Teaching the Ecomedia Mind/footprint
This workshop introduces students to the concepts of the ecomedia mindprint and footprint, enabling them to critically analyze the environmental impacts of media technologies and explore how media shapes perceptions and actions regarding the environment.
Addressing “Plant Blindness” Through Reflective Reading and Creative Writing
The main focus of the learning activity is to combat “plant blindness,” a cognitive bias where people tend to overlook plants in their environment. By engaging students in reflective reading, creative writing, and hands-on plant care, the activity aims to foster empathy for plants and enhance their appreciation of the natural world.
Exploring the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals Through Ecomedia Literacy
This multi-session workshop helps students analyze how media portrays environmental issues in relation to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Through discussions, media analysis, and hands-on creation, the workshop builds critical thinking, scientific understanding, and persuasive communication skills for environmental sustainability.
The Natural World Speaks: Writing for the Rights of Nature
This creative writing activity prompts students to explore the Rights of Nature movement, which seeks to give natural entities legal personhood. By writing short stories or poems from the perspective of a natural entity, students will give nature a voice, reflect on environmental ethics, and consider the complex dimensions of granting nature legal rights.
Greening Media Environments: From Local to Global Sustainable Media Practices
This workshop series educates participants on sustainability through interactive sessions on media’s role in natural resources, community, and individual sustainability, with activities including research collaboration and media creation to address sustainability issues. Adaptable for different ages and settings, the workshops promote critical thinking and awareness of media’s influence on sustainability
Eco-Analysis of Personal Gadget
This learning activity aims to critically examine the environmental impacts of personal electronic devices through ecomedia literacy, fostering awareness of their ecological footprint and encouraging responsible usage and disposal. It highlights the importance of understanding the interconnections between digital technology and environmental sustainability within the broader context of ecomedia literacy.
Exploring Affect and Emotion: Doing a Care and Value-Based Ecomedia Analysis
This learning activity seeks to enhance ecomedia literacy by integrating critical thinking and emotional connections to media, emphasizing value-based literacy and care, fostering the creation of “brave spaces” for diverse perspectives, and promoting thoughtful media engagement through reflective practices and discussions on the alignment of media values with participants’ own.
Make a One-minute Eco-film
In this activity, students are encouraged to produce a one-minute eco-film using the “remoscope” technique, capturing a static view of something in nature. This creative exercise prompts students to contemplate how the media portrays “nature” while embracing the concept of “slow media,” fostering a deeper connection with their subject.
Student Media Research Project on Sustainability
Media literacy and critical thinking lesson in which students will complete and present a quantitative research project on media representation of sustainability.
What About Bottled Water?
Media literacy and critical thinking lesson analyzing videos and TV commercials to discern messages about decisions to purchase or not purchase bottled water.