Tag: media literacy

July 17, 2020

Striking a Chord: Using Media to Protest the Critical Issues of Our Time

Protests have played a critical role in our country’s history – and they provide important opportunities for media literacy, both in terms of analyzing the way media have covered different types of protests and in the use of media by protestors to get their messages across.

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April 22, 2020

Honoring Earth Day and Green Media Literacy

Sustainability and environmental issues have long been a key focus for Project Look Sharp, and April’s Earth Day provides a great opportunity to showcase hundreds of our free lessons on those topics, for elementary grades through college.

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March 3, 2020

Girls and Women: History, HerStory, a Movement Forward – and We’re Not There Yet

Our curriculum kit, “Media Constructions of Social Justice,” includes units on Women’s Suffrage and Women’s Liberation, and there are dozens of other lessons that revolve around media messages showing women in politics, as environmental heroes, and much more.

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February 25, 2020

Now’s the Time for Media Literacy: Politics, Polls and Debates

Any election (especially a national one) provides numerous opportunities for media literacy, from many curricular perspectives – analyzing language in TV commercials, statistics in political polls, historical contexts, identity politics, and more.

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February 11, 2020

Valentine’s Day (and Other Holidays) through a Media Literacy Lens

Holidays have rich histories that can be research and discussed at many grade levels (applying media literacy questions about sourcing and credibility), and holiday messages lend themselves beautifully to media analysis.

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November 27, 2018

Assess Students’ Critical Thinking Skills Using Media Literacy

Media literacy education supports students to build skills that are required by Common Core standards. How do we assess their performance?

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April 29, 2018

Challenging Bias in the Classroom

Media Literacy Education (MLE) is a relevant and powerful way to help students recognize and push beyond “echo chamber” responses, because the first principle of MLE is “to support active inquiry and critical thinking about the messages we receive and create.”

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