Good Role Models Onscreen
Recently our youngest, who is 14, decided she wanted to watch Keeping Up with The Kardashians.
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.
Studies have found that fast-food ads dominate children’s programming. In order to give children a perspective on the lure of snack-food advertisements, it’s important that they understand where snacks can fit into a healthy diet. Once they have an understanding of where snack food fits into their lives, they can begin to deconstruct the ads themselves.
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".
This lesson introduces students to the ways in which packaging is designed to attract kids.