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Download full textFortuna, 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
