Skills and Processes
Dimensions of Thinking
Students will:
Develop skills of critical thinking and creative thinking:
- identify and re-examine their personal assumptions and opinions to broaden their understanding of a topic or issue
- determine the validity of information based on context, bias, source, objectivity, evidence and reliability to broaden their understanding of a topic or issue
- develop an awareness of how perspectives can shape understanding
Research for Deliberative Inquiry
Students will:
Apply research processes:
- demonstrate responsible and ethical use of information and technology
- locate information by using various parts of an information source; e.g., the glossary, table of contents, index and home page of a Web site
- access and select information from a variety of sources; e.g., documents, art, songs, artifacts, narratives and oral stories
- recognize that information serves a variety of purposes and that accuracy or relevance may require verification
- compare various interpretations of events using a variety of evidence; e.g., photographs, artifacts, interviews and media reports
Communication
Students will:
Develop skills of media literacy:
- identify techniques used to enhance the authority and authenticity of media messages
- examine the values, lifestyles and points of view represented in media messages
- recognize the impact of television, the Internet, radio and print media on a particular current affairs issue
Lessons
- Adjusting the Focus
- Deconstructing Web Pages
- Elections and the Media
- Freedom to Smoke
- Gender and Tobacco
- Gender Messages in Alcohol Advertising
- ICYouSee: A Lesson in Critical Thinking
- Images of Learning: Elementary
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising - Lesson 1: Messages About Drinking
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising - Lesson 2: Young Drinkers
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising - Lesson 3: Understanding Brands
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising - Lesson 4: Interpreting Media Messages
- Violence and Video Games
- Looking Through the Lenses
- Marketing to Teens: Alternate Ads
- Marketing to Teens: Gender Roles in Advertising
- Marketing to Teens: Introduction
- Marketing to Teens: Marketing Tactics
- News Journalism Across the Media: Introduction
- Perceptions of Youth and Crime
- Selling Tobacco
- Sports Personalities in Magazine Advertising
- Stereotyping and Bias
- Television News: Lesson Four
- The Impact of Gender Stereotypes
- The True Story
- Tobacco Labels
- TV Dads: Immature and Irresponsible?
- Video Games
- Video Production of a Newscast
- What Students Need to Know about Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy
- Who Knows? Your Privacy in the Information Age
- Whose Lenses? How Mass Media Portray Global Development
- Media Minute Lesson 3: Audiences negotiate meaning
- Media Minute Lesson 4: Media have commercial implications
- Media Minute Lesson 5: Media have social and political implications
- Cyberbullying and Civic Participation
- Cyberbullying and the Law
- Understanding Cyberbullying : Virtual vs. Physical Worlds
- Promoting Ethical Behaviour Online: Our Values and Ethics
- That’s Not Cool
- Put Your Best Face Forward
Educational Games
Student Tutorial (Licensed Resource)