Activity 2

It is difficult to facilitate the transfer of useful media skills to students today.  It is our responsibility as teachers to do our best to help students understand and weed out the good, positive and empowering media that is out in their world and ours everyday.  We need to encourage students to keep their online presences positive and proactive.  A good way to help in this is to reflect on our own digital footprint and make sure our media emulates what we want theirs to represent.  As a primary practice, I scour my personal pages frequently to make sure not only the content I post is positive, but that others comments and images are respectful and uplifting in nature as well.  It is all in our associations that we can team up in setting a positive and thoughtful examples for our future students.  

I would like to know more about effective media tools in teaching students how to weed out good vs bad media, as well as reputable vs inaccurate information.  Or perhaps a few project ideas to get me going on this quest in my own classroom.

Below find my bubblr, I wasn't that impressed with the image variety available, but I made do with what they had available.  I had issues saving my whole presentation, so had to save screenshots.  See my sequence below.  

  

References

Moore, D. C. (2011). Asking questions first: Navigating popular culture and transgression in an inquiry-based media literacy classroom. Action in Teacher Education, 33, 219-230. doi: 10.1080/01626620.2011.569470