STANDARD-BASED GLOBAL EDUCATION UPDATES

Modified Standards For Global Education
MEDIA ANALYSIS (“Beyond Media”)
 1. Information Literacy Standards for Student Learning (AASL AND AECT, 1998)
Standard 2: The student who is information literate evaluates information critically and competently.
2. Examine and evaluate information for its accuracy and relevancy to determine particular aspects of developing nations.
3. Taking examples of sensationalism and bias in media with natural disasters, students find online sources using a resource like Google News. Students work in small groups to deconstruct four news articles. They must analyze and chart how each article objectively- factually, covers the 5W’s- who, what, when, where, why.  Along with the articles they should find photographs that support the facts.
4. As the summative assessment, each student must identify at least two missing elements in his/her story, groups answer essential questions, and present their discoveries via web 2.0 tool.

MEDIA PROMOTION (“Celebrities”)
1.International Society for Technology in Education Student Standards, ISTE
Standard 1. Creativity and Innovation
Students demonstrate creative thinking, construct knowledge, and develop innovative products and processes using technology.
2. After an introduction on “developing nation” and “global development,” and looking at celebrities and their causes, Students will develop a media campaign based on what role a popular culture celebrity played in a global issue.
3. Students research a specific global development cause, program, or organization and specify why they’ve chosen it. The media campaign they design must publicize and build support for their choosen issue. Choosing a medium ( TV, online, video, print, etc), possible audience, selection, determine level of celebrity involvement, if any, and kinds of promotional images.
4. Students will include a written overview which includes a list of suggested media products. They will prepare a pseudo-campaign product using a web 2.0 tool- Web page, Fakebook, Voki, Animoto, or some combination. Along with the list, and product they will also include a brief justification for their choice.

BEST ONLINE INFORMATION ("Finding and Authenticating”)
1. International Society for Technology in Education Student Standards, ISTE
 Standard 3. Research and Information Fluency
Students apply digital tools to gather, evaluate, and use information.
2. Students use strategies for using the Internet to research global development issues.
3. Students research a global development topic, evaluate online information on the global topic, and find multiple sources of information on a global development topic and assess which is most appropriate for a variety of purposes.

4. After lesson on effective searching and purposes of online information, students use an article such as http://www.progressio.org.uk/content/say-no-terminator-seeds or similar to evaluate the online source.

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