Like the Edusites Core Units, this NEA section involves exploring:
- The role and manipulation of media language
- The representations in these products
- Issues of audience
- Institutional issues such as genre, branding, regulation
- How the media creates or represents attitudes, behaviours and beliefs
Access to the internet is essential for using the lesson slides and meet the Assessment Objectives.
Some lessons lend themselves to being divided into more than one session. Where this is possible/desirable it is indicated in this Scheme of Learning. You will, of course, have a much greater understanding of the needs, capacities, pace of your students and make these decisions where you feel most appropriate to their needs.
Lesson 1: NEA Applying Research
Slides 1-22
Objectives
- Knowledge : To develop ideas about the NEA briefs
- Learning : To evolve ideas of researching media by applying acquired skills
- Understanding : To develop understanding by analysis of NEA portfolio products
Starter/Loop Activity (5 minutes)
Slide 3: Task 1A Pupils asked to consider the question from the Lesson Resource: Cover of GQ magazine February 2018: what kind of media product is this? How do we know?
Prepare the Learning (5 minutes)
Share the objectives. Remind students of the objectives we are working towards meeting, and that this unit is designed to help them prepare for the two papers of the examination as much as it is their NEA. All skills and strategies are transferable.
Construct the Learning (20 minutes)
Slides 5-6: this is very important – the NEA work is about personal research. The lessons are starting places, jumping…
