Rethink Texting
Watch John McWhorter’s Tedtalk on texting by yourself. McWhorter’s thesis is that texting is an expansion of people’s linguistic repertoire. …
Category Archives: Media Literacy
Making connections and inferring through visual literacy
This video comes from Radiolab at New York Public Radio, WNYC 93.9 FM and AM820, wnyc.org which airs shows and podcasts on science, …
Analyse Finnish Ad for Effectiveness
This Finnish Ad (about a minute) is a good media literacy lesson for junior-intermediate students. Have the students watch the ad with …
News Articles and Curriculum Connections for students: Gr. 2-8
Teaching Kids News is a website developed by Toronto educators Jonathan Tilly and Kathleen Tilly and freelance journalist Joyce Grant. Each article has authoritative links and lesson …
Create an infographic
Mathematical things to do on a rainy day Infographics are hot stuff these days. It is possible to tell a …
Telling a story in the broadcasting world
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loxJ3FtCJJA Ira Glass talks about the art of storytelling in broadcasting which is very different from how students learn to …
Ride animation: The making of
http://vimeo.com/35399437 Wes Ball describes how he renders ride animation, titled “Ruin”. The final 8 minute short film can be viewed …
Writing Captions: inferring
Have students write a caption to go along with this photo. Help students with inferring by trying these prompts: What …
What kind of a guy is Rooney? (Inference question for intermediate/senior students)
Read Roony’s Boxing Gym rules and think about the question, “What kind of a guy is Rooney?” How do you …
Lost Cat: Point of View Media Literacy Assignment
My blog had to wait while I looked for my missing cat, Katniss Everdeen (named after the main character in …
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