Middle Schoolers, Meet Media Literacy
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A01=David W. Loveland
A01=Jim Wasserman
Author_David W. Loveland
Author_Jim Wasserman
behavioral economics
Category=JNT
Category=KC
Category=KJS
economics
eighth grade
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eq_business-finance-law
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eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
eq_society-politics
Holy GRAIL
lesson plans
lessons
marketing
media literacy
middle school
neoclassical economics
persuasion
professional development
seventh grade
sixth grade
study of choice
tweens
young teens
Product details
- ISBN 9781475842173
- Weight: 449g
- Dimensions: 160 x 230mm
- Publication Date: 19 Jan 2019
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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In a world of media saturation, children today are not future consumers of information and goods, but targeted participants involved in a game in which they don’t know the rules or even that they are playing, yet one that will affect them throughout their lives. This book is a teaching manual that helps teachers not only explain the concepts of consumer economics and media literacy to middle schoolers but supplies lessons for students to get hands-on experience recognizing, deconstructing, evaluating, and choosing for themselves whether to accept the tangible product or intangible message offered. Teachers can use the lessons to help students build a toolbox of analytical skills that they can carry with them and develop further throughout the rest of their lives to distinguish information from persuasion, from what people tell them they should believe to what the students, through critical thinking, decide is worthy of their belief.
A former business litigation attorney, Jim Wasserman has spent the last 25 years teaching media literacy, economics, government and history. He currently resides in Granada, Spain with his wife and entourage of sycophantic cats.
Dave Loveland’s liberal arts education of studying ancient language, culture, religion, and literature have been instrumental in understanding the effects of media literacy through time. A career educator living in Dallas, Texas, Dave teaches 8th grade Humanities with an emphasis on American history and language arts.
