TIE535 Building Active Learning Environments Media Literacy Final Project

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Purpose: You are going to be creating a Project Based Learning activity to teach your students about media literacy. You will be creating a website / webpage on current site to publish your project idea and host resources for students to learn about media literacy. Then provide a lesson idea/outline with a final project (based on a new eb !." tool# that helps students understand the importance of being media literate in the !$st %entury. You must include a finished e&ample you created of the final eb !." project for your students to use as a guide. Task: or'ing individually( you will create a visually appealing webpage for a project based learning activity around )edia Literacy. Introduction to your project and defining Media Literacy Learning E perience spelled out for students! o "escription of #$at you #ant t$e students to understand as a result of your project% o List of #$at &no#ledge and s&ills you 'elieve t$e students #ill gain #$ile developing t$eir projects% o (rite an o'jective)s* for your learning activity% At least one o'jective $as to 'e top t#o levels of Bloom+s Ta onomy! evaluating or creating Final project section! ($at is t$e final project t$e students #ill 'e creating after learning a'out media literacy, o -reate and descri'e a real #orld scenario for t$e project t$e students #ill 'e completing 'y assigning t$em a role in t$e scenario. descri'e t$e setting and #$o t$e audience #ill 'e for t$e final project% For e ample. a real #orld scenario mig$t 'e placing t$e student in t$e role of maga/ine editor. creating a presentation of negative images of people in media using t$e tool. 0tory'ird )$ttp!11story'ird%com1* to present to t$eir staff% o T$e final project s$ould 'e 'ased on a (e' 2%3 tool ne# to you% 4ou #ill 'e creating a sample of t$e final project as an e ample% Em'ed your e ample (e' 2%3 tool on your #e'site At least 5 lin&s to additional sites supporting your project )lin& opens in a ne# #indo#* At least 2 video resources em'edded #it$in t$e #e' resource At least 5 images and. or grap$ics on t$e site An aut$ors page #it$ your picture )avatar*. s$ort 'io. s$ort summary )672 paragrap$s* of your educational p$ilosop$y and contact email address -opyrig$t Page listing all references for images 8 resources Bonus )voluntary*! create a s$ort 375 minute screencast overvie# of your project and resource site% Em'ed your screencast on your site% Due Date

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