ABOUT
FACE
High-School level site dealing with media treatment of women; lots
of room for student interaction and the Light at the End of the
Tunnel section is positive activism at its best
ALLIANCE
FOR A MEDIA LITERATE AMERICA
Promotes media literacy in education that is focused on critical
inquiry, learning, and skill-building
AMERICAN
LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INFORMATION LITERACY STANDARDS
Set of nine standards for teaching information literacy as part
of the curriculum
CENTER
FOR MEDIA LITERACY
Includes the Media&Values archive and 22 pages on how to teach media
literacy in the classroom
CONSUMER
JUNGLE
Targets seconday studnets as media savvy consumers through games,
quizzes, and projects; plans and handouts for teachers, too
CONSUMER
REPORTS FOR KIDS
Product tests, media literacy and fun activities to promote children
as critical thinkers when considering media advertisements
DIRECTORY
OF ONLINE RESOURCES FOR INFORMATION LITERACY
Provides educators with a comprehensive, up-to-date guide World
Wide Web resources that relate to information literacy
DON'T
BUY IT
Subtitled 'get media smart,' this PBS site helps elementary students
look at advertising critically with interesting topics like What
Makes an Advertisement… An Advertisement? and Using Statistics to
Sell Cat Food
DOUG JOHNSON
Nationally recognized speaker and writer on information literacy and the role of technology in education.
EDUCATIONAL
RESOURCES IN MEDIA LITERACY
Original materials and relevant links on teaching media literacy
to children; from the Community Learning Network
FROM NOW ON
Jamie McKenzie's online newsletter on information literacy and instructional technology
INFORMATION LITERACY - LEARNING HOW TO LEARN
Holly Barton's excellent presentation of the issues confronting
us in teaching children the Information Age
INFORMATION
LITERACY LINKS
Florida International University presents this extensive list
of resources on information literacy
INTRODUCTION
TO MEDIA LITERACY
David Considine presents this rationale for the need for media literacy
in education
MEDIA
AWARENESS NETWORK
Practical support for media education in the home, school and community
by supplying food for thought on how media impacts our lives
MEDIA
LITERACY
Index of resources and lesson plans for teaching media literacy
to students
NEWSEUM
A virtual museum covering the past, present and future of journalism
in all its forms; interactive and engaging
NEWSPAPER
IN EDUCATION ARCHIVES
Learner's Online's service to provide materials for teachers integrating
newspapers into their curriculum
NEWSPAPERS IN EDUCATION
All kinds of ways to integrate the paper into instruction including
topical units, weekly lesson plans, daily news discussion questions
NEWSPAPERS
IN EDUCATION WORLD
Sites for educators, parents and students; events and Carmen Quest
NEWSVOYAGER
"A comprehensive gateway to U.S. daily and weekly newspapers on the Web", with links to papers, features, classifieds and noteworthy award winners
NEWSWISE
"A free educational resource, designed to improve literacy, encourage
thoughtful discussion and promote citizenship using topical stories
selected or adapted from the national press"
NEW
YORK TIMES LEARNING NETWORK
News summaries, news quizzes, lesson plans, Newspaper in Education
resources, much more from the people who promise 'all the news that's
fit to print'
NOVEMBER LEARNING
Alan November's portal on information literacy, critical thinking and visionary uses of technology
PBS
TEACHER SOURCE - MEDIA LITERACY
Resources, research and activities to help promote media literacy
in the classroom
TEXAS
INFORMATION LITERACY TUTORIAL
Online tutorial on information literacy from the University of Texas
UNDERSTANDING
THE HYPE
In this Education World piece Catherine Gourley shares her thoughts
about media literacy and its role in education
THE
WEB IS NOT AN ENCYCOLPEDIA
The University
of Maryland's Office of Information Technology offers
this tutorial on how to critically assess information online