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Resources for Teachers - Music
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culturally inherited stereotypes, and to the images presented in the media - film and television, rock music, newspapers and magazines. -
By Chris M. WorsnopMedia education lessons are lying all around us, offering themselves to our eyes, ears and brains for no more effort than it takes to pick them up, look them over and take them into class. - Popular Music and Music Videos is part of a three-lesson unit designed to introduce students to the concept of popular culture and the role that it plays in their lives.
- This lesson focuses on put-down mentality in the media.
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Talking to kids about violence in the media they consume – television, movies, video games, music and the Internet – can help them put media violence into perspective and perhaps diffuse some of its power. - This lesson examines how music reflects and influences societies and is a metaphor for ideas and experiences. Students begin by brainstorming the functions or purposes of music and by discussing music's power as a mirror and a symbol.
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