https://padlet.com/dadwatt/kc8fc0onsejlya9x Briefly describe a media literacy activity. Include: grade level(s), title, resource type, topic, media type + a brief description + your team's overall rating of this resource. en-us 2021-11-22 12:06:24 UTC 2023-02-15 02:24:55 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/dadwatt/kc8fc0onsejlya9x/wish/1906436764 Activity: Finding Balance in our Digital Lives 
Grade 3
Topic: Digital Health 
Media Type: Internet and Mobile 
Resource Type: Lesson Plan 
Lesson Description: In this lesson, students look at the different ways in which we spend our free time and learn to find balance between active, learning and media activities. They begin by distinguishing between Active, Learning and Screen time, learn how activities can fall into more than one category; and reflect on their lives to see how well screen time is balanced by other types of activities. Finally, students consider how they might improve how their time is balanced. 
Our rating of this resource: 8/10, Has good practical real world connections, provides good ideas for the students to create their own balanced lifestyle.
https://mediasmarts.ca/teacher-resources/finding-balance-our-digital-lives

]]> 2021-11-22 15:49:56 UTC https://padlet.com/dadwatt/kc8fc0onsejlya9x/wish/1906436764 https://padlet.com/dadwatt/kc8fc0onsejlya9x/wish/1906446143 Resource Type: Lesson Plan
Topic: Advertising and Brands
Media Type: Advertisement picture 
Description: Have a class discussion about what an ad is and what a brand is. Go through activity as a class. At the end the students get a hand out for their evaluation. Students cut out images and decide if they are branded characters or cartoon characters. 
Overall Rating: 4/5 We like that it shows different types of ads and brands, but it is focused on images only. It would be good to include some videos as well. 
https://mediasmarts.ca/sites/default/files/lesson-plans/lesson_can_you_spot_the_ad_2.pdf

]]> 2021-11-22 15:54:07 UTC https://padlet.com/dadwatt/kc8fc0onsejlya9x/wish/1906446143 https://padlet.com/dadwatt/kc8fc0onsejlya9x/wish/1906454688 Activity: includes students given the opportunity to design and formulate their own advertisement poster after watching an informational video in healthy eating (possible extension into other strands)
Grade level:  grade 3 
Title: Understanding Food Advertising 
Resource: lesson plan and video (https://mediasmarts.ca/teacher-resources/adversmarts-understanding-food-advertising-online)
Topic: media literacy, visual arts, healthy eating
Rating: 8/10 we liked how the website gave us different areas of media literacy to explore with our students and how to connect across different strands. ]]> 2021-11-22 15:57:58 UTC https://padlet.com/dadwatt/kc8fc0onsejlya9x/wish/1906454688 https://padlet.com/dadwatt/kc8fc0onsejlya9x/wish/1906458603 Batoul, Brittany, Sara, Mitra

Grades: 2 - 6
Resource type: lesson plan 
Topic: stereotypes in TV

Description: familiarizes students with stereotypes and helps them understand how stereotypes are portrayed on television, e.g., bully, villain, cop. Characters stereotyped because of their age, sex, culture, job, etc. 
Students to watch television show videos, identify, draw and describe different character stereotypes. 

Rating - the lesson plan needs to be updated for students of this generation (included a picture of Jennifer Aniston, who young kids may not recognize). Lesson also asks kids to watch videos from T.V. shows --> replace with YouTube videos / Netflix shows for the current times. 
The lesson plan also does not include ways to differentiate instruction for kids at different literacy levels, so this would be something the teacher has to do.

]]> 2021-11-22 15:59:39 UTC https://padlet.com/dadwatt/kc8fc0onsejlya9x/wish/1906458603 https://padlet.com/dadwatt/kc8fc0onsejlya9x/wish/1906459032 By: Anjola Sekoni, Osaretin Arthunmwunde, Osaretin Arthunmwunde and Jennifer Semkowski
Media Literacy Activity: This activity is called House hippo 2.0. Idea is to show students that what you see in media can be deceptive. This activity shows students a video frame by frame and ask students if they think this is real. The end of the video shows students that these videos were made to show how easy it is to be fooled by media images. 
Grade level(s): K-2 
Resource Type: Lesson Plan and Activities
Media Type: Video and Images 
Overall Rating of this Resource: 4.5/5 Overall think this is a very relevant topic and it has all the information for a lesson contained, including follow up activities. Also teaches students valuable lessons on looking at the bigger picture. Skills used in this lesson can be used and applied to their own lives. As a group we decided to really know how good this resource is we would have to try it with a class.
Resource link: https://mediasmarts.ca/sites/default/files/lesson-plans/lesson_break_the_fake_whats_in_the_frame.pdf]]> 2021-11-22 15:59:52 UTC https://padlet.com/dadwatt/kc8fc0onsejlya9x/wish/1906459032 https://padlet.com/dadwatt/kc8fc0onsejlya9x/wish/1906460028 Activity: What's in the Frame? 
k-2
Topic: Break the fake news 
Resource Type: Lesson Plan 
Lesson Description: Show a video depicting fake news, ask the students if it is real or not and why. Then show a slide show with pictures of behind the scene makings. Get the kids to make their own fake commercial using their phones and puppet, then compare their video with the pictures of the behind the scene making and discuss how we can digitally alter things with a large budget to look very real. 

4 out of 5. This lesson is a great one with lots of resources to support it. There are lots of extensions, worksheets and handouts on activities to illustrate the point that digital media can be produced using technology and puppets to look real.

https://mediasmarts.ca/sites/default/files/lesson-plans/lesson_break_the_fake_whats_in_the_frame.pdf]]> 2021-11-22 16:00:22 UTC https://padlet.com/dadwatt/kc8fc0onsejlya9x/wish/1906460028 https://padlet.com/dadwatt/kc8fc0onsejlya9x/wish/1906460248 Activity: Lesson Plan
Grade: 2
Topic: TV Stereotypes
Media Type: Internet
Lesson Description: this lesson will get students to understand the roles that stereotypes play in TV's portrayal of life. It will begin with a discussion about the types of common stereotypes  seen on TV and the possible negative influences of stereotyping. Students will be engaged in number of writing, drawing and viewing activities to deconstruct segments of TV programs, drawing stereotypical and non-stereotypical figures and writing a poem about stereotypes.
Overall Rating: 4/5, it's a great starting resource to introduce the topic of stereotypes. More information on how to introduce conversations about negative stereotypes would add to this resource.
https://mediasmarts.ca/lessonplan/tv-stereotypes-lesson

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