If you've been following recent posts, we have been working on Media Literacy. The task students have how undertaken is to deliberately construct news articles with bias.
As part of critical thinking, students must be able to assess their own work and provide constructive feedback to others. Today they will take their articles and explain decisions they made in order to create bias. This process will be modeled. One student's work will go under the document camera and the student will be interviewed. The rest of the class will observe this process so that they can provide effective prompting and feedback when working with a peer.
Constructing Bias in News Articles: Self-Assessment with Peer Support
Describe how you used the following techniques.
1. Bias through omission and selection.
Which information did you choose to leave out, which did you choose to include? Why?
2. Bias by headline.
Explain your headlines and what effect you were hoping they would have on the reader. Are they
effective?
3. Bias by photo, caption and camera angle.
Explain your image choices.
4. Bias through names and title. (ex: club member vs. gang member)
Explain how you referred to the drivers in your articles.
5. Bias through word choice and tone.
Explain your word choices and how you chose to explain the event. Do your word choices lead
the reader to draw conclusions?
As part of critical thinking, students must be able to assess their own work and provide constructive feedback to others. Today they will take their articles and explain decisions they made in order to create bias. This process will be modeled. One student's work will go under the document camera and the student will be interviewed. The rest of the class will observe this process so that they can provide effective prompting and feedback when working with a peer.
Constructing Bias in News Articles: Self-Assessment with Peer Support
Describe how you used the following techniques.
1. Bias through omission and selection.
Which information did you choose to leave out, which did you choose to include? Why?
2. Bias by headline.
Explain your headlines and what effect you were hoping they would have on the reader. Are they
effective?
3. Bias by photo, caption and camera angle.
Explain your image choices.
4. Bias through names and title. (ex: club member vs. gang member)
Explain how you referred to the drivers in your articles.
5. Bias through word choice and tone.
Explain your word choices and how you chose to explain the event. Do your word choices lead
the reader to draw conclusions?
6 .What other bias techniques did you use?
7. How has this process affected your understanding of news reporting?
7. How has this process affected your understanding of news reporting?
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