I'd like to continue my series of activities for developing students' multimodal literacies. These build on work I've done earlier with design a syllabus and based on multimodal literacies and sub-skills: https://view.genially.com/6807be9c981a75ebf54d4d19
This activity is based on developing Critical Literacy and the sub-skill of Deconstructing stereotypes & representations - Exploring how people, cultures, genders, and groups are portrayed in texts and how these portrayals can reinforce or challenge stereotypes.
The activity is - Message Mapping: Given a news story or social campaign, students draw a diagram showing who benefits and who might lose out.
How to use this:
This example comes from a recent news broadcast in which Nigel Farage makes the unfounded allegation that immigrants are stealing and eating swans. He makes the claim that it is part of their culture. The interview is available here: https://youtube.com/shorts/0ImBR-PAmro?si=2FcbHocy9M_KPYQN
with the implication that it isn't a 'British' thing to do.
- Show students the image and ask them how it makes them feel.
- Ask if they know who the man is.
- Play the interview clip.
- Ask students to think about how this interview impacts on the following groups of people and which ones benefit from it and how they benefit.
- Nigel Farage
- Nik Farrari - The interviewer
- The people who follow Nigel Farage
- The people who financially support Nigel Farage
- The people who oppose Nigel Farage.
- Who else may this interview impact?
- Ask students to research and find information about the eating of swans in the UK.
If you would like to encourage your students to think more critically so that they don't believe this kind of rubbish, the you can get my book on Developing Critical Thinking Skill with AI here: https://payhip.com/b/NqAto
I hope you find the activity useful and you're able to integrate it into your own teaching materials and practice.
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