I provided the students with an online poster produced by the World Health Organization titled, How To Wear a Medical Mask Safely. The posters and videos we had read and viewed on our first day of class became our material to critique. Then we began to practice our media literacy critical thinking skills. You can find the Pre-viewing Activity as a pdf here. You can find the Pre-viewing Activity as a Google Doc here. It was fascinating to see the responses the students wrote to these prompts. They are being prompted to write three sentences on why they are wearing masks during this season of COVID-19. This activity provides the students with a choice of three sentence-starters. So, it was important to start with a “previewing” activity. All of us had been navigating life through a pandemic in different circumstances. We hadn’t been together as a school community for about 6 months. Like most teachers during this worldwide pandemic, I started the course by reviewing the rules we need to follow for us all to be safe. A culminating writing activity in which students reflect upon and explain their design choices. A culminating art activity in which students apply their graphic language and media literacy learning to the creation of their own mask designs.ĩ. A viewing activity helps students understand and apply media literacy key concepts.Ĩ. A pre-production paragraph-writing activity prepares students to imagine their own mask designs.ħ. A compare-and-contrast activity further helps students understand visual codes and conventions.Ħ. A graphic reading activity helps students understand how to read graphics using media literacy concepts.ĥ. A news reading activity helps students understand the inverted-pyramid news story structure.Ĥ. An infographic reading activity helps them think about visual codes and conventions.ģ. A pre-viewing activity helps students think about their attitudes towards face masks.Ģ. It describes nine sequential student activities, some with slides and some with scaffolding worksheets.ġ. This ambitious and rich unit integrates r eading, writing, art, presentation and media literacy. The podcast can be an additional educational experience for students and can be found here. Irene Faiz also guested on Mediacy, The Association for Media Literacy podcast, providing her observations on the art and politics of pandemic face masks. Teachers needing other formats can convert them to their preferred formats. It is recommended that you ‘open in a new tab’ so that you can stay on the Masking and Unmasking page. As such, they will ask you to open them as copies of Google Docs and Slides, which you can then use as-is or revise as needed. Tech notes: These documents were built using Google tools. I plan to use many of these activities when I teach Visual Arts in upcoming quadmesters this school year. This media literacy unit on COVID-19 masks was designed for a Grade 10 Secondary English class.
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