This Pestalozzi training unit contains activities, suggestions and explanations for teachers on the use of the media in classrooms. The rapid development of the media today entails the need to develop competences to analyse different content and formats. This can be integrated into several subject matters in schools and into many fields of education in general. Teachers who routinely use different sources in history and civics lessons should also use media-based sources to intersect history and civics with the media. This material concentrates on news portals and on methods of text analysis. Crisis situations are used to bring up opportunities to work with the emotional aspects and bias in the media, thus increasing the participants’ capacity to judge the reliability of sources.
To cite this resource: Luisk, Ü. (2012). Introduction to media analysis and use of the media in the classroom. In Council of Europe Pestalozzi Programme Training Units.
