Understanding stereotype

Students drew aliens of their choice and the class has an intensive discussion on the stereotype found in their drawings. they also analysed many TV ads and newspaper ads to understand the concept better.

Guest speakers- Ms Cathy and Ms Richa

Ms Cathy the drama teacher from senior school  and Ms Richa the ICT teacher from primary school spoke to the kids about the role of drama and Technology in influencing the audience. They also focused on how these  forms of media has changed over time to influence the people and why these changes have come in. 

Tuning into the concept of Impact

The teacher discussed about some of the problems that exists in the society and asked the students how did they get to know about all that is happening in their country and world. They were asked to tell the various mediums through which they get to know about the issues. They were also shown some clippings on some of the issues existing in the society and were asked as to how they impact us and others.

Mr. Krishnendu Bose’s talk session- Guest speaker for media and its impact on the audience

Grade 4 had an exciting session with Mr Krishnendu Bose and Mr Nandan for our unit on Media under the Transdiciplinary theme ‘How we express ourselves’. Mr Krishnendu Bose, the Managing Trustee of ECO ( Earthcare Outreach Trust) is a documentary filmmaker who specialises in making films on environment conservation and people’s rights. He has been in this field for the past 2 years under the banner of Earthcare Films. At ECO they make children and adults join their trust in exploring limits of their creativity and imagination to create empowered communication around their lives by using visual media. Their special focus is in working with children in the area of environment communication. ECO is a non-profit trust based in India. 
The presentations made by Mr Bose was filled with a lot of information and focussed on how different forms of media are used to communicate throughout the world. He showed the students ads created by children.He also showed us a two minute animation on the environment where the students realised that every aspect of the environment has its own importance. The students were able to connect and reflected on the animation well.
The session was truly enriching for all of us as we all understood the fact that we all are driven my media and have our own perspectives to all the different forms of it.
We, at Grade 4 , wish to take this forward and engage children in exploring the different kinds of media and use it to present their understanding.

Research on different types of media

The students were asked to research on any one kind of media using the guiding questions provided to them. Some of them made ppts, while others made their presentation on an A3 sheet. They then presented their work to their peers.

Different types of media

     Different types of media were displayed on a table in the classroom. The students took a a walk in the class, observed all the types of media and then the class had an extensive discussion on the different kinds of media they saw, its use, the target audience, its impact etc. After the class discussion the different kinds of media were classified into three categories-

1.       Audio visual Media

2.      Visual Media and

3.      Electronic media

Prior knowledge assessment

The students picked up the issue that they had listed down for their formative on Choose, Act and Reflect. They reflected on what form of expression they would use to tell about it to the world to stop, their friends, their teacher, help/maid etc. They also reflected on  why they used that form, its impact on others etc.

Unit 2: MEDIA:Tuning into the Central idea

The students were given Central idea all jumbled up. They unscrambled the words to arrive at a meaningful central idea and reflected on it as a group.

Lines of inquiry, key concepts and related concepts were addressed too.

Reflections

Children reflected on the unit citing what they learnt, what they did well and what they would like to do better. They also created a personal goal which would help them to organise themselves.