1. Access to Information: What Stories Get Told? EDU5536F Jennifer Niven, Evan Loreto, Dan Roberts

2. Access to Information Declaration of Human Rights Article 19: Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.

3. What Stories Get Told? Involves several related issues: Censorship Media Manipulation (Corporate & Government influence) Journalistic Freedom Bias Infrastructure Coverage (story selection)

4. What Stories Get Told? Les Predateurs [Countries of Concern with Respect to Journalistic Freedom]

5. What Stories Get Told  Decreasing international news coverage in the mainstream media  Negative effect of narrow range of discourse concerning developing countries

6. Key Terminology Censorship Propaganda Media Manipulation Corruption Bias Audience Globalization of Media

7. Rationale This is a Global Issue because… it is a fundamental Human Right it affects people in every place on Earth it is mandated by the MOE

8. Expectations of All Students Reflection Empathy for others Respect for diversity Increased self-awareness Critical and analytical thinking Contributing to solutions Anticipating problems Questioning

9. Lesson Activities Primary: Grade 1-3 Awareness of Points of View Intermediate: Grade 7 Connecting the Local and Global Secondary: Grade 11 Comparison of Toronto News Media

10. Points of View (Primary Grades) 3 Part Lesson Activity 1 3 Little Pigs Discussion about point of view Write newspaper article 1 Activity 2 True Story… Write newspaper article 2 Activity 3 Discussion on impartiality Write newspaper article 3 Reflection sheet

11. Charts Story OneStory Two Good Characters Bad Characters Point of View Pigs’ Point of View AgreeWolf’s Point of View

12. Journal Article Template Headline: ____________________ _____________________________ _____________________________ _____________________________