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Resources for Teachers - Diversity in Media

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    Bias - Lesson
    This lesson introduces students to the concept of bias orslant, in newspapers and in television newscasts.
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    Bias and Crime in Media - Lesson
    In this lesson students are introduced to the key media literacy concept that media are constructions that re-present reality and consider how representations of crime in news and entertainment media may influence how we perceive members of particular groups.
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    Bias in News Sources - Lesson
    In this lesson students consider the meaning of the words “bias” and “prejudice” and consider how bias may be found even at the level of individual words due to connotation.
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    Diversity and Media Ownership
    In this lesson students are introduced to the media literacy key concepts that “media are created to re-present reality” and “media are influenced by commercial considerations.”
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    Fact Versus Opinion - Lesson
    This is the fourth of five lessons designed to teach students to think critically about the way aboriginal peoples and visible minorities are portrayed in the press.
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    Favourite Sports and Athletes: Introduction to Sports Media - Lesson
    This lesson develops a beginning awareness by students of how they feel towards, and respond to, different sports, and how the media represents athletics.
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    First Person - Lesson
    In this lesson students consider diversity representation in video games by identifying examples of diversity in the games they play, comparing their findings to statistics on diversity in the Canadian population.
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    Introducing TV Families - Lesson
    This lesson encourages children to explore the differences between their real families and TV families by imagining how their own families might be portrayed on a television show.
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    Miscast and Seldom Seen - Lesson
    In this lesson students consider how well their favourite TV shows, movies and video games reflect the diversity of Canadian society.
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    Perceptions of Youth and Crime - Lesson
    In this lesson students develop an awareness of the ways in which public perceptions regarding young people have been affected by media portrayals of youth violence and youth crime.

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