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Lessons on Media and Global Development for Grades 7-12
Lessons on Media and Global Development for Grades 7-12
This lesson teaches children that television doesn't always offer the best solutions to conflict.
To introduce students to the rating systems for films, videos and television and to the issues that surround these classifications.
In this five- or six-day unit, students create a video podcast to present balanced, unbiased perspectives on global development issues.
In this lesson, students learn about the “sneaky excuses” that can convince us to do things that we know are wrong. After learning about the different types of these excuses, students watch and discuss a series of videos in which the excuses are used to justify forwarding sexts without the original sender’s consent. Finally, students create their own videos in which the excuses used to justify sharing sexts with other people are illustrated and most importantly, countered.
In this lesson students learn about the systems used to classify films, TV programs and video games. Students are asked to take a critical look at the criteria applied to classify these media products, and then take into account and discuss the underlying social and political aspects arising from those systems.