{"id":5388,"date":"2019-10-22T16:43:11","date_gmt":"2019-10-22T16:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/blurts\/?p=5388"},"modified":"2019-10-22T16:43:18","modified_gmt":"2019-10-22T16:43:18","slug":"are-teachers-willing-to-have-students-analyze-political-ads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/blurts\/2019\/10\/22\/are-teachers-willing-to-have-students-analyze-political-ads\/","title":{"rendered":"Are teachers willing to have students analyze political ads"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

When I am working with a class, my posts here often reflect the topic of the week. This week we are considering literacy skills needed to processing online content. An important subtopic involves interpreting the motives of those offering content.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In searching for new resources relevant to this topic, I came across this interesting collection of proposed classroom experiences from MiddleWeb focused on the analysis of political ads. This might be considered a subtopic of an examination of advertising, but I could not help thinking how educators must be careful when addressing anything with a political angle. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The general collection of ideas can be found at this location<\/a>. One of resources I found to be most useful was this worksheet for recording various characteristics of individual ads<\/a>. <\/p>\n

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