Media Literacy Resources for Kids

• The Center for Media Literacy offers lesson plans and teaching tools, some free, as well as news and research in the field.
  www.medialit.org



• Project Look Sharp offers teaching kits and Internet tips.
  www.ithaca.edu/looksharp



• PBS Parent’s Guide to Media has a parent’s section that is useful for media literacy strategies.
  www.pbs.org/parents



• Media Awareness Canada supplies guidance on how to use the Internet critically.
  www.media-awareness.ca
  


• British Film Institute offers free, downloadable K–8 resources including a media literacy template called Look Again.
  www.bfi.org.uk/education/teaching/lookagain/
  
  
• Cable in the Classroom gives an excellent overview of media literacy concepts.
  www.ciconline.org
  


• Media Literacy Clearinghouse has links to Internet articles and resources.
  medialit.med.sc.edu
  


• Literacy Through Photography provides ways for students to express themselves through photography and text.
  www-cds.aas.duke.edu
  


• Alliance for a Media Literate America, an educators’ organization, is committed to promoting media literacy education that is focused on critical inquiry, learning, and skill-building.
  www.amlainfo.org