1. Breaking down stereotypes in IT classrooms

2. Topic
Creating a MS PowerPoint presentation about stereotypes
Purpose
Make a presentation that will show the students the negative influence of media and advertising on creating stereotypes in people.
Outcome  
- students can use the Internet to find content
- recognize the positive and negative side of media and advertising (recognize negative stereotypes)
-students develop self-confidence and tolerance towards diversity
-practice making a MS PowerPoint presentation

3. Description of the activities
We ask the students if they know what prejudice and stereotypes are. We also ask them to give an example of a typical stereotype they encounter every day in their schools, on the playground, on TV, on the Internet etc. If they do not know how to explain the terms, we help them by showing them the definitions for both, explain the definitions and then ask them to give examples.
Stereotypes: thinking all people who belong to a certain group are the same and labelling them, for example all young people who wear hoodies are thugs.
Prejudice: judging someone without knowing them, on the basis of what they look like or what group they belong to, for example all black people are good dancers.
In MS PowerPoint, students will create presentations related to upcoming holidays and how advertisements impact their opinions and emotions on creating stereotypes of different groups of people.
When they are done, they present their work and we ask the students questions about their presentations (What stereotypes have they recognized in advertisement, if they haven’t mentioned them already? Do they think that this kind of behavior is always true for every person of a particular gender, race, religion...? Do they know an example from their personal life that would prove the opposite? How would you change this commercial? Have you every been a victim of stereotyping? How did you feel?)
Students will show examples from their surroundings, which prove that behavior of people in advertisements, cannot always be true for all people within a certain group, nation, race, religion, gender ... but that all people are different but equally valuable. The teacher can help with his/her own examples.
In the end students take a look at a slideshow of different pictures and comment what is right or wrong with each one. The activities can be done during 3-4 lessons.

4. Targeted group
8th grade
 Method of implementation
Model
Information technology
Methods i forms of work
Oral presentation, Conversation, Demonstration, research work
Frontal, individual, practical work on the computer
Resources
Computer, MS PowerPoint program, Internet
Time
2nd week of December
Valuation and evaluation method
Students' works will be visible on computers in the the IT classroom.
The students will present them, after which the conversation is followed.
Teacher

5. Laurence Johnston Peter (September 16, 1919 – January 12, 1990) was a Canadian educator

10. What do you think? Read and commet

14. Malala Yousafzai- the girl that fought
As a young girl, Malala Yousafzai defied the Taliban in Pakistan and demanded that girls be allowed to receive an education. She was shot in the head by a Taliban gunman in 2012, but survived and went on to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.
I think she is one of the most insipiring women out there because after the Taliban began attacking girls' schools in Swat, Malala gave a speech in Peshawar, Pakistan, in September The title of her talk was, "How dare the Taliban take away my basic right to education?". But that was just a beginning of her activisam for girls' right to be educated.
In early 2009, Yousafzai began blogging for the BBC about living under the Taliban's threats to deny her an education. In order to hide her identity, she used the name Gul Makai. However, she was revealed to be the BBC blogger in December of that year.
With a growing public platform, Yousafzai continued to speak out about her right, and the right of all women, to an education. Her activism resulted in a nomination for the International Children's Peace Prize in That same year, she was awarded Pakistan's National Youth Peace Prize.
And because she basically became an advocate for girls' rights, Taliban insued a death threat against her. On October 9, 2012, a gunman shot Malala when she was traveling home from school. She survived, and has continued to speak out on the importance of education. She was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize in In  2014,  she was nominated again and won, becoming the youngest person to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.
I think than not many people, and I mean grown, adult people, would find such streinght and bravery to speak out about the problems. But when Malala was shot she was 14 and she recieved the Nobel Peace Prize at the age of 16. And that's amazing.
She had found her voice inside and spoke out to the world. She showed me that our voices should never be just echoes in the wind and that if we find the courage to speak, we may find other voices that sound like ours. And when all our voices unite we could maybe, just maybe, change the world.

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You can use these pictures, links or stories, find your own or just use commercials and ads.