Unit Plan: The Effect and Influence of Advertisements

Given the importance and significance of media education, I would like to share with you my unit plan, The Effect and Influence of Advertisements that explores the topic of media literacy, more specifically, the effect and influence of advertisements. The following website will present a number of lesson plans that touch upon a subject matter that is of great importance in today’s times. While advertising can be seen as a form of art, in which it convinces people to spend money they don’t have on something they truly have no need for, it also plays a very significant role as an influential media text that we need to think more about, react to and become further educated about the messages that they are subliminally sending us

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Media Education - Gender Identity

This is a short video that I created for a course at McGill University, Media, Technology and Education (EDEC 262-001). The video, which is embedded below, explores the subject of gender identity, media and its overall effect on children's gender formations.

Media Violence: Why is it Used to Abuse Children?

This is powerpoint that I created that delves deep into an exploration of Media Literacy: A Reader's chapter fifty-six, Media Violence: Why is it Used to Abuse Children? How to Oppose It and Win. The powerpoint is attached below for your own viewing.