DISADVANTAGES OF MEDIA

1. Disadvantages of
Media

2. What to Expect….
Examine the disadvantages of media.
Understand Curriculum Integration of Media
Literacy.
Cite and explain different media skills and
approaches to teach media literacy.

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13. Integrating Media Literacy in the Curriculum
Teach students to evaluate media.
Show students where to find digital resources and databases.
Compare/contrast various media sources
Discuss how the media edits and alters.
Examine the "truth" in advertisements.
Have students create media

14. Media skills.
Abilities that students might have with the media that they
use in class:
• reflect on and analyze their own media consumption habits;
• identify the author, purpose and point of view in films, commercials,
television and radio programs, magazine and newspaper editorials and
advertising;
• identify the range of production techniques that are used to
communicate opinions and shape audience's response;

15. identify and evaluate the quality of media's representation of the world
by examining patterns, stereotyping, emphasis and omission in print and
television news and other media;
appreciate the economic underpinnings of mass media industries to
make distinctions between those media which sell audiences to
advertisers and those which do not:
understand how media economics shapes message content;
gain familiarity and experience in using mass media tools for personal
expression and communication and for purposes of social and political
advocacy.

16. Approaches to teaching media literacy.
Media Arts Education Approach.
Media Literacy Movement Approach.
Critical Media Literacy Approach