Abstract
This study developed an educational unit to foster media literacy for the social media era and examined its educational effect. The learning objectives and activities of the unit were designed around components of media literacy in the era of social media. The unit was characterized by participants’ use of educational SNS to interact with classmates in the classroom context only, alongside the implementation of lessons that asked participants to think about the characteristics and ideality of SNS. It was thought that discussing phenomena arising from learners’ own SNS interactions would enable them to relate practically to the content. A validation exercise was carried out based on the education unit, and in order to evaluate the outcomes of the learning activities, the study conducted a questionnaire survey, analysis of SNS usage logs, and analysis of worksheets. The results confirmed improved ability against many of the learning objectives, proving the effectiveness of this educational unit.
