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CMLEmpowerment Through Education
The Center for Media Literacy (CML) is an educational organization that provides leadership, public education, professional development and educational resources nationally and internationally. Dedicated to promoting and supporting media literacy education as a framework for accessing, analyzing, evaluating, creating and participating with media content, CML works to help citizens, especially the young, develop critical thinking and media production skills needed to live fully in the 21st century media culture.
Check out the CML MediaLit Kit! NEW resources available...A Recipe for Action: Deconstructing Food Advertising. NOW AVAILABLE! This new curriculum ties together the critical thinking skills of media literacy with a nutrition theme that meets national education standards for middle schools in Language Arts, Health, and Technology. The lessons focus on the deconstruction of food-related media messages using the Five Key Questions and Core Concepts of media literacy and incorporate recognizable media clips and examples. Beyond Blame: Challenging Violence in the Media. Stop the circle of blame with this NEW research-based middle-school curriculum for youth violence prevention. Curriculum includes 10 Complete Lessons, Educator Guide, Professional Development Module, DVD of media clips, and Student Workbook. Lessons address newly adopted National Core Standards for English/Language Arts, as well as national standards for Health Education and Technology. UPDATE ► Beyond Blame: Challenging Violence in the Media has been selected by California Department of Education as a high quality curriculum for in-class and after school programs. The CML curriculum is now included in California Healthy Kids Resource Library and CASRC library. Media Literacy: A System for Change. This toolkit offers an all-in-one professional development package for applying CML's framework for media literacy to all curricular subjects. Media Literacy: A System for Change has three parts: Introductory e-book, Professional Development slide presentation featuring the Five Core Concepts and Five Key Questions for media literacy, and a comprehensive section on Tools for Implementation and curriculum planning. This package is an ideal resource for administrators and staff who want to implement a comprehensive and systematic media literacy program in their district or school with a research-based framework. Questions/TIPS (Q/TIPS) Framework. Used throughout the world, CML's framework for inquiry-based media literacy features CML's Five Core Concepts and Five Key Questions of Media Literacy for Deconstruction and Construction. Q/TIPS™ addresses questions from the viewpoints of both consumers and producers of media messages, enabling critical thinking and participation in a global media culture. Go directly to CML's Five Key Questions and Core Concepts of Media Literacy for Deconstruction. Published in eSchool News. Hathaway Brown School discovered the power of media literacy. Read how this school put the CML Framework to use for its students. Learn more about Hathaway Brown's media literacy program in Tectonic cultural shifts require media literacy in schools recently published in Independent School magazine. Visit our online store for media literacy publications, tools for curricular design and lesson plans, and professional development modules. Literacy for the 21st Century now available in Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic, and Turkish! |
