Media Literacy Clearinghouse
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This site supports teaching standards for media literacy, non-print texts and 21st century literacy skills. The goal of the site is to provide teachers with background information, lesson plans, teacher/student readings and links to resources that will help teach about advertising, bias, propaganda, informational texts, the language of film, techniques of persuasion and more.
Recognizing the power of the media and advertisers, lesson plans engage students by examining how tobacco, toy makers, and credit card companies participate in targeted campaigns.
Classroom activities include scriptwriting in the classroom and magazine retouching. Other strategies include tips for including documentaries in the classroom.
There are links to blogs related to media and media literacy, media literacy workshops, and a Media Literacy Book series.
