A PPT which is part of a unit designed to teach students how to engage with a range of written and visual texts.

What comes to mind when you think of the word internet?
QCAA definition for CIA.
Viewing activity – a clip (news) explaining how a Teen died by suicide after encouragement from ChatGPT (introducing idea of AI). Reflection questions.

Discussion Q: How has the internet changed the way we engage with texts? followed by slides with some of the key shifts (students to copy the underlined information).

Engaging with an image (which uses juxtaposition to show print media vs the internet). Unpack as a class vis discussion.

Working through some skills with different images.
Image: Meme
Process 1: summary of stimulus.
Process 2: audience, purpose and positioning.

Image: Infographic – Print vs digital
Process 3: Identifying representations

Image: Cartoon
Process 4: Ideas and/or opinions

Image: Poster
Process 5: Language Features

Image: Meme
Process 6: Text Structures

Fast finishers: Where might we have seen representations of the internet in the media?

• Looking at clips / trailers from pop culture texts (e.g. films, documentaries and tv shows)

Context: A lesson designed for use in a 12 Essential English classroom in Queensland, Australia as part of Unit 3 “Language the Influences.” I have a mixed ability class (including QCIA learners).