Technology is integrated into our everyday life and children do not know a world without information at their fingertips, literally.
The way we engage with media, including social media platforms, is evolving at great pace and it’s important that we engage and teach children to access, analyse, and create media in the context of their lived experience.
Those born between 2010-2025 are the most diverse generation yet. Raised in a digital world, hyperconnected, independent and distinct. Children are increasingly communicating from the isolation of their phones and less and less play outdoors. Many are living in a physically isolated and sedentary world. Undoubtedly technology brings many benefits, but the hours spent wide eyed in the middle of the night drinking in the brutality of the online world is far from a healthy lifestyle.
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Media Navigated is a series of lessons designed to build media literacy in a way that children can recognise the similarities and differences between the online world and the physical world.
Primary schools. The lessons are designed for upper primary students aged 9-11.
It delivers the statutory requirements that state by the end of primary school children should know:
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These lessons are available alongside training facilitated by Bounce Forward.
We have regular training dates to choose from.
Media literacy is a set of skills that anyone can learn. Just as literacy is the ability to read and write, media literacy is the ability to access, analyse, and create media messages of all kinds.
We receive information and communicate with each other using a variety of media tools and technologies. These may include social platforms, apps, television, films, radio, songs, books, billboards, labels, marketing, video, on-line gaming, websites.
Being media literate means being more informed to be able to make better decisions about how to engage and take notice of the media messages.
The goal is to help pupils -
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