When I first heard that we where having a guest speaker on media literacy, I thought huh what is media literacy, what is the meaning behind it, I am really supposed to know what media literacy is , and I thought well whatever it is and its meaning I would love to know because I am twenty three years old and never heard the word media literacy. Frank Baker from South Carolina was our guest speaker and when he started speaking everything he was saying really drew me in to my thought on what media literacy is. He said that right out of college he was a weather man and didn’t know all the states, he said he wanted to learn them because he wanted the audience to know that he knew actually what he was talking about. Then he started talking about how we need to learn the language of the media, he spreads his word on media literacy by doing workshops k-12 in. I thought to myself wow I am twenty three never heard of this and never think about it and there are kids younger than me learning what media literacy is. He talked about how each state has standards for what they are required to teach for the children to learn at a certain age to understand media literacy. I thought again what were they doing when I was school. Then he went into how most school groups are endorsing media literacy. Then I didn’t feel so stupid because maybe when I was in school they weren’t doing  these things. After him just talking about how media literacy in influenced in our schools, I thought to myself I was sure to get the real meaning of what media literacy is!!  He gave us the exact definition for what media literacy  is, its is this he ability to access, analyze, evaluate, and produce communication and information in a variety of forms and means. Then I listened to him more and out of that exact definition know my understanding is we have to really look at what is going on in media and the techniques used whether it be in tv, maginzen, texting, and even news. . In media images are betray in advertising like making a hamburger look better than it really might be. Artist will use certain colors in adverstment to catch they eye and understanding meaning like green for money. In media news they use photo shop all the time to make look story more accretive but we as people need to really look and say ok is that really real. They use techniques for film to portray the language of the film like shooting down or up on someone to make them dominating or non dominating. In T.V adverster will place stuff digital in the show to advertise the product and that product was never there. When the news media uses photo shop they will place things to make it look better or make story more accretive. They even do this with photshoping history pictures like Dr. Martin Luther King. He showed us a picture of a certain image and the media had used photo shop to change the picture. Here they are messing with history and taking things away or putting them in and they were never really there. Which If young people are exposed to just things that have been photo shopped and don’t understand to look at the techniques be used and that the picture has been changed then they well never really understand they real history of that photo. All this made me really understanding media literacy and why we are in are school teach certain things for children to understand and look at what is really going on. This all built my awareness on techniques like looking at images on T.V. in news and everything else. It taught me to always stop and ask questions. I am glad I got to hear him speak because I was very unaware of this word but knew these things go on , but never really understanding the meaning behind it. I also glad to hear they are educating are children of today’s society for this and what it is because maybe I wasn’t taught or maybe they just weren’t as aware back then.