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by Jim Wasserman (Author), David W. Loveland (Author)
This teaching manual supplies lessons designed for elementary students (grades 1 - 5) that establish a foundation for skill-building in recognizing, deconstructing, evaluating, and choosing for themselves whether to accept a tangible product or intangible message. Students will learn to become active, rather than passive, receivers of messaging.
Author Biography
Jim Wasserman, a former business litigation attorney, has spent the last 25 years teaching media literacy, economics, government, and history. Jim currently lives in Granada, Spain, where he writes on media literacy, economics, and finance. Jim dreamed of a Hemingway-like life of writing in Spain, and so far to that end has amassed a houseful of cats. David W. Loveland's liberal arts education of studying ancient language, culture, religion, and literature have been instrumental in understanding the effects of media literacy through time. A career educator living in Dallas, Texas, Dave teaches 8th grade Humanities with an emphasis on American history and language arts.
