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Center for Media Literacy: Empowerment Through Education


Power for the people depends upon the power of the people to make wise decisions and to express themselves effectively. Media literacy provides a solid base from which to navigate a complex and demanding world.		"All who have meditated on the art of governing have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth."
		— Aristotle

		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.
		• "...And the Company President Is a Black Woman" • "Confound it! It Talks!" • 10 Things Wrong with the Effects Model • 12 Basic Principles for Incorporating Media Literacy and Critical Thinking into Any Curriculum • A Short History of News • ADVOCACY: Marketing Justice Without Selling Out • Alice Doesn't Live Here Any More, But the White Rabbit Does • All Power to the Conglomerate • Aspen Institute Report of the National Leadership Conference on Media Literacy • Assignment Media Literacy -- Maryland project • Assignment: Media Literacy • Babylon Revisited: How Violent Myths Resurface Today • Beauty...and the Beast of Advertising • Beware: Video Classics • Beyond Blame: Media Literacy as Violence Prevention • Bombarded by Barbie • Brands R Us: How Advertising Works • Brave New World: Rediscovering Democratic Media • Breaking Boundaries with Video Production: Inteview with Steve Goodman • Brief History of Media Education, A • Building Citizenship Skills through Media Literacy Education • Camera Always Lies, The • Can TV Characters Pay Their Bills? • Canada Offers Ten Classroom Approaches to Media Literacy • Century of Abuse: Ethnic Images on the Big Screen • Challenging the Myths of Media Violence • CHILDREN: TV Tool Teaches Election Basics • Classroom Strategies for Exploring Realism and Authenticity in Media Messages • Collaborating for Success: Classroom teachers and video specialists • Comics and Culture: The Cartoonist as TV Critic • Communicating for Justice • Covering Conflict: How the News Media Handles Ethnic Controversy • Disaster Pornography from Somalia • Does TV Shape Ethnic Images? • Educational Standards and Media Literacy • Empowered Parents: Role Models for Taking Charge of TV Viewing • Empowerment through Education • FAMILY: Oral Histories Harvest Family Heritage • Finding Media Literacy Lessons Across the Curriculum • For 200 Years: Alternative Press Voices Dissident Views • Four Steps to Success in Media Literacy • From Milton to Media: Information Flow in a Free Society • Get Down to Business News • GLOBAL: It's a Small World For Pop Conglomerates • GLOBAL: U.S. System Not Only Model • GLOBAL: War Against Media Sexism is Global • Gulf War: The More We Watched, the Less We Knew • Hollywood's Arab: Still Stuck in the Desert • How Hits Are Made: Radio's Rating Game • How to Analyze an Advertisement • How to Conduct a ‘Close Analysis' of a Media ‘Text' • How to Decode Political Images • How to Evaluate Media Images of Women • How to Monitor the News • How Well Does Television Handle Social Issues? • Insider's Game: Talking Politics on TV • Instructional Practices In Media Literacy Education And Their Impact On Students' Learning • Involving the Media in Media Education • Lessons Learned: How to Evaluate War Reporting • Let’s Break the Circle of Blame! US Senate Testimony • Listening to the Beat of World Music • Living Room Wars: Vietnam vs. ‘Desert Storm' • Making Media Skills • Making Politics Work • Making Your Voice Heard: Tips for Getting on Talk Radio. • Marketing the Military: Should Soldiering Be Sold Like Soap? • Measuring ‘Jolts Per Minute' • Media Education in the Year 2000: Directions and Challenges • Media Literacy 101: Empowering the Viewer • Media Literacy Across the Curriculum • Media Literacy and Prevention: Going Beyond ‘Just Say No' • Media Literacy and the Question of Production • Media Literacy and the ‘Big Tent' • Media Literacy Pioneer Challenges San Luis Obispo Area Teachers • Media Literacy: A National Priority for a Changing World • Media Literacy: Education for a Technological Age • Media Literacy: An Alternative to Censorship • Media Violence Not a Simple Issue • Media&Values Quarterly Corners Common Sense • Media: A Girl's Friend and Foe • Military-News Complex: What Determines What We See and Hear • Muktuk and Mass Media • No News Is Women's News • No, Walter, That’s not the Way It Is ... • Obstacles to the Development of Media Literacy Education in the United States • One Journalist's View: Informed Voters Must Reach Beyond Images • Orthodoxy is the Enemy: Four Ways NOT to Teach Media Literacy • Our Culture of Addiction • Out of Africa: Western Media Stereotypes Shape Images • Parents and Teachers: Team Teaching Media Literacy • Pictures in the Parlor • Pirating the Caribbean: Are New Media a New Colonialism? • Power of Images: Creating the Myths of Our Time • Questions Help Evaluate War Films • Re-Touching Reality: Can Pictures Lie? • Real News vs. the Newsreel • Screen-Agers...and the Decline of the "Wasteland" • Seven Great Debates in the Media Literacy Movement -- Circa 2001 • STARTING POINT: Dare to be Aware • Starting Point: The images still haunt me • Starting Point: In the Light of the Fires • STARTING POINT:Is the News Selling you Short? • Summer Seminars Take on Hot Topics in Media Literacy • Teaching Media Literacy in the ESL Classroom • Teaching Media Literacy: Yo! Are you Hip to This? • TELEVISION: The Search for Meaning • Text vs. Context in Media Literacy: A Continuing Debate • The Media Education Elephant • The Selling of the President: 1984 • Thinking Critically about Media: Schools and Families in Partnership • TV's New Ratings Game — What Parents Need to Know • Violence Formula: Analyzing TV, Video and Movies • We Are What We Watch: We Watch What We Are • Whatever Happened to the News? • Where Media Literacy Fits in the World of Education • Why I've Stopped Watching the 11 O'Clock News" • Why Peace Isn't Covered • WORKSHOP REPORT: How to do Assessment and Evaluation in Media Literacy • WORKSHOP REPORT: Integrating Media Literacy Across the Curriculum

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