Teach your students about stereotypes

Here is this weeks digital literacy activity.  This 2 hour lesson focuses on stereotypes.  What are they?  How do we use them to engage our audience?  And what happens when we challenge the stereotypes of characters? there is an interactive activity for students to create an advertising campaign and a task to identify famous characters that challenge and support our stereotypes.  The original presentation is available hereor you can simply view it as a slideshare below.  Hope you enjoy and look forward to your feedback.

Digital literacies activity 4 stereotypes

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Digital Literacy lesson: Explanation Texts

here is another digital literacies task for you based around Explanation Texts, reading and creating them.  There is a slidehare below or you can download the original file here.  Enjoy

Digital literacies explanation texts

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Inferential Reading and Writing Lesson for your students

Here is a little lesson I put together for my kids to better understand inferential reading.  It has both reading and writing tasks associated to it.  You can directly download it here or just view the slideshare below.  Enjoy.

Digital literacies inferential reading writing

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The 7 Elements of digital Storytelling every teacher and student should know

The university of Houston have put together what is possibly the most comprehensive collection of tools, resources and media to assist teachers and students in better understanding the Educational uses of digital Storytelling.

My school is a big believer in digital storytelling through podcasting, film, green-screening and digital portfolios.  And this is reflected in the level of enthusiasm the students have towards turning their ideas into a piece of rich media they can share with the world as opposed to simply writing it in a book.

I might get shot for saying it by many teachers around me but I really enjoy a good film or doco than reading a book as I am obviously a visual learner.  This may have always been the case for many others but the only difference is today it is possible to create a visual literacy on a shoe string budget that I can share with the world overnight.

Be sure to check it out here and I have also included a video below that highlights how important visual texts have been within our lives and how this should impact upon our teaching.  I would love to hear your thoughts and experiences with visual texts.