Petra's Power to See: A Media Literacy Adventure

By Educate Empower Kids, Dina Alexander and Jera Mehrdad

Hi, My name is Petra! Join my dad and me as we venture into the city to learn about the media messages all around us.

We are surrounded by messages (media) our entire lives—most of them are beautiful! Some inspire us to learn and grow, but some messages are empty and unhealthy.

Dad and I will come face to face with clear and hi

• Language: English
• Publisher: Educate and Empower Kids
• Release date: Mar 15, 2018
• ISBN: 9781733604680

Educate Empower Kids

Comprised of parents and professionals, the mission of Educate and Empower Kids (EEK) is to empower parents to create deep connection with their kids through media education, meaningful family communication and intentional parenting. As a nonprofit 501(c)(3), EEK works across the country to provide essential resources for parents, educators and clinicians to teach children and teenagers how to become resilient and strong. We believe this must be done by teaching digital citizenship, media literacy, and healthy sexuality education-including education about the dangers of online porn.

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PETRA’S POWER TO SEE

A MEDIA LITERACY ADVENTURE

Educate and Empower Kids would like to acknowledge the following people who contributed time, talents, and energy to this publication.

STORY BY:

Dina Alexander, MS

EDITED BY:

Melody Bergman

Tina Mattsson

Maren Warner

Jenny Webb, MA

DESIGN AND ILLUSTRATION BY:

Jera Mehrdad

Jenny Webb, MA

SPECIAL THANKS TO:

Kyle Roberts, MA

Cliff Park, MBA

Byran Korth, PhD

Rising Parent Media, LLC

© 2018 by Rising Parent Media

All rights reserved. Published 2018

Printed in the United States of America

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ISBN: 978-0-9987312-4-7

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Special thanks to the Center for Media Literacy, Common Sense Media, Media Literacy Now, Media Smarts, and the National Association for Media Literacy Education for their wealth of knowledge and experience and their decades of education and advocacy. Their resources inspired us to create this book.

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Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1: What is Media?

Chapter 2: Deconstructing Media

Chapter 3: Types of Media

Chapter 4: Media Illusions

Chapter 5: Social Media

Chapter 6: Real News Vs. Fake News

Chapter 7: Media to Avoid

Chapter 8: The Power to See

Glossary

Citations

INTRODUCTION

We are surrounded by messages; many of them are beautiful! Some inspire us to learn and grow. But some messages