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Cycle Four: Media Literacy Wrap Up
Cycle Four: Media Literacy Wrap Up
Happy Black History Month! For this cycle, we are closing out Quarter 2 social design theme with a focus on media literacy before we launch into our game design unit. What is media literacy and how can it look when we are just learning to use computers at a young age? We’ll focus on songs and dances that teach us early media literacy skills! We can pause to think, pausing to move, sharing ideas while also protecting our personal information.
SEL Warm Up
all-feelings-are-okay.pptxpositive-and-negative-feelings.pptxEmotions social stories developed by the William S. Baer School SEL Team, Joshua Lewis and Faye Menis.
We start our cycle with new leadership and after a string of emotional events. Now and as we approach talks of reopening, it's important to check in with yourself and the emotions you may feel. Social stories help both younger children and children with special needs develop coping strategies to changing situations. Practice identifying and honoring emotions and moving on to your next step.
Media Literacy
Media Literacy
Common Sense Education: Practicing to Pause:
Just like any tool, we need to practice using the internet. The internet is a really great way to express yourself and learn! If we’re on our screens for too long, it’s not healthy for our eyes, brains, or relationships!
Why does media matter?
We can make art when we communicate authentically. When you are famous, what you communicate can affect a lot of people. Here are two scaffolded media studies we can have as conversation points in class.
Grades 3-5: Boxer Muhammed Ali used his media platform to speak out against racism and the Vietnam War. He said it with confidance and he spoke in poetic verse so it stayed in his audiences' hearts and ears. His voice has inspired other professional atheletes like Colin Kapernick to use his platform to publically protest for civil rights.
Grades 1-2: Ruby Bridges was the first African American student to integrate racially segregated schools in the United States. Images on the news of her bravely walking past crowds of angry adults inspired more people in the United States to rally around civil rights. Arts and journalism go hand in hand this way. When you show what is really happening, rather than the ideal, lasting change occurs.
Instructional Supports
Instructional Supports
Here is a lesson plan and additional extension lessons tied to applications of media literacy and design applications. Think of how you can transform you school into a virtual mall and what shops each gradeband could envison. Design can apply to food, clothing, or toy design. Hybrid routines are embedded for when it is safe for students to return to in-person. Practicing these skills now will make transition easier, but it is not necessary.
January4_2021__ArtLessonPlanMazurek (2).pdfELE_Janurary_HybridDayArt2021.pptxAdditional Platforms and Inspiration
Additional Platforms and Inspiration
Citizen DJ: The Library of Congress
Most design projects for the web call for visuals and sound to be fully accessible. Build in songwriting components to your class with weekly sample libraries from Citizen DJ. A lot of design terms overlap and can help students practice translating skills across multiple platforms--a valuable artmaking and design skill. Build songs with layers, patterns, colors, moods, and linear rhythms.
Virtual Field Trips
Virtual Field Trips
Take a tour of Laika, the animation studio that will be setting up a program in Maryland's own HBCU Bowie State University.
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