CML : Visual Literacy


For 500 years, we’ve taught our children to read words. The time has come to teach them also to read the powerful images and sounds of their multi-media world.		"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance."
		— Derek Bok

		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.
		• Camera Always Lies, The • CHILDREN: Learning to Decipher TV Culture • Critical Viewing and Critical Thinking Skills • How Cartoons Work: The Cartoon Code • How to Analyze an Advertisement • Images of Men in Advertising • Photo Ethics: Aim High When You Shoot • Photolanguage: Philippines • Pictures Without Bias • Power of Images: Creating the Myths of Our Time • Real News vs. the Newsreel • Rise of the Image Culture • Sontag On Photography: Two Views • STARTING POINT: Today's Image Culture and Why Media Literacy Matters • Visual Education • What are Group Media? An Early Experiment in Media Education