Media Literacy - activity 4b

Learning to read visuals by learning the visual language codes. Activities to enhance learning visual language. Aim: Participants will become familiar with visual codes and practise activities to learn visual codes. Objectives: Participants will examine aspects of visual codes . Participants will practise using visual codes in media literacy . 1. Work in Pairs. Share results with your whole group.

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4.Students answer the questions in groups and reporter share with the class.

Media literacy - activity 4a

What is media literacy? Techniques & activities to activate media literacy. Aim: Participants will examine definitions of media literacy and practice activities to activate media literacy skills. Objectives: Participants will become familiar with definitions of media literacy and evaluate which one is best for them. Participant will do activities and evaluate aspects of media literacy covered by the activities. 1. Group Activity

2. Work alone

3. Work alone

4. Students watch advertisements. Για να δείτε περισσότερες λεπτομέρειες σχετικά με το θέμα, παρακαλώ κάντε κλικ εδώ.

Media Literacy - Activity 3

1.Show students the Ladder of Inference.

2. Task Each student works on their own. Work up the ladder of inference for this situation: You're at a party and see a friend across the room. You catch their eye and wave, but they turn and walk away. What do you think? What do you do?

3. A great resource to use with students!! https://teaching-resources.griffith.edu.au/ladder-of-inference/story_html5.html

Media Literacy - activity 6

Visual Codes:

In Groups, Ask students to verbally summarise the “story” using as few words as possible and the only word they can use from the text is “ Water”. Group with least words is the winner.

story

Jack and Jill went up a hill, To fill a bucket of water Jack fell down and broke his crown (head) And Jill came tumbling after.

Ask students to compare their visual OPTIC analysis with their verbal summary. Are there differences? If so, why do they think this happened? Ask students to recreate the story only using the symbols given.

Media Literacy - Activity 5

Visual summary. In Groups ask students to use the OPTIC analysis on the following image:

Critical Thinking Activity 2

Activity 2

1. In groups, give students this exercise:

2. In groups, give students this exercise:

3. Give the groups 5 minutes to discuss the reasons for the activity.
4. Ask the reporter from each group to present their discussion points to the whole class.

Critical Thinking Activity 1

Activity Instructions

1. Divide the class into groups of 5.
2. Assign each person in each group a number from 1 to 5. If you have more than 5 students, double up on numbers (e.g., you might have 2 number 1’s). If you have fewer than 5 students, use numbers twice (e.g., one student is both 1 and 2).
3. Use the grouping jigsaw (Appendix 1). Inform students that their role and job is defined by their number.
4. Give some groups the word “Critical” and other groups the word “Thinking”.
5. Tell each group they have 10 minutes to come up with as many words starting with the letters given and related to either the word “Critical” or “Thinking”. Set a timer on screen. Inform the timekeeper. The group with the most words wins.
6. Combine groups: one “Critical” group and one “Thinking” group.
7. Instruct them to come up with a definition of Critical Thinking using as many words as possible from their lists. The group that uses the most words from their lists wins. Set a timer for 10 minutes. Inform the timekeeper.

8. Ask groups to compare their answers with provided definitions.

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