Education World Announces Lesson Plans on High-Profile Crime Cases
Education World Announces Lesson Plans on High-Profile Crime CasesAs media coverage of the Casey Anthony murder trial reaches a fever pitch, Education World announced today that it has developed a new, free lesson plan on Media Literacy and High-Profile Crime Cases. The lesson plan provides a special focus on the Anthony case. Timely resources such as this one, which helps students think critically about sensational stories in the news, have been increasingly popular with EducationWorld.com users.
San Diego, CA (PRWEB) June 15, 2011
As media coverage of the Casey Anthony murder trial reaches a fever pitch, Education World® announced today that it has developed a new, free lesson plan on Media Literacy and High-Profile Crime Cases . The lesson plan provides a special focus on the Anthony case. Timely resources such as this one, which helps students think critically about sensational stories in the news, have been increasingly popular with EducationWorld.com users.
Students today are inundated with media coverage of bad behavior and poor decision-making by adults. Educators want advice on how to address controversial topics, but often lesson plans are not available when they are needed.
Recent lesson plans on current events, such as the How to Handle Scandals series , have been among the most popular content on Education World, " The Educator's Best Friend™." More than 300,000 educators view millions of pages each month. Education World provides free K-12 resources to teachers, administrators and school technology coordinators to enhance instruction and improve student performance. The site was recently re-launched with an easy-to-use design. All resources are free all the time, and new content is added daily. Resources include K-12 lesson plans, professional development articles and more.
Education World's parent company is EDmin, based in San Diego. EDmin's focus is Connecting Educators to What Works. The company has been working with schools and districts for 20 years and serves nearly 4 million users in all 50 states and the international market. EDmin is best known for the INFORM® Learning System, an enterprise-level platform that integrates assessment, reporting, resource and community capabilities with an academic data warehouse. For more information, please visit edmin.com.
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High Profile Crime Unit Studies?
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16 Jun 2011 10:14 AM
Recently, Education World, released a unit study focusing on the Casey Anthony case for high school students. The unit study is free and under a section called Media Literacy and High Profile Crime Cases. To be sure this will not be the last high profile crime used in a lesson plan. I find this type of lesson plan distasteful. What can a child, even of high school age, learn from a criminal? Feeding a curiosity about murder is not education nor does it teach critical thinking as the lesson claims.
The lesson plan focuses on the Casey Anthony case. Through that case media coverage, sensationalism, and the differences in types of media used to cover a case. The concepts are not inappropriate. The manner in which it will be taught is inappropriate. Why should the Casey Anthony case further be sensationalized by making lesson plans for high schoolers about it? Why should Casey Anthony be given more fame, notoriety, and discussion? The lessons of media can easily be taught without highlighting murder. While I understand using a real world example to bring home the point, I think we have lost a d respect for victims of crimes. A student could easily study media by focusing on media coverage in general giving specific examples as opposed to using a criminal case a hook to grab the attention of students and teachers.
To back track a bit here are the student learning objectives: (copied directly from the site of the lesson plan which you can find HERE .)
Students gain "media literacy" skills-thinking critically, evaluating and analyzing news and information, and drawing one's own conclusions.
I have no issue with the student learning objectives. In fact, it sounds like a class I would love to teach. I am opposed to using a current murder case as the focal point instead of a simple discussion question. I think some are trying too hard to "sell" education to students rather than educate students.
Quote from the press release:
Students today are inundated with media coverage of bad behavior and poor decision-making by adults.
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