Critical Challenge: Media and Ideologies

Specific Outcomes

This critical challenge may address these outcomes:

Curriculum Outcomes Addressed: 30-1

Specific Outcome 1.1	-	Students will appreciate various perspectives regarding identity and ideology (PADM, TCC, I)
Specific Outcome 1.3	-	Students will explore factors that may influence individual and collective beliefs and values (culture, language, media, relationship to land, environment, gender, religion, spirituality, ideology) (I, C, LPP)
Specific Outcome 1.10	-	Students will evaluate the extent to which personal identity should be shaped by ideologies (I, C)
Specific Outcome S.1.1	-	Students will evaluate ideas and information from multiple sources
Specific Outcome S.1.3	-	Students will assess the validity of information based on context, bias, sources, objectivity, evidence or reliability
Specific Outcome S.1.5	-	Students will evaluate personal assumptions and opinions to develop an expanded appreciation of a topic or an issue
Specific Outcome S.1.7	-	Students will evaluate the logic of assumptions underlying a position
Specific Outcome S.2.6	-	Students will identify reasons underlying similarities and differences among historical narratives
Specific Outcome S.3.6	-	Students will assess how human interaction impacts geopolitical realities
Specific Outcome S.4.1	-	Students will analyze multiple historical and contemporary perspectives within and across cultures
Specific Outcome S.4.4	-	Students will compare similarities and differences among historical narratives
Specific Outcome S.5.6	-	Students will develop a reasoned position that is informed by historical and contemporary evidence
Specific Outcome S.4.1	-	Students will demonstrate leadership in groups to achieve consensus, solve problems, formulate positions and take action, if appropriate, on important issues
Specific Outcome S.5.6	-	Students will collaborate in groups to solve problems
Specific Outcome S.6.2	-	Students will acknowledge the importance of multiple perspectives in a variety of situations
Specific Outcome S.7.1	-	Students will develop, express and defend an informed position on an issue
Specific Outcome S.7.3	-	Students will draw pertinent conclusions based on evidence derived from research
Specific Outcome S.7.4	-	Students will demonstrate proficiency in the use of research tools and strategies to investigate issues
Specific Outcome S.7.5	-	Students will consult a wide variety of sources, including oral histories, that reflect varied viewpoints on particular issues
Specific Outcome S.7.8	-	Students will select and analyze relevant information when conducting research
Specific Outcome S.8.1	-	Students will communicate effectively to express a point of view in a variety of situations
Specific Outcome S.8.2	-	Students will use skills of formal and informal discussion and/or debate to persuasively express informed viewpoints on an issue
Specific Outcome S.8.5	-	Students will use a variety of oral, visual and print sources to present informed positions on issues
Specific Outcome S.8.8	-	Students will compose, revise and edit text
Specific Outcome S.9.1	-	Students will assess the authority, reliability and validity of electronically accessed information
Specific Outcome S.9.2	-	Students will evaluate the validity of various points of view presented in the media
Specific Outcome S.9.4	-	Students will analyze the impact of various forms of media, identifying complexities and discrepancies in the information and making distinctions between sound generalizations and misleading oversimplification

Curriculum Outcomes Addressed: 30-2

Specific Outcome 1.1	-	Students will appreciate various perspectives regarding identity and ideology (PADM, ER, TCC)
Specific Outcome 1.3		Students will explore factors that may influence individual and collective beliefs and values (culture, language, media, relationship to land, environment, gender, religion, spirituality, ideology) (I, C, LPP)
Specific Outcome 1.10	-	Students will analyze the extent to which personal identity should be shaped by ideologies (I, C)
Specific Outcome S.1.1	-	Students will analyze ideas and information from multiple sources
Specific Outcome S.1.3	-	Students will determine the validity of information based on context, bias, sources, objectivity, evidence or reliability
Specific Outcome S.1.5	-	Students will evaluate personal assumptions and opinions
Specific Outcome S.1.6	-	Students will determine the strengths and weaknesses of arguments
Specific Outcome S.1.9	-	Students will identify main ideas underlying a position or issue
Specific Outcome S.4.1	-	Students will demonstrate skills needed to reach consensus, solve problems and formulate positions
Specific Outcome S.4.2	-	Students will use inquiry processes to make decisions and solve problems
Specific Outcome S.4.3	-	Students will apply ideas and strategies to contribute to decision making and problem solving
Specific Outcome S.4.4	-	Students will describe a plan of action to use technology to solve a problem
Specific Outcome S.4.5	-	Students will use appropriate tools and materials to accomplish a plan of action
Specific Outcome S.5.4	-	Students will consider the points of view and perspectives of others
Specific Outcome S.5.6	-	Students will demonstrate cooperativeness in groups to solve problems
Specific Outcome S.6.2	-	Students will promote and respect the contributions of team members when working as a team
Specific Outcome S.7.1	-	Students will develop and express an informed position on an issue
Specific Outcome S.7.2	-	Students will develop conclusions based on evidence gathered through research of a wide variety of sources
Specific Outcome S.7.3	-	Students will use research tools and methods to investigate issues
Specific Outcome S.7.4	-	Students will consult a wide variety of sources, including oral histories, that reflect varied viewpoints on particular issues
Specific Outcome S.7.9	-	Students will plan and perform searches, using digital sources
Specific Outcome S.7.10	-	Students will generate understandings of issues by using some form of technology to facilitate the process
Specific Outcome S.8.1	-	Students will communicate effectively in a variety of situations
Specific Outcome S.8.2	-	Students will engage in respectful discussion
Specific Outcome S.8.3	-	Students will use a variety of oral, visual and print sources to present informed positions on issues
Specific Outcome S.8.6	-	Students will use technology to compose, revise and edit text
Specific Outcome S.8.7	-	Students will employ technologies to adapt information for context (situation, audience and purpose)
Specific Outcome S.9.1	-	Students will assess the authority, reliability and validity of electronically accessed information
Specific Outcome S.9.2	-	Students will analyze the validity of various points of view in media messages
Specific Outcome S.9.3	-	Students will analyze information from multiple sources, evaluating each source in terms of the author's perspective or bias and use of evidence
Specific Outcome S.9.4	-	Students will analyze the impact of various forms of media
Specific Outcome S.9.5	-	Students will demonstrate discriminatory selection of electronically accessed information

C	Citizenship
ER	Economics and Resources
CC	Culture and Community

I	Identity
LPP	The Land: Places and People
GC	Global Connections

TCC	Time, Continuity and Change
PADM	Power, Authority, and Decision Making