MediaSmarts Tags - Violence

Level(s): Grades 11 - 12

Author: MediaSmarts

Overview

To make students aware of the ways in which male violence is used and promoted in advertising.

Learning Outcomes

Students will demonstrate:

In January, American Vice-President Joe Biden met with video game industry representatives in the wake of the tragic events at Sandy Hook to discuss the possible relationship between video games and gun violence.

Media and digital literacy are not going to stop superhero copycat play in six-year-olds on the playground. They are also unlikely to influence a teen's choice of movie for Saturday-night viewing, or what types of games they want to play with their friends. But what media education can do is give young people the tools to respond thoughtfully and critically to media content. It can help kids to put media violence into perspective, to analyze what media violence means and how it relates to the real world.

These effects are often tied to specific events and images, such as drownings and house fires, which may result in children being unwilling to partake in related activities like water sports or building camp fires.

Level: Grades 1 to 4

Author: MediaSmarts 

Overview

Level: Grades 1 to 4

Author: MediaSmarts

We would like to thank Dr. Gloria DeGaetano for allowing us to adapt this lesson from Screen Smarts: A Family Guide To Media Literacy.

Overview

Level: Grades 1 to 4

Author: MediaSmarts

Adapted with permission from the Ottawa Board of Education A Problem-Solving Approach To Conflict Management: Part 2, Teacher's Manual, and Gloria De Gaetano Screen Smarts: A Family Guide To Media Literacy, 1996 (Book avaliable for US $12.95 plus shipping by calling 1-206-883-1544).

Overview

Level(s): K - 3

Author: Used with permission from Responding To Media Violence: Starting Point for Classroom Practice K-6, by the Metropolitan Toronto School Board.

Overview

In the U.S., where television began as a commercial enterprise, the First Amendment, ensuring free speech and freedom of the press, has been used forcefully to argue against any government intervention in the operation of media organizations.