Media Literacy

 1. The paper focuses on what can be used to teach art to students, including using outside media to explain visual culture to students. This relates to the course because we use digital media and technology to understand ways to teach children about visual culture. The paper gives examples of what could be used and what has been used to teach children to use art to better understand and express cultural topics through visuals.
2. I do agree with Duncum that visual culture is like a rhizome, in that it can begin as something small and spread out in different directions and continue to grow. Depending on who, what, or where the visual culture is based, it affects what it develops into. Like brainstorming, where you begin with one thought then connect lines off to another idea and another, culture acts the same way, and as a result visual culture follows.
3. I could see myself using the pin, yarn example; having the kids make connections between different words and names and having them explain what each connection means. It is a simple example and there aren't really wrong answers.
4. This website was mainly about how to spot fake news on websites or misleading websites. Obviously you should read past the title, search for different articles to see the whole story, check the date, and if the website itself looks suspicious, it probably is. I thought that these were pretty common facts that I've learned through looking for research papers in the past, but it is understandable that some people can be fooled by websites that look authentic, or even websites like the Onion, that are satirical in nature.
5. "Reverse Image Search" - https://youtu.be/dQQ1UsclrZI   I would use this video in the classroom by showing it to the students, then directing them to find an image online of a landscape image that they find beautiful, then reverse image search to find out where in the world that picture is of. From there they can make a project based on their place of interest, and either work off that image or research the culture of that country.
6. From the spot pdf, I thought that I could create a lesson plan based on advertising hooks. For older students, in a high school level, I would ask them to find an advertisement in a magazine of their choice, (I could bring in old magazines for students who forgot or couldn't get one themselves), then analyze it, find the hook, or the reason it is successful, what grabs your attention and why. Then, using the image on one side and drawing on the other side (diptych), draw the outline of the image then write in words what it is that it is selling and how it is successful, in a way exploiting the ad and finding humor in the honesty. What is the ad trying to do, and how is it manipulating you?

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