Is Your Class Up for Our Media Literacy Week Instagram Challenge?

It's Media Literacy Week 2013 and since this year's theme is “What’s Being Sold: Helping Kids Make Sense of Marketing Messages,” we thought we'd work up a little Instagram challenge for Manitoba classrooms. We want to get adults and kids talking and thinking critically about the marketing directed at youth. So our questions are: 1) how are students being marketed to, and 2) just how do they really feel about it?

What's the challenge?
We'd love your class to express themselves on these two questions by posting to Instagram this week and beyond. You are not limited to one post a day. Just make sure to tag every pic with both the English hashtag #whatsbeingsold and the French equivalent #onvendquoi.

Once we get going, you can draw inspiration from other classes and use the images as a springboard for discussion throughout Media Literacy Week. You may even find some of your contributions highlighted in this blog and on our @mlwmb Instagram account.

So, what does my class post?
You can see our 12 suggestions below, but they're only that. Feel free to follow those prompts for this week and beyond, or make up your own as long as they're tasteful and you never post pictures or video of people without their permission. Teachers, make sure you have releases and follow your divisional social media policy.

Media Literacy Week 2013 - IG Prompts
November 4 - 8 - and beyond

1) Stuff I like
2) Stuff you want me to like
3) So many ads
4) Fast food is the only kind?
5) Is this what you really think of me?
6) Are you trying to make me feel insecure?
7) NOT cool!
8) What's wrong with my old ones?
9) Who says?
10) I've got enough stuff, thanks
11) I'm a guy - much more than how you portray me
12) I'm a girl - much more than how you portray me

If these don't spark ideas, be creative and develop something else that's tasteful and relates to the theme - then post them to the hashtags we've mentioned above.

And if I have questions?
We'd love to help. Just leave a comment on this post and we'll get back to you.

Media Literacy Week 2013 - IG Challenge
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