Digital Resources for Teaching About Media

The Alliance for a Media Literate America (AMLA)

Committed to promoting media literacy education that is focused on critical inquiry, learning, and skill-building.

Center for Media Literacy

Resource catalogue offers one of the largest collections of media literacy books, videos, CD/DVDs and teaching tools from around the world.
Classroom approaches

Media Literacy Clearinghouse

Designed for K-12 educators who want to: learn more about media literacy, integrate it into classroom instruction, help students read the media, and help students become more media aware.

Just Think Foundation

The San Francisco-based Just Think Foundation strives to stimulate critical thinking about popular media and equip young people with the literacy tools critical for their future. These tools include the ability to comprehend the content of media and master the technical skills to produce media messages in various forms.

The Media Action Project

This site contains many useful essays from the work of the Urban Program Research Group, University of Nottingham, England. It also previews the book Media Action Projects: A Model for Integrating Video in Project-based Education, Training and Community Development (1998; D. Schouten and R. Watling).

Project Look Sharp

Project Look Sharp provides materials, training and support to help teachers prepare students for life in today's media saturated world. Project Look Sharp is an initiative of Ithaca College, working in collaboration with local school districts, New York State BOCES, the Alliance for Media Literate America, and other national media literacy organizations.