Teachers can use images, videos, and memes -- things that most students already see on a daily basis -- in the classroom to teach students how to analyze media, writes Darcy Bakkegard, an educator and author. In this article, Bakkegard shares resources to help students learn real-world skills through the decoding of multimedia elements as text as well as examining the tools and techniques used to produce images and video.
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