Learn how to balance your use of media and technology through this lesson using a media nutrition pyramid. This lesson provides templates that will help you log your media use, graph into a pyramid and then develop your own media nutrition plan. Available on TED Ed at: http://ed.ted.com/on/VoRBADci

1. Media Nutrition Pyramid
Lesson Plan
Dr. Andrew Sears
President, City Vision University
Director, Master’s in Technology & Social Entrepreneurship Program
www.cityvision.edu
andrew@cityvision.edu
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3. Junk
Media
(Empty
Entertainment)
Neutral
Media
Media for Growth
In person
Relationships
(Bible, Christian content/music, education, work)
(some music, games,
news, social media)
(Love God + Love Others + Sabbath & Self Care)
Fresh Fruit
and Vegetables
Cheap Empty Calories
(bread, rice, potatoes)
Dessert
Exercise
Toxic or
Addictive
Media
Stop!
Media Nutrition Pyramid Lesson Plan
Provided by City Vision University’s Master’s Program in Technology and Social Entrepreneurship.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

4. From: http://www.happydiabetic.com/?p=519

5. Television Fast Food
=
Computer Supermarket
Tablet/Smartphone Convenience Store/Daily Trips
=
=
Media Type & Devices Influence Availability
of Healthy Media

6. From: http://sociecity.com/rethink/graphic-the-real-food-pyramid

7. Toxic & Addictive
Media
Junk
Media
(Empty Entertainment)
Neutral Media
Media for growth
In person
Relationships
(Bible, Christian content/
music, education,
work)
(some music, games,
news, social media)
Fresh Fruit
and Vegetables
Cheap Empty Calories
(bread, rice, potatoes)
Dessert
Exercise
Media Nutrition Pyramid
Poison

8. Image From: http://www.richlandcreek.com/pages/page.asp?page_id=153447&articleId=27982
For as a man thinks, so he is.
- Proverbs 23:7 (paraphrased)

9. Additional Resources
 YouTube Playlist from Technology, Life Balance and Addiction
Course
 The Digital Invasion: How Technology Is Shaping You and Your
Relationships
 Extended Bibliography
 Media Nutrition Pyramid Lesson on Ted Ed