It's important that students know how to identify and name problematic messaging in the media they consume. From Facebook to Twitter to Television and Websites, our students view hundreds of advertisements a day. Having already seen how problematic messaging exists in the media we consume, in our past lesson, this lesson will arm our students … Continue reading Gender Lesson: Using the Media Triangle to Annotate Advertisements
The Media Triangle was first created by Eddie Dick, and has since been used as a way for people to fully analyze the messages and meanings of media texts. By focusing not only on the text itself, but also the audience, and the production, one is able to tease out complex concepts that might otherwise go … Continue reading Introducing The Media Triangle
Advertisements often have problematic gender messaging; however, advertisements can also be used to combat negative messaging, drawing attention to problematic norms. Building on the negative messaging from The Past is Present - Part 1 students should have a strong notion of the problematic messages that are inherenant in media pieces, and gendered advertisements. This lesson will … Continue reading Gender Lesson: The Past is Present – Part 2
Ads from past generations had problematic messaging. This has not changed. The negative gender normative messages will be addressed in this lesson. Having already familiarized students with the concepts raised from The Gender Box, and enhanced through the study of the short story X: A Fabulous Child's Story it's time to take those concepts and use them … Continue reading Gender Lesson: The Past is Present – Part 1
Whether you've arrived here as part of the larger Gender Representation Unit, or while searching for a strong short story to use with your students, X: A Fabulous Child's Story by Lois Gould is perfect for your classroom. A copy of the story can be purchased online or downloaded from The Gender Centre (currently the fourth link from the top at the time … Continue reading X: A Fabulous Child’s Story – Literacy Skills Review
By confronting prejudices and allowing students to speak openly about their experiences, the foundation developed from from The Toy Box is strengthened with shared experiences and concepts. Students will look further into the gender normative roles they may feel they need to fulfill. This lesson is part of a large mini-unit on Teaching Gender Representation in the … Continue reading Gender Lesson: The Gender Box
Regardless of age, everyone has a memory of a toy that they loved when they were a child, or a toy they wanted but they were never given. The things we play with help determine the people we grow into. This lesson focuses on separating boy toys from girl toys while pausing to take a look at why we … Continue reading Gender Lesson: The Toy Box
Now that you have learned all about Choose Our Way tales and how to create them using Twine 2 you may want to print physical hardcopies of the tutorial. Feel free to distribute my sheets for non-commercial purposes. Examples of apps made using this method can be found at: Sammi's Quest: Google Play Store A Free Demo … Continue reading Twine 2 / Choose Our Way tale: Downloadable Resources
In our last part you learned how to write a Choose Our Way tale with Twine 2, and share it on a website so that it could be shared with people outside of the classroom. Now you will learn how to transform your Twine 2 story into an Android APK App file which can be played on … Continue reading Converting Twine 2 Stories to Android APK Apps for the Google Play Store
Twine 2 is a piece of software that allows you to create Choose Our Way tales. In our last parts you learned about palm stories, familiarized yourself with the basics of choose our way tales, and then learned how to write basic choose our way tales. Now we'll look at how to digitize those tales using Twine 2. … Continue reading Using Twine 2 to Create Chooseable Path Stories
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