MediaSmarts Tags - Global Development Portrayal

Level: Grades 6 to 8

Author: Media Literacy for Development & Children's Rights, UNICEF Canada. Used with permission. For more teaching and lesson ideas for global education from around the world, visit UNICEF Canada's Global Schoolhouse at www.unicef.ca.

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Level: Grades 6 to 8

Author: Media Literacy for Development & Children's Rights, UNICEF Canada. Used with permission. For more teaching and lesson ideas for global education from around the world, visit UNICEF Canada's Global Schoolhouse at www.unicef.ca.

Overview

Level: Grades 7 to 12

Author: This unit was created for MediaSmarts by Media Educator, Maureen Baron.

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In this three-day unit, students assess media coverage of natural disasters and their aftermath. Students explore how sensationalism plays a role in determining what is newsworthy, and how that can distort our perception of issues in developing nations.

Level: Grades 7 to 12 

Author: This unit was created for MediaSmarts by Media Educator, Maureen Baron.

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In this four-day unit, students will examine the role of popular culture celebrities in creating awareness of world issues. Students will debate whether celebrity involvement is important and positive, or whether such involvement brings too much attention to the celebrities themselves, overshadowing the central messages of a campaign, organization, program or issue.

Level: Grades 7 to 12

Author: This unit was created for MediaSmarts by Media Educator, Maureen Baron.

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In this two-day unit, students learn strategies for using the Internet effectively to research global development issues. Students discover how to determine the truth and accuracy of online information and learn effective ways to obtain balanced sources of information. Students learn to ask, and search for answers to, the questions: Who is presenting this information and why?

Lessons on Media and Global Development for Grades 7-12

Much of what we believe about the world comes from the media products we see and hear. This is especially true of places and things we might not have actually experienced, such as developing nations and global development efforts.

Level: Grades 11-12

Author: This unit was created for MediaSmarts by Media Educator, Maureen Baron.

Overview

In this five- or six-day unit, students create a video podcast to present balanced, unbiased perspectives on global development issues. They voice their perspectives through the language, codes and conventions of a visual medium.

Level: Grades 6 to 8

Author: Media Literacy for Development & Children's Rights, UNICEF Canada. Used with permission. For more teaching and lesson ideas for global education from around the world, visit UNICEF Canada's Global Schoolhouse at www.unicef.ca.

"Children are immersed daily in a dense bath of mass media images and messages. Some teach children about the world around them. Others promote deceptive, partial, stereotypical and sometimes harmful perceptions."