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Center for Media Literacy: Empowerment Through Education


What techniques are used to attract our attention in media? Knowledge of the arts helps answer this Key Question. Media literacy and the arts go hand-in-hand.		"The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed..."
		— William Faulkner

		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.
		• "What I've Learned from Making Video" — A Student Speaks • 12 Basic Principles for Incorporating Media Literacy and Critical Thinking into Any Curriculum • ADVOCACY: Lyrics – Are They Singing Something Important? • Assignment Media Literacy -- Maryland project • Cartoons'N Comics: Communication to the Quick • Collaborating for Success: Classroom teachers and video specialists • Comics and Culture: The Cartoonist as TV Critic • Community/Schools Partnership for the Arts: Collaboration, Politics, and Policy (Arts Education Policy Review) • Finding Media Literacy Lessons Across the Curriculum • How to Analyze an Advertisement • How to Conduct a ‘Close Analysis' of a Media ‘Text' • In Terms of Media: Photography • Listening to the Beat of World Music • Lost Listeners Anoint Musical Messiahs • Making Media Skills • Marketing the Military: Should Soldiering Be Sold Like Soap? • Media Literacy: An Alternative to Censorship • Middle School Performance Group Challenges Media Violence • New Eyes and Ears through Media Literacy • New Media and New Media Literacy • Pictures in the Parlor • Pictures Without Bias • Power of Images: Creating the Myths of Our Time • Re-Touching Reality: Can Pictures Lie? • Rise of the Image Culture • Snapshots from a TV Album: Scenarios Explore Family Viewing Habits • Teach Kids to Make TV! • TELEVISION: The Search for Meaning • Tony Schwartz: The Man Who Invented Political Spots • Video Basics and Production Projects for the Classroom • Violence Formula: Analyzing TV, Video and Movies • WORKSHOP REPORT: How to do Assessment and Evaluation in Media Literacy • WORKSHOP REPORT: Integrating Media Literacy Across the Curriculum • You’ve Come a Long Way, Joanie! • ‘A Comic Strip Writer has Got to Understand Life’

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