1. Željko Vučković, PhD, Faculty of Education, Sombor FROM CLICKING TO CRITICAL THINKING

2. The Media Societies
Never before in the history of the planet have so many people-on their own-had the ability to find so much information about so many things and about so many other people.

3. Media Competence and Its Importance
An existing or static body of knowledge is no longer enough to cope with information explosion, changing work patterns, rapid growth of technologies and globalisation.

4. NEW PARADIGM OF EDUCATION
Individualized Learning:
Student is the centre of education
Individualized programs
Self-learning with appropriate guidance
Self-actualizing process
Focus on how to learn
Self-rewarding and enjoyable
Localized and Globalized Learning:
Multiple local and global sources of learning
Networked learning
Life-long and everywhere
Unlimited opportunities
World-class learning

5. What the Internet is doing to our brains?
Media are not just passive channels of information.
We are not only what we read. We are how we read.

6. The Google Generation
The students are reading less i writing with less clarity.
Plagiarism, horizontal information seeking, cat-paste syndrom.
Clicking replaces thinking.

7. I GOOGLE, THEREFORE I AM
Search engines fit students life styles better than physical books and libraries
Students perform horizontal information seeking
The Net generation has high expectations of ICTs and has zero tolerance for delay
They prefer visual information over text
They do not respect intellectual property
Young people have a poor understanding of their informations needs and thus find it difficult to develop effective search strategies
The speed of young people s web searching means that little time is spent in evaluating information.

8. Definition of Media Competence
Media criticism, ability to analytically, ethically and reflexively connect to the media;
Science of the media as knowledge of the media in the aspect of information about media system, as well as the ability of using the appropriate devices within instrumentally-qualification skills;
Use of the media, both through reception and as a sender;
Innovative and creative media creation.

9. Moser’s perception of media competence
Tehnical competence
Cultural competence
Social competence
Reflexive competence

10. Media competences in the age of Web 2.0
The children and youth should get a chance to reflect spontaneous and entertaining use of digital media in a school, which characterize their imagination, by „experiencing new ways of learning, experiencing the processes of creation and thus they can assume the responsibility“.

11. Library Competence