the order of confusing penmanship with composition.

To reduce the new media literacies to technical skills would be a mistake on the order of confusing penmanship with composition.

the new media literacies should be seen as social skills, as ways of interacting within a larger community, and not simply as individualized skills to be used for personal expression.

We must integrate these new knowledge cultures into our schools, not only through group work but also through long-distance collaborations across different learning communities. 

Schools currently are still training autonomous problem solvers, while as students enter the workplace they are increasingly being asked to work in teams...