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Smoking... Drinking... Drugs... Fast-Food... AIDS... Anorexia... Pregnancy... Our nation’s future well-being depends on the media literacy skills developed in health education today.		"Pediatricians should collaborate with other professionals, including the parent-teacher association, schools, and community groups, to promote media education..."
		— Recommendations of Committee on Public Education, American Academy of Pediatrics, 1998-1999

		Recommended Educational Resources CML MediaLit Kit™ / A Framework for Learning and Teaching in a Media Age Now all together in one place, the components of inquiry-based media literacy using the Five Core Concepts and CML’s Five Key Questions of Media Literacy. Covers media literacy: · Theory · Practice · Implementation Curriculum resources and lesson plans Media Literacy Works: Case Studies and Success Stories in Media Literacy Education

		Articles and Reports From our online Reading Room and Media&Values Archive we've selected pertinent studies, reflective articles, research reports and news items to help you explore this topic thoroughly.
		• Addicted to Violence: Has the American Dream Become a Nightmare? • Alcohol and Television: And Now for Some Mixed Messages • Alcohol in Prime Time: 10 Guidelines for Writers • Beauty...and the Beast of Advertising • Blowing Smoke: Can Media Literacy Impact Youth Smoking? • Cancer is an Equal Opportunity Disease • CML Pilots Media Literacy Unit for Obesity, Nutrition Education • Deadly Persuasion: 7 Myths Alcohol Advertisers Want You to Believe • Healthcare in the Media Age • Marcus Welby Speaks: Health Messages on TV • Media Literacy and Prevention: Going Beyond ‘Just Say No' • Our Culture of Addiction • Selling Addiction to Women • Setting research directions for media literacy and health education. • Sex and Consequences: Reflections of a TV Writer • Sex on TV: Do All Kids See the Same Show? • STARTING POINT: Just Say 'Yes' to Media Literacy • STARTING POINT: Turning the tables on TV sex • Testimony Reveals Complexity of Sexual Violence Issue in Media • Tuning in to TV Sex: How to Use Media to Dialogue with your Children • TV Food Messages and Children's Diets • Women's Magazines Won't Bite the Hands That Feed Them • YOUTH: Wise Dating Is No Game • YOUTH: Media Models Say Muscles Make Men

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