CML : Ethics / Character Education

Center for Media Literacy: Empowerment Through Education


Evaluating media requires a set of criteria or guidelines based on principles, morals or values. The choices we make reflect our ethics and character — hopefully, for the better.		"The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts, but of values."
		— Dean William R. Inge

		Recommended Educational Resources CML MediaLit Kit™ / A Framework for Learning and Teaching in a Media Age Now all together in one place, the components of inquiry-based media literacy using the Five Core Concepts and CML’s Five Key Questions of Media Literacy. Covers media literacy: · Theory · Practice · Implementation Curriculum resources and lesson plans Media Literacy Works: Case Studies and Success Stories in Media Literacy Education

		Articles and Reports From our online Reading Room and Media&Values Archive we've selected pertinent studies, reflective articles, research reports and news items to help you explore this topic thoroughly.
		• 'America's Wish Book' Sells Dreams • 12 Basic Principles for Incorporating Media Literacy and Critical Thinking into Any Curriculum • A Good Example: Sports Figures as Role Models • A Long Way to Go: Minorities and the Media • Addicted to Violence: Has the American Dream Become a Nightmare? • ADVOCACY: Marketing Justice Without Selling Out • As the World Watches: Media Events are Modern 'Holy Days' • Beware: Video Classics • Beyond Blame: Media Literacy as Violence Prevention • Camera Always Lies, The • Challenging the Myths of Media Violence • How to Conduct a ‘Close Analysis' of a Media ‘Text' • How We Connect with the Earth • How Well Does Television Handle Social Issues? • Imagine: A Media of Meaning • Meeting Media in Every Corner of Our Lives • Middle School Performance Group Challenges Media Violence • MINORITIES: Ecological Reporters Awaken to Ethnicity • New Technology: For People or Profit? • News: Balance Bias with Critical Questions • Our Culture of Addiction • Out of Africa: Western Media Stereotypes Shape Images • Power of Images: Creating the Myths of Our Time • Questions Help Evaluate War Films • Re-Touching Reality: Can Pictures Lie? • Rise of the Image Culture • Selling Addiction to Women • The Bribed Soul: Ads, TV and American Culture • Use TV to Exercise Values • VCR: Questions for Family Reflection • Video Values: Questions for the Reflective Viewer • What Other Countries Do About Ratings • When Creativity Isn't Enough: What Makes Ads go Bad? • Why I've Stopped Watching the 11 O'Clock News" • Why Peace Isn't Covered • Wired Bedrooms: Kids' Media Choices Made Behind Closed Doors

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