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Center for Media Literacy: Empowerment Through Education


From cradle to grave, media literacy provides a framework to separate the sell from sales, the romance from relationships, the dream from the price...		"Ultimately, there are no perfect decisions — only leaps of faith. But media literacy gives us a set of powerful tools to expand our options and to manage our risks, making wise choices possible."
		— Tessa Jolls

		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.
		• "What I've Learned from Making Video" — A Student Speaks • 'America's Wish Book' Sells Dreams • 12 Basic Principles for Incorporating Media Literacy and Critical Thinking into Any Curriculum • 20 Ways to Create a Caring Culture - Part I • 20 Ways to Create a Caring Culture - Part II • A Good Example: Sports Figures as Role Models • Addicted to Violence: Has the American Dream Become a Nightmare? • Beyond Blame: Media Literacy as Violence Prevention • Brands R Us: How Advertising Works • Can TV Characters Pay Their Bills? • Canada Offers Ten Classroom Approaches to Media Literacy • CHILDREN: Economic Lessons for Young Viewers • Deadly Persuasion: 7 Myths Alcohol Advertisers Want You to Believe • Finding Media Literacy Lessons Across the Curriculum • Growing Up Female in a Media World • Gullible Statistics Exercise • Home, Home on the Remote: Why Do Men Control "the Clicker"? • How to Analyze an Advertisement • How to Conduct a ‘Close Analysis' of a Media ‘Text' • How to Monitor the News • Insider's Game: Talking Politics on TV • Making Media Skills • Making the Media Work for You: Action Ideas for Families • Making Your Voice Heard: Tips for Getting on Talk Radio. • Mapping A Geography of Media • Media Literacy Questionnaire for English Language Learners • Meeting Media in Every Corner of Our Lives • MINORITIES: Ads Still Portray All-White Society • No More Blood at Eleven: Alternatives to Crime Reporting • One Journalist's View: Informed Voters Must Reach Beyond Images • Our Culture of Addiction • Outside From the Inside: Television in Jail • PASTORING: Stereotypes Back? It's No Joke • Questions Help Evaluate War Films • STARTING POINT: Dare to be Aware • Summer Seminars Take on Hot Topics in Media Literacy • Teaching Media Literacy in the ESL Classroom • Television and Consumption • The Bribed Soul: Ads, TV and American Culture • Trauma on the News: Should Children Watch? • Undercutting "Slashers": Evaluating Video Violence • Video Values: Questions for the Reflective Viewer • Violence Formula: Analyzing TV, Video and Movies • We Are What We Watch: We Watch What We Are • What's Wrong with the Ratings? • When I Grow Up: Children and the Work-World of Television • Why I've Stopped Watching the 11 O'Clock News" • Working with Basics: Miracles DO Happen! • YOUTH: Wise Dating Is No Game • YOUTH: Material World Puts Price Tag on Values • YOUTH: Music Choices Shape Life Skills • YOUTH: Training Creates Media Wise Voters

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