New Media Literacy Skills in Gifted Students

Abstract

According to the findings, it can be said that students' media literacy skills are at a satisfactory level. Skills in which the students got the highest score are respectively visualization, judgement and common sense. Accordingly, gifted students are better at understanding information in a visual way, tend to use as many pictures, graphs and diagrams as possible and benefit from many resources in order to comprehend a topic better. Also, it can be said that they can understand when prejudgement or bias is taking place in media, and when they cannot resolve a problem, they effectively make use of both the internet and social media so as to reach others. The more time the students spend on the internet, the more students' online performance and their skills to improvise in another identity improve.