Children and Media
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 NEWSHOUR Extra - Arts/Media
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.