Today: tips for decoding, gender
- lunch: decoding prep
- pm: coaching – optional to 6pm
Thursday: Morning workshops and practice decoding sessions
- pm: coaching – optional to 6pm
Friday: presentations and lunch end by 3pm

tie to your goals:
• teach skills
• teach knowledge
• address standards
• support testing make it constructivist listen to student meaning making limit our tendency to talk at our students focus on questioning and probing

David Considine
Literary Elements: plot, setting, point of view, character development
Cinematic Techniques: type of shots, camera angles, lighting and color, symbolism and metaphor, pacing, transitions, acting, dialogue, music

Start with your goals make it inquiry based – constructivist balance content and literacy

Videos demonstrating
Constructivist Media Decoding

Coming soon to the PLS web site:
Bias in Maps

Pair Share about media decoding
How does this process apply to your context?
What are your reactions, concerns or questions about
Media Decoding?

6 principles
5 questiosn real bugas community slides + video africa slides
Iroquois
Iroquois collage peru 2 slides war looksharp

Fair-Use Statement
In order to teach students to be critical thinkers and literate democratic citizens in our media age teachers must train students to critique and analyze many different contemporary and historic media texts in multiple subject areas. Project Look
Sharp invokes the fair-use provision of copyright law to provide teachers with media documents for the purpose of critical decoding in an educational context.

Be aware of your own meaning making

Listen to the meaning making of your students

Critiquing students ’ popular culture

Develop student ’ s analytical skills through decoding less charged more distanced - documents

Ithaca City School District
Project Look Sharp
Ithaca College from: Heroes of the Dark Continent published 1890

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Ithaca City School District
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Ithaca College
LIFE Magazine
1961

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Ithaca College
1960 O.Maslyakov, Ye. Tsvik
Good morning, Africa!

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Ithaca College
1839 portrait of
Sengbe
Pieh
By
Nathaniel
Jocelyn

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