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Elementary Level: Decoding Money
Related to kit: Introducing Africa: Critical Thinking and Media Literacy
An example of leading a class through a constructivist media decoding using a lesson from our kit, Introducing Africa. Students in this video compare two African currencies to the U.S. Dollar to gain insight about cultural differences.
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Constructivist Media Decoding
Social Studies
Lower Elementary
Upper Elementary
The Impact of Using News as a Primary Source in Classrooms
This article, by a high school senior who was working with Project Look Sharp’s Chris Sperry, explores the use of news as a primary text in a Humanities class to teach students to think critically about the news, world events, and their own perspectives.
RX For an Infodemic: Media Decoding, COVID-19, and Online Teaching
After describing the historical, political and social causes of our viral age of “fake news,” this article explore how constructivist media decoding provides a methodology for addressing the polarization of truth, with examples of how this work can be done in the classroom through face-to-face and virtual learning.
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Social Studies
English Language Arts
Middle School
High School
College
Checking the Facts: Media Literacy and Democracy
By integrating the process of critical questioning of media messages into the everyday classroom curriculum, we can help produce a citizenry with the skills needed to negotiate future threats to truth.
An Assessment of Student Critical Thinking Skills
This describes a high school level assessment of media literacy and metacognitive skills in which students examine a YouTube video, excerpts from an opinion article, and a webpage screenshot about GMOs and answer questions about media messages, authorship, purpose, bias, credibility and how the students’ own biases impact their analysis.
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Media Literacy And Critical Thinking Integration
Constructivist Media Decoding
Media Literacy Lesson Design
Youth Culture And New Technologies
Critical Thinking And The News
Assessing Credibility & Bias
Document Selection
Question Design
Lesson Elements
Lesson Conception
A Deeper Sense of Literacy
Related to kit: Media Constructions of War: A Critical Reading of History
Basic principles and best practices for using a curriculum-driven approach are described, with specific examples from social studies, English/Language arts, math, science, health, and art, along with methods of assessment used to address effectiveness in the classroom. By Cyndy Scheibe, American Behavioral Scientist, Vol. 48 No. 1, September 2004.
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Critical Thinking And The News
Assessing Credibility & Bias
Question Design
Lesson Conception
Social Studies
English Language Arts
(Not So) Unprecedented Media Analysis of the 2016 Presidential Race and Its Historical Precedents
This article helps teachers to understand how to use media documents from the 2016 presidential race (as well as past campaigns) to critically analyze media messages to teach objectives from the new NCSS C3 Framework for the Social Studies and the Common Core ELA standards for secondary social studies. When students examine election posters, cartoons, and ads they will comprehend that many themes--including xenophobia, income inequality, and women's political power--have been historical mainstays on the campaign trail.
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Critical Thinking And The News
Social Studies
High School
High School Social Studies: Soviet History-Posters
Related to kit: Soviet History Through Posters: A Visual Literacy Kit
An example of leading a class through a constructivist media decoding using a lesson from our kit, Soviet History Through Posters. Students are led through a decoding of five Soviet government posters from 1918 to 1988, where they apply historical knowledge while practicing media literacy skills.
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Constructivist Media Decoding
Media Literacy Lesson Design
Lesson Elements
Social Studies
High School
College
College Level: 2008 Election Magazine Covers
Related to kit: Media Constructions of Presidential Campaigns
An example of leading a class through a constructivist media decoding using a lesson from our kit, Media Construction of Presidential Campaigns. Students in this video decode various magazine covers portraying Barack Obama during the 2008 election.
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Constructivist Media Decoding
Critical Thinking And The News
Social Studies
English Language Arts
High School
College
College Level: Decoding "Last Words" by Nas
Related to kit: Media Constructions of Social Justice
An example of leading a class through a constructivist media decoding using a lesson from our kit, Media Construction of Social Justice. Students in this video decode the rap song "Last Words" by Nas to gain insight about prison life and the greater justice system.
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Constructivist Media Decoding
Social Studies
English Language Arts
College
Critical Thinking and Health: Media Literacy Lessons for Elementary Grades
Related to kit: Critical Thinking & Health: Nutrition and TV Commercials
This webinar offers pedagogical techniques and curriculum materials to help young children understand biases and misleading messages found in food advertising and toy commercials aimed at them, including cereal ads and advertising for foods and beverages that imply they have a lot of fruit in them. Part of the webinar specifically focuses on gender techniques and gender stereotyping in toy commercials.
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Constructivist Media Decoding
Assessing Credibility & Bias
Lesson Elements
Health
Lower Elementary
Elementary Level: Gender In Children's Commercials
Related to kit: Critical Thinking & Health: Nutrition and TV Commercials
An example of leading a class through a constructivist media decoding using a lesson from our kit, Critical Thinking and Health. Students in this video decode the commercial "Magic Kissing Dragons" to analyze media messaging about gender.
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Constructivist Media Decoding
Social Studies
English Language Arts
Lower Elementary
Upper Elementary
Elementary Level: Paintings of George Washington and King George
Related to kit: Causes of the American Revolution
An example of leading a class through a constructivist media decoding using a lesson from our kit, Causes of the American Revolution. Students in this video decode differences in paintings of George Washington and King George.
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Constructivist Media Decoding
Social Studies
Lower Elementary
Upper Elementary
High School English: Examining Credibility and Bias in Web Sites
Related to kit: Media Constructions of Martin Luther King, Jr.
An example of leading a class through a constructivist media decoding using a lesson from our kit, Media Constructions of Martin Luther King Jr. Students analyze the white supremacist website martinlutherking.org and reflect on critical thinking and the internet.
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Constructivist Media Decoding
Media Violence And Conflict Resolution
Critical Thinking And The News
Assessing Credibility & Bias
Reflecting Diversity
Do No Harm
Document Selection
Social Studies
English Language Arts
High School
College
High School Global Studies: The Politics of Maps: Israel/Palestine
Related to kit: Media Constructions of the Middle East
An example of leading a class through a constructivist media decoding using a lesson from our kit, Media Construction of the Middle East. Students in this video learn to understand the level of bias in maps.
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Constructivist Media Decoding
Media Literacy Lesson Design
Assessing Credibility & Bias
Document Selection
Lesson Elements
Social Studies
High School
College
High School Students Speak about Media Decoding in Social Studies
Ninth through eleventh graders at the Lehman Alternative Community School in Ithaca, New York, speak about the importance of integrating media analysis into social studies.
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Constructivist Media Decoding
Assessing Credibility & Bias
Social Studies
High School
College
High School US History: 1800 Anti-Jefferson Political Cartoon
Related to kit: Media Constructions of Presidential Campaigns
An example of leading a class through a constructivist media decoding using a lesson from our kit, Media Construction of Presidential Campaigns. Students in this video decode political cartoons against Thomas Jefferson.
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Constructivist Media Decoding
Social Studies
High School
College
Media Violence & Conflict Resolution
This 2-hour workshop explores the potential effects of verbal and physical violence shown in movies, TV, and video games on children and teens, and demonstrates ways in which K-8 teachers, community educators, and parents can address these effects through discussion and media literacy activities.
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Do No Harm
Social Studies
Psychology
Upper Elementary
Middle School
Piaget and the Power Rangers: What Can Theories of Developmental Psychology Tell Us About Children and Media?
Theories of developmental psychology can help to interpret evidence related to how children of different ages are affected differently by media consumption. By Cyndy Scheibe, 20 Questions About Youth and Media, Vol. 48 No. 1, September 2007
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Media Violence And Conflict Resolution
Psychology
Lower Elementary
Secondary School Social Studies: WWI Propaganda Posters
Related to kit: Economics in U.S. History: A Media Literacy Kit
An example of leading a class through a constructivist media decoding using a lesson from our kit, Economics in US History. Students in the video decode propaganda posters used in WWI.
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Constructivist Media Decoding
Document Selection
Social Studies
High School
College