Elementary schoolers, meet media literacy : how teachers can bring economics, media, and marketing to life /

"This teaching manual supplies lessons designed for elementary students (grades 1 - 5) that establish a concrete foundation for skill-building in recognizing, deconstructing, evaluating, and choosing for themselves whether to accept a tangible product or intangible message. Students will learn...

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Main Authors: Wasserman, Jim, 1961- (Author), Loveland, David W., 1973- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, [2020]
Series:Media, marketing, & me series.
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Summary:"This teaching manual supplies lessons designed for elementary students (grades 1 - 5) that establish a concrete foundation for skill-building in recognizing, deconstructing, evaluating, and choosing for themselves whether to accept a tangible product or intangible message. Students will learn to become active, rather than passive, receivers of messaging, providing a gateway for them to then hone their media literacy skills further as they develop more abstract analytical proficiency"--
Item Description:Chapter 1: Can Elementary Students Learn Economics and Media Literacy -- Chapter 2: Marketing & Media : The Twin Pillars of American Society -- Chapter 3: Introduction to Basic Economics (The Objective Study of Choice) -- Chapter 4: Behavioral Economics : How we are "Nudged" While Making our Choices -- Chapter 5: Coolness : The Super Nudge -- Chapter 6: Seeking Media Lit's Holy GRAIL : Consumer Demographics -- Chapter 7: An Age-old Question : Age and Consumerism -- Chapter 8: Child's Play or Child's Pay? : Children, Consumerism, and Media -- Chapter 9: Media Literacy, Relativity, and Persuasion -- Chapter 10: Telling the Truth.
Physical Description:xi, 154 pages ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9781475842234
1475842236
9781475842241
1475842244