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will be the creators and not
just consumers of media texts.
The Learning Through the Arts (LTTA) Media Literacy Program guides students and
teachers through the challenging exploration of media. Media artists and teachers
work together, using technology and media as tools for learning, expression and
the development of critical thinking skills.
An LTTA Media Literacy unit begins with a media artist leading a technical workshop
for teachers. The artist-educator will then visit the classroom five times to
conduct an innovative media literacy lesson with the teacher.
LTTA Media Literacy Program
Media
literacy focuses on constructing meaning through several
media languages, including images, sound, graphics and
words. Producers of media consciously create and manipulate
these texts to affect an audience in a particular manner – we
engage students in deconstructing this process.
Each five lesson unit includes media exploration
actively
engaging students in:
- defining media literacy
- exploring the medium
- deconstructing media texts
- participating in a discourse encouraging critical thinking
- student creation of their own media text, for example exploring
gender stereotypes in commercials.
To find
out more about Learning Through the Arts
and the Media Literacy Program, contact
Karen McClellan
LTTA Coordinator for South Western Ontario:
Greater Essex County District School Board
451 Park Street West, Windsor, ON N9A 6K1
Phone 519-255-3200 ext 10279 Fax 519-255-1514 |
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