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Download full textReppert, James E. – 1996
An instructor uses a unique instructional paradigm in his MCOM 1003/Introduction to Mass Communication course at Southern Arkansas University (SAU) in a unit on media and politics. According to his students, one of the most popular learning strategies is the use of original edited videos that focus on dubious practices by some media professionals.…
Descriptors: Audience Response, Broadcast Journalism, Critical Viewing, Higher Education
Peer reviewedSkretta, John – English Journal, 1997
Discusses a high school unit involving the cartoon characters "Beavis" and "Butt-head." Examines how social values and social conflicts affect and mirror language use. Describes Beavis and Butt-head projects, and objections to the unit. Argues that schools must embrace nonprint texts to help students become skilled, literate,…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Critical Thinking, Critical Viewing, English Instruction
Fortuna, Carolyn – 2001
This paper describes a unit of instruction about media images--how they work, ways they affect people, and means to use them--in which young adolescents learn the consequences of becoming a media-literate consumer. The paper explains that in the unit, divided into 2 "clusters," 110 Boston-area eighth graders share 5 core academic…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Critical Viewing, Early Adolescents, Grade 8
