210 Wednesday, September 16, 1992 Media literacy may end mystery @ Drop consumer ed for real life education Want to make our schools progressive in one fell swoop? Teach media literacy. Think about it. How many adults regularly seek fine arts, histo- ry, poetry and literature after leaving school? Not a lot. How many regularly use videos, TV, movies, newspa- pers and magazines? Almost everyone. In school (and at home), critical thinking and analyti- cal skills must be brought to the media. Teaching media lit would achieve the following: * expose stereotypes, gen- der roles and power dynamics that often poison personal re- lationships ° counter marketing tech- niques that use young people’s insecurities and low self-es- teem to sell alcohol and tobac- co * question media-conveyed news and information, oft re- ceived as the real, objective and important truth. If we want to update cur- riculum, make it relevant, keep more students alive with learning, then teach media lit- — Radical Times BarbaraMlU RDOC eracy. Replace consumer ed. It is out of sync to teach kids how to enter a market-driven consumer society when we need to think about sustain- ability. Unless in consumer ed, they deal seriously with how to separate the garbage, can consumer ed and teach media lit. What are the spinoffs? People enrolled in sec- ondary schools will be talking about what they want to dis- cuss, their own, most perti- nent reality. If teens are to question au- thority, let them start the ad- vertising in the Rolling Stone. Let them discuss the images at eye level in the local book store. Are we learning modesty and discretion here in small town B.C.? THE NEW CONSTITUTIONAL AGREEMENT §& INFORMATION “800-561-1188 Canada Popular culture images are meant to arouse feeling, de- sires and insecurities. Adver- tising works. It motivates be- havior. But what pieces of be- havior are learned from TV, movies, video games and pop- ular music? Media literature in the classroom brings the relevant imminent culture to question, the very reality that people seek six hours a day after school. The young are most hot to ask psychological, social and philosophical questions ... tough questions about their own everyday experience. Why not? Much of it hardly makes sense. So capitalize on this while the interest is keen and the mind is not deadened by years as a workplace clone. Stop tar- geting problem kids and prob- lem substances. Awaken to the popular culture. When we have a population that can take control over their own thoughts and ac- tions, persons who can read the ads, watch the shows and not mindlessly mimic, then we will have a media literate com- munity. 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He is survived by his wife Cathy, one son, Dean of Castlegar, one daughter, Debbie Anne St. Germaine of Surrey, brother, Melvin of Burnaby, and sister Carolynne McKee of Burnaby. There will be no service by request and cremation has taken place. Cremation arrangements were under the direction of the Castlegar Funeral Chapel. Agnes Carmichael Agnes Carmichael of Castlegar, passed away on Sept. 10, 1992 at the age of 85 years. Mrs. Carmichael is survived by her daughter Polly Emde and sons John Carmichael and Ron Carmichael. She also had 10 grandchildren and two great-grand- children. It was Mrs. Carmichael's request that no funeral service was to be held. In lieu of flowers, she wanted donations to be made to the West Kootenay Naturalists’ Association, Box 3121, Castlegar — V1N 3H4. , It’s time to tackle plastics Martin Meyer RECYCLING ADVISORY GROUP According to a recent survey commissioned by the Ministry of Environment, B.C. generates about 250,000 tonnes of plastic waste each year. This represents approxi- mately 10 per cent of the province’s municipal solid waste, of which about half is es- timated to be generated by households. The other is gener- ated by the industrial-commer- cial-institutional sector. Plastics are produced from fossil fuels and a small percent- Recycling @nd You lg “—. martin meyer —— late. Includes soft drink bot- tles. * Type 3: V - Vinyl © Type 2: HDPE - high den- sity polyethylene like food con- tainers, oil, milk and juice jugs. © Type 4: LDPE - low densi- ty polyethylene like grocery bags. © Type 5: PP - polypropy- lene. Includes battery casings. * Type 6: PS - polystyrene. Includes fast-food packaging, egg cartons and disposable plates. Local options for plastic re- cycling are slowly developing: py ari pop bottles may be age of chemical additives. 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