[1.2] Fostering students’ active use of the media

[1.3] Helping students learn to communicate in multimodal way

[1.4] Helping students engage with, appreciate, and judge media texts

[1.5] Helping students understand how media constructs reality

[1.6] Helping students learn to critique the ideological and economic forces shaping the media

[1.7] Website resources for teaching media literacy

[1.8] Final Task

[1.9] References

Powerpoints

[1.5.1] Studying media representations of gender, class, and race helps students recognize that gender, class, and race are social and cultural constructions, as opposed to biological givens.

[1.5.2] By understanding that what it means to be masculine or feminine are often constructions driven by commercial interests to sell products associated with being or becoming what the culture considers to be masculine or feminine means that students recognizes the role of the media in mediating reality.

[1.5.3] Disney World Animal Kingdom that portrays different parts of the world from a Western perspective

[1.5.4] Ernest Morrell demonstrates how to incorporate the literacies of hip-hop culture with the study of poetry.

[1.5.5] Just Think organization: Flipping the Script: Critical Thinking in a Hip Hop World

[1.5.6] PBS program, Reel Politics: panelists debate the effects of political films