On Sep 9, 2006, at 9:32 AM, Dave Land wrote:
Folks,In an impressive display of agility, educational publisher Scholastic has cancelled their planned distribution of study guides to accompany the "Path to 9/11" miniseries and replaced them with a "Media Literacy Discussion Guide" that focuses on helping high-schoolers learn how to think about and interpret what they get from the media. Here's Scholastic's statement on the matter: http://www.scholastic.com/medialiteracy/ And the Media Literacy materials themselves: http://content.scholastic.com/browse/unitplan.jsp?id=175 Of course, that these materials could be used _just_ as well to to teach kids how to decide what to think about "Fahrenheit 911" as the "Path to 9/11" miniseries.
Which is good. I'd much rather have kids learning how to do research and investigate on their own than have them accept, without thinking, *anything* that comes from the mouth of folks such as Carlson, O'Reilly, Olbermann or anyone else.
I wonder if ABC will show anything like this kind of class? Will they follow CBS's lead on the Reagan docudrama and relegate it to "ABC Family" or another Disney-owned cable outlet?
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