Middle Schoolers, Meet Media Literacy

How Teachers Can Bring Economics, Media, and Marketing to Life

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Middle Schoolers, Meet Media Literacy

How Teachers Can Bring Economics, Media, and Marketing to Life

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In a world of media saturation, children today are not future consumers of information and goods, but targeted participants involved in a game in which they don’t know the rules or even that they are playing, yet one that will affect them throughout their lives. This book is a teaching manual that helps teachers not only explain the concepts of consumer economics and media literacy to middle schoolers but supplies lessons for students to get hands-on experience recognizing, deconstructing, evaluating, and choosing for themselves whether to accept the tangible product or intangible message offered. Teachers can use the lessons to help students build a toolbox of analytical skills that they can carry with them and develop further throughout the rest of their lives to distinguish information from persuasion, from what people tell them they should believe to what the students, through critical thinking, decide is worthy of their belief.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1: Marketing & Media: The Twin pillars of American Society

Chapter 2: Introduction to Basic Neoclassical Economics (The Objective Study of Choice)

Chapter 3: Behavioral Economics (How we are “Nudged” while Making our Choices)

Chapter 4: Coolness: The Super Nudge

Chapter 5: Seeking Media Lit’s Holy GRAIL (Consumer Demographics)

Chapter 6: An Age-old Question (Media Lit and children)

Chapter 7: Tween Centrics (media lit, tweens, and young teens)

Chapter 8: Media Literacy, Relativity, and Persuasion

Chapter 9: Telling the Truth

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Published Jan 19 2019
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 204
ISBN 9781475842173
Imprint Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Illustrations 5 b/w illustrations; 5 b/w photos; 10 tables; 1 textbox
Dimensions 230 x 160 mm
Series Media, Marketing, & Me
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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