The media literacy of teachers, and their students, then, becomes critical as it significantly influences the orientation and salience of reality, affecting the degree to which people are engaged and are able to contest hegemonic representations of what is considered to be in the collective interest of society, including wars, policies to deal with the environment, racism, poverty, and the framing of the role of education in society (Carr, 2009, pg.5).

Throughout the age of technology, social networking becomes an essential element of our lives. That includes Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Youtube such the media platforms that we visit frequently for learning, connecting, and sharing for understanding each other. According to Carr (2009), media literacy should be part of the curriculum in our educational setting. Through the media, people recognize the issues of how society is problematic and realistic. Such current issues included racism, sexuality, ethnicity, etc. In the school setting, students who experienced the issues have most illustration about how media curriculum connected to their life experiences. Particularly, students who categorized as “undocumented” engage the embedded of media instruction because they want people to understand the feelings of isolation when school does not support their learning. In other words, the DREAM Act symbolized for this type of students and still today, people are fighting and delivering significant messages through social platforms. There are plenty of media resources (i.e. pictures and videos) depicted and represented how struggles impact negatively to those students. I think such political issue inspired people to identify themselves. According to Jocson (2014), youth media offers many different ways of thinking about the new literacy, convergence, and presentation from students (pg.107). Student Naier expressed the violence and racism in a “hood atmosphere” through his video poem. Student Adriel wrote about the concept of makeup by words “Slip of the Tongue” which inspired another student Karen to transform Adriel’s words into a visual short film. The major theme of both stories embodied the identity development of the adolescents. Therefore, media literacy is an indispensable element in education and we as teachers should encourage students to express themselves as a unique human being. But the problem is how it correlated to our curriculum? Should we change the Common Core Standard of learning in order to include media literacy? If possible, how?

References:
Carr (2009), Political Conscientization, (pg,3-9)
Jocson (2014), Critical Media Ethicgraphy, (pg,105-123)