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Media Literacy:
Part of a longer series on building media literacy, these lessons lead students through an investigation of social media platforms and help students build the tools and skills to think critically and make informed decisions about their usage of these platforms. By the end of these lessons, students have a clearer understanding of how their social media feeds reflect not only the goals of the companies' executives but also the narratives algorithms create to keep them online.
Part of a longer series on building media literacy, these lessons lead students through an investigation of social media platforms and help students build the tools and skills to think critically and make informed decisions about their usage of these platforms. By the end of these lessons, students have a clearer understanding of how their social media feeds reflect not only the goals of the companies' executives but also the narratives algorithms create to keep them online.
The Project
The Project
To prepare high school students to navigate the quickly evolving media landscape, the client needed an interdisciplinary media literacy unit that developed critical thinking skills students could apply both in the moment and in the future. My contribution to this project was a series of ELA lessons that challenged students to see a variety of media as texts worthy of critique. The lessons culminate in a student-driven social media compaign so that students' research can have a positive impact on others in their own communities.
The Process
The Process
Collaborated with a small team to design the overarching scope and sequence across disciplines.
Conducted research to better understand and articulate historical changes in social media algorithms and policies and their impacts on the social media landscape today.
Used principles of backward design to develop an ELA lesson sequence aimed at preparing students to become media literacy advocates.
Curated relevant texts, such as a research-based podcast on a high-profile social media court decision, for students to investigate.
Wrote detailed teacher's guides with discussion questions, sample student responses, and possible extension activities.
Designed an overview graphic to support teachers in internalizing the program efficiently and adapting and implementing it authentically.
Teacher's Guide: Overview
Teacher's Guide: Overview
The second set of lessons in a larger media literacy unit, this segment helped students understand how their social media feeds reflect the goals of the companies who own them. This overview page was designed to provide teachers with a quick way to orient themselves within the unit and internalize the purpose and goals of the lessons. The consistent use of icons allows teachers to scan the guide for logistics, connections to the real-world media landscape, program goals, and compelling questions.
Teacher's Guide: Lesson Sequence
Teacher's Guide: Lesson Sequence
Spread over two periods, this lesson builds background knowledge of social media policy, develops analytical skills as students investigate their own social media, provides student-driven research opportunities, and invites students to apply their learning in an authentic and impactful medial literacy campaign. These lesson sequence documents provide a visual overview of the path students and teachers will take to that end. The subsequent pages provide greater details and prompting for implementation.
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