A Teacher's Ponderings
  • A Teacher's Ponderings
  • Presentation Resources
    • Coming Out of the Closet: Undocumented and LGBTQ Youth
    • Digital Tools to Empower Newcomers
    • Critical Media Literacy Sessions
    • Speak Up: Structured Discussion Model
    • Eating History Presentation
    • Voices of the SGV
    • Digitizing Social Science Classroom
    • How Can I Plan Effectively?
    • Planning With Language in Mind
  • My Reading List
  • Blog
  • Contact Information
  • A Teacher's Ponderings
  • Presentation Resources
    • Coming Out of the Closet: Undocumented and LGBTQ Youth
    • Digital Tools to Empower Newcomers
    • Critical Media Literacy Sessions
    • Speak Up: Structured Discussion Model
    • Eating History Presentation
    • Voices of the SGV
    • Digitizing Social Science Classroom
    • How Can I Plan Effectively?
    • Planning With Language in Mind
  • My Reading List
  • Blog
  • Contact Information

Critical Media Literacy Sessions

You'll notice that I have given this session at several different conferences and each time the examples are a little different.  If you want to see how I applied Critical Media Studies in ELA and HSS classes, check out the content-specific slidedecks for the California Association of Teachers of English and the California Council for the Social Studies. 

​The purpose of this presentation is to explore how Critical Media Studies can inform the way teachers show and discuss various types of documents.  The Center for Media Literacy developed five key concepts that are based on the idea of social construction.  All types of media are constructed - and they must be analyzed as such.  Additionally, a critical stance requires that the viewer also take into about the way in which our identities are also socially constructed.  These strategies are meant to help students more critically examine their interactions with media and to demonstrate how important it is to shift from being passive recipients to actively engaged thinkers.

MORE LINKS AND FILES AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PAGE

Spring CUE 2022 (Palm Spring, CA)

CATE 2022 (Long Beach, CA)

California Social Studies Association (2021 Conference)


Resources
The Critical Media Project
Center for Media Literacy
Media Literacy Lesson Plans (The Cinematheque)
Visual Thinking Strategies
Media Literacy in History Classroom (Media Literacy Clearinghouse)

Animating Youth: The Disnification of Youth Culture (Henry A. Giroux, 1995)
Teach Argument


PACKET CMS CATE18.pdf
File Size: 1112 kb
File Type: pdf
Download File

ccss2021packet.pdf
File Size: 596 kb
File Type: pdf
Download File

cate_2022_critical_media_studies__lewis_.pdf
File Size: 4146 kb
File Type: pdf
Download File

critical_media_information.pdf
File Size: 254 kb
File Type: pdf
Download File

media_literacy_concepts.pdf
File Size: 612 kb
File Type: pdf
Download File

Teaching Tolerance: Power of Words
File Size: 528 kb
File Type: pdf
Download File

Immigrants We Get the Job Done Lesson
File Size: 180 kb
File Type: pdf
Download File

Moon Sand Lesson Plan
File Size: 2785 kb
File Type: pdf
Download File

seeking_truth_media_construction_of_the__middle_east.pdf
File Size: 416 kb
File Type: pdf
Download File

Proudly powered by Weebly
Photo used under Creative Commons from Sharon & Nikki McCutcheon