Resources for the Media-Savvy, humanist classroom
Judith Comfort, teacher-librarian
LESSON IDEAS
MEDIA EDUCATION
CONTACT
MEDIA LITERACY BASICS
*GO IMMEDIATELY TO LESSON IDEAS
*MEDIA STAKEHOLDERS
MASS COMMUNICATION HISTORY
MEDIA EDUCATION RESOURCES
MEDIATED HISTORY LENSES
WHAT IS MEDIA LITERACY?
WHO IS INVOLVED?
WHY PART OF SOCIAL STUDIES?
NEWS THROUGH A SOCIAL JUSTICE LENS
Alternet
Cafe Progressive
Studies in Social Justice
The Nation
Truthout
USING THE MEDIA TO PROMOTE SOCIAL JUSTICE
Media Portrayal of Human Rights
Journalists and freedom of the press
Freedom of Expression & the Media
Free Expression Policy Project
Human Rights Media Project
Spark: involve students in a conversation about technology and culture
AllAfrica News: Human Rights
Search
Evaluate your sources
TRY THIS CHART
Download Chart - evaluating sources April 2017
LESSONS
* Analyze articles on both sides of the media
* Assessing bias in a media portrayal of social justice issues
* Comment: "Irony for equality"( males & females)
* Guerilla marketing assignment
* Responding musically to a social justice issue
* Aboriginal women, subservient in portraits
* Art class ideas on diversity
* Create a social media campaign
* Create powerful advertisments that promote social justice
* Deconstructing media portrayals of people and issues
* Defining social justice in conservative, wikipedia & peer-reviwed sources
* Ethnic press voices
* Fairness & accuracy in reporting
* Fear-based society
* Media portrayal of global development
* Media portrayals debriefed
* Metis portrayed in 19th C. newspapers
* Open Mic
* Rush Limbaugh & logical fallacies
* Stop violence against women campaign
* Student human rights citizen journalist /bloggers
* Twitter - good for?
* Using mathematics to teach social justice
* What does the phrase "social justice & the media" mean to you?
* Why did your family come to Canada?
* Writing a public apology
* Assessing the value of participatory media
* Using media to promote hatred
* Who would you vote for?
DECONSTRUCTION TOOLS
* What is deconstruction?
Arguments & informal logic
Bias
Branding
Cause & effect
Citizenship journalism
Compare & contrast
Critical thinking
Definition
Documentaries
Editorial
Feature film
Infotainment
Journalism
Newspaper articles
Photojournalism
Political cartoons
Posters
Press releases
Radio
Re-construct/re-write history
Social media
Songs
Textbook analysis