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Digital Media: Your Bias is Showing

SecondaryYear 10EnglishLearning through filmText AnalysisSocialEqualitySport

Summary

Learning intentions:

Students will...

  • explore implicit and explicit bias as displayed in media through language and analyse how such language choices empower or disempower, include or exclude. 

Success criteria:

Students can...

  • identify bias in media, both explicit and implicit 
  • examine language and determine whether it has been used for inclusivity and empowerment or exclusion and disempowerment
  • identify the author’s values, beliefs and/or attitudes as displayed in the piece, as well as the intended outcomes
  • analyse and evaluate how people, places, events and concepts are represented in texts and reflect contexts.

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