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pbsChildren and Media profile
Tips and ideas for making your child more media savvy. Topics include kids and TV and movies, computers, video games, and advertising.
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PBS Parents Intended Audience: Parents, Educators Reading Level: N/A Teacher Section: N/A Searchable: No

pbsPBS NEWSHOUR Extra - Arts/Media profile Video
New coverage of the arts and media from the nightly news show, NEWSHOUR intended for use by middle and high school students and teachers. The site includes lesson plans, video, and more.

Children's Digital Media Center
Who: Georgetown University
What You'll Find: A consortium of scholars from a number of institution are looking at how digital media influences children's development. The site features news and informatin about their work.

Center for Media Literacy
Who: Nonprofit educational organization that provides leadership, public education, professional development and educational resources nationally.
What You'll Find: Resource Catalog, Reading Room, Archived articles from Media&Values magazine, best practices resources, professional development resources, consulting services.

Media Literacy Clearinghouse
Who: Educational Consultant Frank Baker
What You'll Find: Links to hundreds of media literacy resources for the K-12 educator and student.

Media Literacy Review
Who: Center for Advanced Technology in Education, University of Oregon, Eugene
What You'll Find: Biannual online resource for educators and others interested in children, adolescents, and media featuring links, resources, and readings.

Alliance for a Media Literate America (AMLA)
Who: Non-profit national organization devoted to stimulating growth in media literacy education in the United States by organizing and providing national leadership, advocacy, networking, and information exchange.
What You'll Find: Conference information, media literacy links and definitions, email newsletter

Project Look Sharp
Who: Ithaca College initiative to promote and support the integration of media literacy into classroom curricula at all grade levels and instructional areas, as well as to evaluate the effectiveness of media literacy education in the schools.
What You'll Find: Resources for integrating media literacy into the classroom, links, articles, a listserv, and a newsletter.

The Media Awareness Network
Who: Canadian non-profit organization that has been pioneering the development of media literacy programs since its incorporation in 1996.
What You'll Find: This site has sections for teachers and parents. In the teacher section you'll find lesson plans, classroom activities, and articles.

The Media Education Foundation
Who: Non-profit that produces and distributes video documentaries to encourage critical thinking and debate about the relationship between media ownership, commercial media content, and the democratic demand for free flows of information, diverse representations of ideas and people, and informed citizen participation.
What You'll Find: Articles, handouts, videos, study guides.

Media Literacy Classroom
Who: Media Channel, non-profit global Internet community of 1103 organizations focused on media issues.
What You'll Find: Lesson plans, ideas, activities and articles.

Children and the Media
Who: Children Now is a research and action organization dedicated to assuring that children grow up in economically secure families.
What You'll Find: News and research on children and the media.

Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting

Who: National media watch group.
What You'll Find: Media advisories, and counter spin on media reports.


Don't Buy It - Get Media Smart
Is real life like TV? How companies get you to buy their products? How does advertising influence you? Find out more about advertising and how it works at this site for kids!


Online Video

NH Outlook: Influence of Media On Teens
watchDuring a MediaSmart class at Manchester Child Health Services, participants deconstruct media and discuss the messages they discover. Rona Zlokower, director of the Media Literacy Program, discusses the impact that the media have on young adults. This program also features an in-depth discussion with teens at the Manchester YMCA-Teen Center.

Originally aired 7/16/2003


Frameworks

The PBS series FRONTLINE has produced a number of programs that explore media, advertising, and the impact of digital technologies on kids and teens.pbs

Digital Nation
Experts explore life on the virtual frontier and critical ways that technology is transforming us.

pbsThe Persuaders
A look at the science of getting comsumers to consume!

pbsGrowing Up Online
What does it grow up as part of the first fully digital generation?

pbsThe Merchants of Cool
A look at how America's giant media corporations court the teen consumer.


Lesson Plans

pbsArthur's Guide to Media Literacy
Who: PBS
This PDF guide for teachers and caregivers uses episodes from the PBS children's series ARTHUR to explore media literacy issues.

Body Image
Who: Advocates for Youth
What You'll Find: Lesson plan designed to increase each teen's awareness of his/her physical self and of media influences on her/his self-image and behavior.

A Picture is Worth a???
Who: Ontario Prevention Clearinghouse
What You'll Find: 4-9 unit on body image and the media.