Mirror Image - Lesson
In this lesson, students analyze their own body image and consider what they wish they could change.
In this lesson, students analyze their own body image and consider what they wish they could change.
Exploitation: Some people use digital media to get teenagers involved in relationships they’re not ready for. They do this by finding someone who is vulnerable and then showering them with attention, sympathy, affection and kindness, all to persuade the victim that they love and understand them.
Online exploitation is when someone uses digital media to find teens and get them involved in romantic or sexual relationships.
Recently our youngest, who is 14, decided she wanted to watch Keeping Up with The Kardashians.
Few issues capture our anxiety about young people and digital media so perfectly as sexting. As with technologies at least as far back as the telegraph, much of this anxiety has focused specifically on girls and women.
To make students aware of the ways in which male violence is used and promoted in advertising.
This lesson lets students take a good look at our society's pressures to conform to standards of beauty - particularly to be thin - and the related prejudice against being "overweight".