My Media Choices

What makes a healthy media choice?

Learning Objectives 

• Learn the "What? When? How Much?" framework for describing their media choices.

• Use this framework and their emotional responses to evaluate how healthy different types of media choices are.

• Begin to develop their own definition of a healthy media balance.

Vocabulary

media: all of the ways that large groups of people get and share information (TV, books, internet, newspapers, phones, etc.)

media balance: using media in a way that feels healthy and in balance with other life activities (family, friends, school, hobbies, etc.)

media choices: time spent watching, listening to, reading, or creating media