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• The artifact, "Image Is Not Everything", is a web page created primarily for the use of a fifth grade instructor.  It could also be used for students to access.  It was produced for my media literacy class during my Block experience in the Spring of 2000 at Appalachian State University.  It was produced as a means of assistance in planning a lesson on media literacy.  It is a lesson about body image, and the impact the media has on society's philosophy on the perfect body image.  This lesson stresses the importance of self-esteem by demonstrating how media can alter and shadow images to create a "perfect picture".

 

 

The strategies and knowledge represented in this artifact will be applied to the NC Standard Course of Study.  The lesson corresponds to the NC Standard Course of Study for both Language Arts and Information Skills.  This web page contains a lesson plan that can be used by other teachers.  Also, it contains a reflection on the process of teaching this lesson, which would assist any teacher who was considering teaching a lesson about body image and media literacy. 

This lesson uses a variety of media and media communication tools that create learning experiences that are appropriate to the learner.  It requires the student to access the Internet to download images, as well as uses newspapers, magazines and possibly video to locate images; both altered and shadowed, to analyze their validity (12.7).  Teachers can access related links that I placed in an annotated links section (10.3).   The students could also alter their own images to further demonstrate how images appear from what is not there (11.4). The North Carolina Computer Skills Curriculum objectives covered in my lesson are: 1.1 Recognize the influence of technology on life in the United States, and 2.1 Use technology tools to collect, analyze, and display data.  The discipline here is media literacy, which can be defined as the ability to read and write media.  The students will be writing their own media, as well as reading into media images (10.1).