November blog learner response and feedback

 

WWW: Dhurata, you’ve made an impressive start to Media Studies in Year 12 which is reflected in your blog work. Your honesty about screen time in your first blog post is honourable and reflective but at least you are aware. I was particularly drawn to your opinions about the growth of AI and how you were not a fan - something I stereotyped all teenagers to be in favour of.


Next steps:

  1. Ensure you complete all blog work to meet deadlines

  2. Attempt all A/A* extension tasks if you would like to achieve your intended target grade next year


Learner response: Correct the above and then answer the questions below:


Reflect on your work in A Level Media so far:

What is your strongest piece of work? 

The reading an image is the best piece of work because as a class we made good analysis and I used it to write my own analysis.

What is your weakest? 

The Genre blog post because I didn't answer all the questions because I couldn't really apply the questions to the media text I chose.

What specific skills or knowledge do you need to develop over the rest of the course?

I need to better memorise the content we learn.

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