https://padlet.com/dadwatt/qao91i75xnimk0le 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 2021-11-26 11:07:09 UTC 2023-02-13 17:48:12 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/dadwatt/qao91i75xnimk0le/wish/1914593055 By: Jimmy, Julia, Savannah
Grade Level: N/S
Resource: Educational Game
Topic: Digital and Media Literacy 
Media Type: Educational Game
Description: It’s sometimes hard to decipher what’s true and what’s false on the internet. In Reality Check, students can learn how to find clues (i.e., like finding where a story originally came from and comparing it to other sources) as well as how to use tools like fact-checking sites and reverse image searches.]]> 2021-11-26 16:17:21 UTC https://padlet.com/dadwatt/qao91i75xnimk0le/wish/1914593055 cstew020 https://padlet.com/dadwatt/qao91i75xnimk0le/wish/1914593389 by: Chloe Kohlman, Andrej Zlatanovic and Chloe Stewart 

Grade Level; 11-12
Title; Advertising and Male Violence 
Rating; 8/10
Resource Type; Lesson Plan
Media Type; Print Media

Description; 
Overall, this is a wonderful resource. It provides guided prompts as well as various activities to keep the students engaged. Furthermore, there are multiple media examples within the lesson plan to allow students the opportunity to think critically about advertisements they see in their lives. Our critiques would be the lack of accommodations, the advertisements are not current therefore not as effective and finally there is no rubric for evaluation. ]]> 2021-11-26 16:17:39 UTC https://padlet.com/dadwatt/qao91i75xnimk0le/wish/1914593389 https://padlet.com/dadwatt/qao91i75xnimk0le/wish/1914593444 https://mediasmarts.ca/game/co-cos-adversmarts-interactive-unit-food-marketing-web

Age group: 5-8 years old

Description: Help children recognize the marketing techniques used on commercial websites that target children. Kids meet Co-Co Crunch, a popular cereal who needs help designing a new website.

Media type: Interactive online game

Benefits of features:
- targets both teachers AND parents
- extend learning to home life
- helps students iteract with real world examples (cereal boxes at home)
- teacher's guide is really detailed
- FREE
- interactive
- can be suitable for grades 4 and 5 as well

Seems very suitable and fun!: GOOD!]]> 2021-11-26 16:17:41 UTC https://padlet.com/dadwatt/qao91i75xnimk0le/wish/1914593444 juliasehrhardt https://padlet.com/dadwatt/qao91i75xnimk0le/wish/1914593548 Melissa McGirr, Oliver Silva, Julia Ehrhardt

Grades 4-6

Summary: Case study of two ads that advertise alcohol at sporting events. Activities require critically examining sponsorships, language  and images used. Priming young people to be consumers by association.

Pros:
- Engaging topic
- Meaningful
- Connects to lots of students
- Rigorous 
- Could be used for multiple classes
- Frankstein lesson plan and take pieces from it for smaller sessions

Cons:
- Long lesson plan 
- Could be exclusive is people don't like sports
- Triggering for families with substance abuse problems
- Equity issues around religion and alcohol consumption
- Inclusion of Don Cherry as problematic personality -> possibility of an extension activity 
- Don Cherry is also a dated personality, could use updating

Rating: 7.5/10]]> 2021-11-26 16:17:47 UTC https://padlet.com/dadwatt/qao91i75xnimk0le/wish/1914593548 https://padlet.com/dadwatt/qao91i75xnimk0le/wish/1914593812 Level - Primary/Junior
Resource Type: Lesson Plan. 
Topic : Food marketing. Commercials, pictures of advertisements. 
Media Type: Videos, Collected food adds from magazines. 
Description: Students would be introduced to various advertisements about foods. They will be critiquing the success and effectiveness of the advertising. Looking at particular tools used in the advertisement business (ie: colours, filming tricks, celebrities, etc).  

Overall rating of the resource: Not focusing enough on the dangers of advertising (example: unhealthy foods even though the advertising is good), slight vague connections to curriculum (maybe towards art? Power of language to convey? Missing a lot of opportunities to hit the curriculum in other ways). ]]> 2021-11-26 16:18:00 UTC https://padlet.com/dadwatt/qao91i75xnimk0le/wish/1914593812 https://padlet.com/dadwatt/qao91i75xnimk0le/wish/1914594616 By: Jennie Seaborn, Kasey Geelan, Sally Hesse

Our Summary:
- Students talk about types of violence on TV and judge for themselves what's suitable content.
-Students create their own rating codes (based on existing rating codes)
-Students then rate their choice of children's TV shows (a great opportunity for engagement, participation and relationship building) using their rating codes.

Our Rating:
-useful for critical literacy as students are forming their own opinions and critically thinking about violence portrayed in the television they are exposed to
-this skill translates to a lifelong awareness

Overall this resource is great for those who may not be familiar or comfortable with what a media literacy lesson would be.]]> 2021-11-26 16:18:36 UTC https://padlet.com/dadwatt/qao91i75xnimk0le/wish/1914594616 https://padlet.com/dadwatt/qao91i75xnimk0le/wish/1914595009
"Break the Fake: What's in the Frame?"
Mackenzie, Anna, and Scott

Grade level: K-2

Type of Resource: Lesson Plan/Activity

Topic: Internet Safety, Digital Citizenship, Authenticating information

Description: "In this lesson, students are introduced to the idea that what they see in media can be deceptive. They explore the idea that media are “framed” by their creators and consider what parts of the world are left out of the frame."

Rating: 5/5! We think this is a fabulous resource. It is well put together, uses accessible content, and has a great activity to accompany it. It could also be utilized for many different age groups, beyond the K-2 grade range.



]]> 2021-11-26 16:18:57 UTC https://padlet.com/dadwatt/qao91i75xnimk0le/wish/1914595009 https://padlet.com/dadwatt/qao91i75xnimk0le/wish/1914597607 Grade Levels: 5-7
Title: Comic Book Characters
Resource Type: Lesson Plan
Media Type: Print Media
Topic: Gender stereotypes, character stereotypes, comic books
Rating: 8.5/10

Brief Description: 
Students will read a comic with a partner and identify a male and female character in the book. Students in the class will discuss the characters they've found and find similarities and differences between them. Then students will discuss with the teacher what they think is missing from the characters and discuss stereotypes in media and comics. The activity they will complete is creating a non-stereotypical comic book character based on the discussion from class. ]]> 2021-11-26 16:20:45 UTC https://padlet.com/dadwatt/qao91i75xnimk0le/wish/1914597607 https://padlet.com/dadwatt/qao91i75xnimk0le/wish/1914597832 - grade: 8-12
- resource type: Lesson Plan
- students relate concerns about body image to targeted ads and create their own parodied targeted ad
- concerns: they may have had limited experience with targeted ads because of a lack of commercials on streaming services (they will still be exposed to these ads through social media)]]> 2021-11-26 16:20:55 UTC https://padlet.com/dadwatt/qao91i75xnimk0le/wish/1914597832 https://padlet.com/dadwatt/qao91i75xnimk0le/wish/1914598161 Michelle, Antonio, Aaron

Grade: Grade 6
Type: Lesson Plan
Topic: Gender role assignments/assumptions on TV
Description:
- Students talk about what roles boys/girls play in TV shows
- Students critique those roles by defining what they hate about those characters
- Students then create a new character that better represents what they'd like to see

Rating:
- Good content, but critical flaw is that it focuses on gender as binary. Would need significant re-work to function in a modern classroom with non-binary students.]]> 2021-11-26 16:21:12 UTC https://padlet.com/dadwatt/qao91i75xnimk0le/wish/1914598161 https://padlet.com/dadwatt/qao91i75xnimk0le/wish/1914598340 Casey, Julia, Elyse
Grade level primary/junior

Food Marketing Lesson Plan
Television and Magazine ads

Overview
This lesson introduces students to the ways in which advertising can affect their food choices. Working from television and magazine ads, students discuss the techniques used by advertisers to engage kids with products. Specifically, they assess the importance of “spokescharacters” and jingles as effective ways to build relationships with kids. As a class exercise, they create jingles and spokescharacters themselves for the foods they enjoy. -copied from Media Smarts

https://mediasmarts.ca/lessonplan/looking-food-advertising-lesson

Rating: 4.5/5


]]> 2021-11-26 16:21:20 UTC https://padlet.com/dadwatt/qao91i75xnimk0le/wish/1914598340 https://padlet.com/dadwatt/qao91i75xnimk0le/wish/1914605608 Grades: 3-6

Resource type: Handouts

Media Type: Television

Topic: Gender Representation in Media

Description:
"In this lesson, students discuss television programming aimed at children and how girls and boys are portrayed in it. Students illustrate what they dislike about portrayals of girls or boys and then create their own TV character who will counter the illustrated negative portrayals.

Rating:
4.5/5

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