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Description: What part does the media play in influencing our perceptions of ourselves, each other, and the world around us? How has our consumer culture changed the way we express our identities? And how can we encourage our media-saturated youth to become more conscious and aware? This presentation offers a short summary of our most effective games and activities to use to enhance your students' media literacy.

Subject: Revised Curriculum; Arts Education; Cross-Curricular; Teaching Strategies; English Language Arts

Keywords: superconference; Media literacy; consumerism; media education; multimedia

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consciousness-in-consumer-society-october-2017-superconference-summary.pdf	application/pdf

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Resource Type: Activity; Assessment; Classroom printable; Lesson plan/Unit plan; Worksheet; Presentation

Resource Type: Activity; Assessment; Classroom printable; Lesson plan/Unit plan; Worksheet; Presentation

Description: Dancing Backwards Society's free, downloadable school program, www.dancingbackwards.ca, celebrates Canada's women in political leadership and Indigenous women in governance. This online course for teachers of grades 5-8 focuses on engaged citizenship, gender equality, and the need for gender parity in decision making. The program provides teachers with multi-media lesson plans and activities that culminate in a final project in which students discover and document the story of one political woman in leadership or governance in Canada. Their 3-minute storytellings are then added to the website’s ever-expanding Her Story Archive, cementing women’s political contributions into history. Dancing Backwards satisfies various curriculum criteria for BC and all other provinces in Social Studies, English, Arts Education, and History (https://www.dancingbackwards.ca/the-program/learning-standards-outcomes-by-province

Subject: Arts Education; Social Justice; English Language Arts; Social Studies

Keywords: women's rights; human rights; cultural partnerships; status of women

Learning Standards: Core Competencies, Big Ideas, Learning Standards: https://www.dancingbackwards.ca/program-appendices/31-learning-outcomes-by-province

Duration: Ideally 1-2 hrs/ per week over 8 week period, but flexible to fit teachers' schedule

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