Valley Girl Posted July 27, 2017 Share Posted July 27, 2017 I'd like to include a unit on media literacy as part of DS's English course this year (10th grade). Has anyone used any resources they'd recommend? I looked at some of the recommendations in an earlier thread, but the book looked a bit young. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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TarynB Posted July 28, 2017 Share Posted July 28, 2017 Oak Meadow has a high school level social studies course on Media Literacy using this (college-level?) textbook: https://www.amazon.com/Media-Society-Industries-Images-Audiences/dp/1452268371/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1501209795&sr=8-1&keywords=media+society Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valley Girl Posted July 28, 2017 Author Share Posted July 28, 2017 Oak Meadow has a high school level social studies course on Media Literacy using this (college-level?) textbook: https://www.amazon.com/Media-Society-Industries-Images-Audiences/dp/1452268371/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1501209795&sr=8-1&keywords=media+society Thank you! I will check it out. We did Fallacy Detective a couple of years ago. I'm hoping to pull a few things into English this year to help him be more discerning about advertising, media sources, etc. persuade and/or manipulate. It's a tough world our kids are growing into. I appreciate your suggestion. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sebastian (a lady) Posted July 28, 2017 Share Posted July 28, 2017 Thank you! I will check it out. We did Fallacy Detective a couple of years ago. I'm hoping to pull a few things into English this year to help him be more discerning about advertising, media sources, etc. persuade and/or manipulate. It's a tough world our kids are growing into. I appreciate your suggestion. I covered a bit of this when we did American Government. I had them create a TV ad for advocating for something policy related (ie, health care or national parks or environment, not a candidate for an office). I required them to use at least two methods of persuasion. When they presented to our small group, we analyzed them, looking for the persuasive techniques as well as logical fallacies. I like this page for logical fallacies. https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/ I've threatened to make bingo cards for use during debates or State of the Union addresses. This is another logical fallacy list that looks like it breaks down into more categories. http://utminers.utep.edu/omwilliamson/ENGL1311/fallacies.htm This might get you started on persuasive techniques. https://www.saylor.org/site/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/K12ELA7-7.2.2-PersuasiveTechniquesHandout-BY-SA1.pdf FWIW, I often talked about some of the techniques mentioned in Why We Buy by Paco Underhill. Some of the big ones include bandwagon (everyone else is doing it), time sensitivity (limited time offers), and getting a good deal (act on perception of savings, even if the price wasn't really lowered). The book The Image by Daniel Boorstin is also very good. It is older, but not dated in my opinion. Some of the iCivics games might be helpful. I think I remember the Win the White House game allowing you to choose between positive and negative ads. The negative ads have gloomy, scary music and dark images. We laughed when we saw those same styles in use in real ads. https://www.icivics.org/games Another little thing I did was just to show them some of the advertising mail we got and analyze the claims they made. My kids got pretty good at noticing unsupported claims and numbers that didn't make sense. That was a good skill to have developed well before college mail started appearing. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valley Girl Posted July 28, 2017 Author Share Posted July 28, 2017 Those are great ideas, Sebastian! Thank you very much for sharing them. We'll be doing government/economics next year, so I'm printing out your post to save. But I can definitely see incorporating some of your suggestions into English as well. I appreciate everyone's input. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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