1. NCTE Secondary Media Literacy Strand, 11.2 Michele Schmidt-Moore English Supervisor Loudoun County Public Schools Melanie Buckley English Department Chair Heritage High School Elizabeth Glynn (Maternity Leave) Social Science Teacher Heritage High School

2. 2 Essential Question: How does media impact our education?

3. Common Core 7 Integrate and evaluate content presented in diverse formats and media, including visually and quantitatively, as well as in words.* 3

4. SOL Standard 11.2 The student will examine how values and points of view are included or excluded and how media influences beliefs and behaviors. 4

5. Key Points in Media Literacy 1.Review media for its persuasive devices imbedded through rhetoric 2.Provide opportunities for collaboration and use of 21 st century skills 3.Opportunities to write/analyze blogs, Web sites, Pod casts, wikis, etc. 5 Secondary Media Literacy

6. Media Literacy & Research Best Practices Teaching Every Student in the Digital Age: Universal Design for Learning David H. Rose & Anne Meyer, 2002 The Universally Designed Classroom: Accessible Curriculum and Digital Technologies Edited by David H. Rose, Anne Meyer, and Chuck Hitchcock 2005 6

7. Station Topics Station #1 10 MinutesStation #2 10 MinutesStation #3 10 Minutes Jersey Shore & Allusions Rwanda & Primary Sources Fun Theory & Persuasive Appeals 7 Note: You will visit two of the three stations today. All station resources are available immediately!

8. Learning Station #1: Jersey Shore 11.2 The student will examine how values and points of view are included or excluded and how media influences beliefs and behaviors. Laptop Task: 1.Teachers review the flipcharts. 2.Teachers discuss how the persuasive appeals (pathos, logos,ethos) pervade the illustration. 3.Teachers complete a worksheet. WorksheetWorksheet 8

9. Learning Station #2: Rwanda 11.2 c) Evaluate sources including advertisements, editorials, blogs, Web sites, and other media for relationships between intent, factual content, and opinion. Laptop Task: 1.Teachers watch a video on the laptop (Rwanda). Teachers use primary sources to evaluate intent, factual content, and opinions for each source. 3. Teachers compare and contrast their findings. Worksheet Worksheet 9

10. Learning Station #3: Fun Theory 11.2 d) Determine the author’s purpose and intended effect on the audience for media messages. Laptop Task: 1. Teachers watch the commercials and evaluate the author’s purpose and intended effect. 2.Teachers analyze the audience and how media influences them? 3.Teachers completed a chart. WorksheetWorksheet 4.www.thefuntheory.comwww.thefuntheory.com 10

11. Secondary Media Literacy Key Points for teachers connecting with Media Literacy: 1.Distinguish between fact and opinion 2.Identify author, audience, content, and purpose of media messages 3.Compare/contrast auditory, visual, and written media messages 11

12. Quote: “ The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think – rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.” ~ Bill Beattie 12