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Media Literacy Resources for Kids

Media-Savvy Kids
  • The Center for Media Literacy offers lesson plans and teaching tools, some free, as well as news and research in the field.
    www.medialit.org


  • Project Look Sharp offers teaching kits and Internet tips.
    www.ithaca.edu/looksharp


  • PBS Parent’s Guide to Media has a parent’s section that is useful for media literacy strategies.
    www.pbs.org/parents


  • Media Awareness Canada supplies guidance on how to use the Internet critically.
    www.media-awareness.ca

  • British Film Institute offers free, downloadable K–8 resources including a media literacy template called Look Again.
    www.bfi.org.uk/education/teaching/lookagain/

  • Cable in the Classroom gives an excellent overview of media literacy concepts.
    www.ciconline.org

  • Media Literacy Clearinghouse has links to Internet articles and resources.
    medialit.med.sc.edu

  • Literacy Through Photography provides ways for students to express themselves through photography and text.
    www-cds.aas.duke.edu

  • Alliance for a Media Literate America, an educators’ organization, is committed to promoting media literacy education that is focused on critical inquiry, learning, and skill-building.
    www.amlainfo.org


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