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Media and meaning making

Develop media literacy and critical thinking skills.

This matrix has a wide variety of engaging activities to support media making and development of critical thinking skills.

Media and meaning making school activity page.

Resources

Media and making meaning – matrix

A learning resource with tiles with activities written on them.
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Media literacy basics

Media literacy basics

Help students understand media literacy with comics by Kate and Jol Temple, and David Conley.

Media literacy basics
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Political cartoons in the classroom

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