Media Links
Alliance for a Media Literate America
A national grassroots membership organization dedicated to promoting media literacy education in the United States. AMLA's pilot project, “Media Literacy & Core Curriculum,” is currently being developed through funding from the U.S. Department of Education.
Consortium for School Networking, The
An excellent resource for understaffed K-12 schools struggling to support the technology the have strategically to improve teaching and learning.
Center for Media Literacy
An excellent resource site for media literacy educators dedicated to providing up-to-date lists of reading material, opinions, and other resources from scholars and educators in the field, including the groundbreaking "CML MediaLit Kit", a free downloadable framework for K-12 Teaching in a media age, and "10 Classroom Approaches to Media Literacy" for K-12 educators from the Ontario Ministry of Education's national media literacy initiative.
Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting
FAIR provides a thorough liberal analysis of the major news media.
NY Times Media Studies: Daily Lesson Plan
Excellent source for grades 6-12 media literacy lesson plans. Each lesson is accompanied by follow-up questions, interdisciplinary connections, assessment techniques, related web links, and academic content standards.
Renee Hobbs' Media Literacy Lab
One of the nation's leading authorities in media education, Renee Hobbs posts her articles, research, and her own curricular resources and workshops. Renee and others from the Department of Communications at Temple University recently launched "My Pop Studio", a creative play website for girls that strengthens media literacy. Also see our Reading List for our favorites from her body of work.
Media Matters with Bob McChesney
Robert McChesney is a major force in media education: ...author of eight books on media and politics, professor of communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and host of the weekly talk show, Media Matters, on WILL-AM radio. McChesney also writes widely for both academic and non-academic publications. He gives talks frequently on issues related to media and politics in the United States and world today.
PBS Teacher's Media Literacy Quiz
An interesting online quiz dealing with youth media habits, and statistics related to media consumption.
Scholastic's Media Literacy Discussion Guide
Simple objectives, lesson plans, and suggested activities aimed at integrating media literacy into general curricula.
National Educational Technology Plan, Official Website
Seven Major Action Steps and Recommendations for Technology Integration, from the US Department of Education
Wikipedia
Wikipedia is a global community-created online encyclopedia: an exciting new type of collaborative information collecting and sharing tool, made possible by the Internet.
Youth Media Distribution's Online Film Production Curriculum
A comprehensive, youth production-based curriculum for instructors. An initiative of The Center for Teacher Education at Ithaca College to promote and support the integration of media literacy into classroom curricula at all grade levels and instructional areas, as well as to evaluate the effectiveness of media literacy education in the schools.