Topic 1: Curriculum
What brings you to Media Education? Why do you want to be a teacher of media? What experiences have you had of media teaching? What kind of media teacher do you want to be? What do you want to teach about the media? Was there are teacher who made an impact on you when you were a student? What made learning experiences at school positive and effective for you? I encourage you to think about these questions in the first week of the unit. This topic introduces you to the unit and the key curriculum documents for teaching about media: the Curriculum Framework, Curriculum Guide: Arts; and the Scope and Sequence document (Arts/Media). The Curriculum Framework frames the teaching of the Key learning Areas in WA (although this is changing with the implementation of the Australian Curriculum). In WA, media is largely studied within the Arts learning Area, although media is also taught in other subjects such as English. The Curriculum Guide provides detailed information on the concepts and content to be taught in Media, within the Art Learning Area. The Scope and Sequence document provides a syllabus guide for teachers on what to teach at each year level. Importantly, your understanding of these key documents and current theories of media and teaching should inform the teaching and assessing your do in your lower high school media classes. On successful completion of this topic you should be able to: describe the key components including requirements of this unit, and describe the key elements of the media curriculum as it applied to Western Australia. Resources 1. Welcome video: 2. Curriculum documents from the Curriculum Council3. Our Facebook page for ongoing discussions and resources 4. Stimulus for thinking about the state of Media Education at the beginning of the 21st century 5. Metro Magazine/Screen Education magazine containing articles, resources, programs of work, etc. 6. Australian Teachers of Media: an association for Media teachers
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Activities Participate in the brainstorm below: Focus Questions
1. Familiarise yourself with the components and requirements of this unit by reading the Unit Guide, this Learning Guide, and looking through the Unit Reader. 2. What approaches or perspectives of media education does Buckingham warn against? Why? 3.
What kind of media education does Buckingham endorse? Activities for External Students
1. Complete the reading focus questions. 2.
Familiarise yourself with this website. 3. Read the Curriculum Guide and Scope & Sequence. a. To what extent does the curriculum and syllabus align with your thoughts about and expectation of media and media teaching? 4. Complete the 'Getting to know the curriculum' activity below by opening the Word document. 5. Join the Media and Education Facebook page and Twitter (optional). 6. Fill in your preferred Topic/Week for presentation (Assignment 1) by clicking HERE. Workshop Activities
1. Students complete the following: Media teaching is... Media teaching should... 2. Introductory activity. Partner up and chat about: What ideas they hold about the media and media teaching? What they wish to get out of this unit? What similarities and differences exist between individual responses? Students introduce their partner. 3. Introduce students to the unit: topics, assessments, Media education, etc. 4. Students
decide which Topic they will present. Fill in your preferred Topic/Week for presentation (Assignment 1) by clicking HERE. 5. Form two groups and look through the curriculum document. In groups, dsicuss the following statements in relation to your Topic 1 readings and the curriculum: the curriculum aligns within my thoughts about and expectation of media and media teaching; there is nothing I could add to the curriculum to make it better; Media studies in WA does not resemble its roots as being a subject for non-academic, low ability students; what reputation did media studies have when you went to school and was this reputation justified? 5. ‘Getting to know the curriculum’ activity. Open the Word document below. 6. Issues in of the media. read this studnets experience at the herald sun as an internship. How could it be used int he classroom? http://printgraphics.net.au/myfiles/Farrago_5_2012/files/assets/basic-html/page27.html 7. Find articles related to this studnets' experience. How could you use it?
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