About our Digital Curriculum
This product is a digital ebook version of our printed Critical Media Literacy Coursebook. The digital curriculum is for use on electronic devices and cannot be printed or shared.
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Course Overview
Course Length: One Semester
Suggested Grade Level(s): 9, 10, 11, 12
View samples of our high school curriculum here.
Critical media literacy is about learning how to critically engage with, and make sense of, the media. This course helps students develop the analytic tools needed to examine media content and make more informed choices as an active audience. Critical media literacy is grounded in social activism because it is inherently about making change. Studying media critically and learning how the media industries operate in the world often leads to changes in personal media consumption.
Students develop the critical skills to analyze, deconstruct, and reconstruct media messages. They will look “behind the scenes” to examine who owns, produces, and distributes the media as well as how media producers decide who is represented (and how they are represented) and who is left out. Course topics include media history, “fake news,” social media, data mining, and media representations of politics, the environment, race, gender, sexuality, class, family, and ability.
Additional Materials Required
The following books will be used to complete the coursework for Critical Media Literacy:
- The Media and Me: A Guide to Critical Media Literacy for Young People
- The Anatomy of Fake News: A Critical News Literacy Education
- Critical Media Literacy Teacher Edition - Digital (optional, but recommended)
Product Details
- Publisher: Oak Meadow, Inc.
- Publication date: January 2023
- Pages: 128
- Format: Digital ebook
