Page 5 - MIL Syllabus and Lesson Plans

Flipped-classroom activities/peer learning - students make&give presentations on: types
of communication; body language; first catalogues; first newspapers; telegraph;

telephone, etc.

MODULE 2. Media and media literacy

Media Types

Common modern myths

Media world and media literacy

Practical assignments

Project-based tasks based on doing research into various types of today’s media and

modern myths.

Doing research into the phenomenon of Mcdonalisation and find as many examples as

possible /‘McWorld’ and ‘McJob’ (for low-wage, non-unionised repetitive work) are

coined from the global spread of McDonald’s food chain. Because of the standardisation

of a narrow range of product in the 20,000+ McDonald’s outlets, and its identification

with US capitalism, the term often signifies a standardised, Americanised world/.

MODULE 3. Understanding the Role of Media and Information in Democracy

Citizenship and Freedom of Expression and Information

Access to Information

Understanding the News

Media and Information Ethics

Practical assignments

1. Explore images of migrants/refugees in mass media:

• How are today`s different migrating groups, or situations, represented, or under-

represented in the media?

• Do some media re-present certain frames, images, words and ‘scripts’ over and over

again, making certain discourses seem ‘natural’ and familiar?

• Does that help marginalise or even exclude other discourses?

2. Analyze some articles that raise migrant fears and made a list of the phrases used.

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