WACC | Digital media literacy: Important lessons from a climate change classroom

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WACC | Digital media literacy: Important lessons from a climate change classroom

Dina Gilio-Whitaker There is an old adage that the best way to really learn about a subject is to teach it. I would agree but with a caveat: one must begin with at least a baseline understanding of the topic at hand. Such was the case when I set out to teach for the first time a course on climate change in an undergraduate American Indian studies (AIS) course called Climate Change and Indigenous People. My scholarly background is in American Ind…