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Media Literacy

Center for Media Literacy - includes: Five Key Questions Five Core Concepts Questions to Guide Young Children How to Teach Media Literacy Getting Started: Ideas for Introducing Media Literacy in your School or District What Media Literacy is Not Classroom Strategies for Exploring Realism and Authenticity in Media Messages by Renee Hobbs Cable in the Classroom -Media Smart: Media Literacy 101 online course includes: Media Literacy : A Vital and Underserved Need in Schools Media Literacy 101 : Five Ways to Help Kids be Really Smart About the Media I . What is Media Literacy? II. Living in an Image Culture: Why Media Literacy is Vital in Today's World III. Five Things Everyone Should Know About Media IV. All Media Messages are Constructions V. Each Person Interprets Messages Differently VI. Media Have Commercial Interests VII. Media Have Values VIII. Each Medium has its own Language and Style IX. Five Important Things to Remember X. Media in the Classroom and Family Room - We Can Make a Difference Digital Ethics Digital Safety Media Smart for Parents Media Matters : Alliance for a Media Literate America What's Missing? Visual Literacy More websites about media literacy Center on Media and Child Health: Media Literacy ( AD IT UP method established by Brian Primack, MD, EdM) PBS Teachers: Media Literacy Read Write Think:Critical Media Literacy: Commercial Advertising (PBS) Why Media Literacy Matters (the preview of MediaChannel's new resource center for K-12 educators.) Advertising, Marketing, Consumerism, Propaganda and Privacy (from MediaChannel.org) PBS Teachers: Media Literacy: Activity Ideas Classroom Strategies for Exploring Realism and Authenticity in Media Messages New Study Finds That Food Is the Top Product Seen Advertised by Children by the Kaiser Family Foundation including the New Study Finds That Food Is the Top Product Seen Advertised by Children - Among All Children, Tweens See the Most Food Ads at More Than 20 a Day Media Literacy Education Chart Media Literacy (from Alliance for a Media Literate America) Discussing Media Literacy with Dan Rather State Standards which Include Elements of Media Literacy Media Literacy Clearinghouse - Media Literacy An Introduction to Media Literacy by David Considine Media Literacy for Prevention, Critical Thinking, Self-Esteem by Perter De Benedittis, Ph.D. Acceptable Use Policies (from Awesome Library) Cramersweeney Smart Marketing IQ Test Media Literacy Lesson Resources Today's Front Pages Deconstructing Magazine Covers (from the Center of Media Literacy) Brandchannel.com including Lunch Lessons in Branding by Dale Buss Dissect an Ad (from PBS) All Politics: Ad Archive (from CNN) Television Advertising Leads to Unhealthy Habits in Children, Says APA Task Force Coca-Cola Television Advertisements (from the Library of Congress) An Overview of Advertising (by Richard F. Taflinger) Daily Newspaper Reader Trends Read Write and Think: Lesson Plan: Book Report Alternative: Creating a New Book Cover Publishers Bindings Through the Decades NYPL Digital Library Dust Jackets from American and European Books, 1926-1947 (from the New York Public Library Digital Gallery) Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850 - 1920 John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History (from the Library of Congress) Misleading Website Example Search Engine Watch NoodleTools - Information Literacy: Search Strategies In the Mix - Lesson Plan Don't Buy It - Get Media Smart (PBS Kids) Flickr: The Commons Picturing America Product Placement How Product Placement Works by Katherine Fordham Neer (from How Stuff Works) Wayne's World Sponsors (YouTube) UTube Product Placement: Reese's Pieces on E.T. YouTube#95 "Spider-Man Product Placement" Product Placement (YouTube) Product Placement Runaway Bride Commercial Product Placement in "The Mummy" Mountain Dew in Men in Black II USATODAY.com: TV Product Placement Moves Ourt of Background Media Education Foundation: Behind the Screens Hollywood Goes Hypercommercial Superbowl Commercials 2008 Tide to Go Bridgestone E-Trade "Baby II" Thrillicious: 2008 So Be Life Water Super Bowl Ad Doritos Coke Diet Pepsi Max Ford F-150 GMC "Mouintain Top" Other Commericals and Ads Fifty Years of Coca-Cola Television Advertisements: Highlights from the Motion Picture Archives at the Library of Congress Superbowl Mean Joe Green Commercial Funny Ads Return to top of page Presidential Election Websites: John McCain Mitt Romney Rudy Giuliani Mike Huckabee Hillary Clinton Barack Obama John Edwards News and Magazine Resources available on the Internet. (For newpapers and magazines we subscribe to online, go to our Databases page.) Time For Kids Time Daily CNN World News Channel 12 News CNN Interactive NBC News Newsday People USA Today C-Span Online National Geographic World Magazine News Page (a newspaper on the Internet) MidLink (an online magazine for students in the middle grades) Electronic Newsstand (one of the first magazine resources on the Web) Syosset-Jericho Tribune   The Brooklyn Daily Eagle 1841-1902 Online (full text articles searchable by key word, date, or subject) Frontline: Growing Up Online (from PBS) Media Literacy Lesson Links

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