MEDIA LITERACY LINKS

Here is a list of content-rich web sites for parents, teachers, students, and anyone interested in learning more about how media affects viewers, and how we can learn to use it for our own and our children's learning and growth.

Center for Media Literacy

http://www.medialit.org/

In The Mix -- reality television for teens

http://www.pbs.org/inthemix/

VidKids Media Literacy Program -- a model project in Riverside CA for elementary school students

http://cmp1.ucr.edu/exhibitions/cmp_ed_prog.html

The Just Think Foundation (JTF) is a dynamic nonprofit, 501(c)3, dedicated to teaching young people literacy for the 21st century by providing them with the skills to be critical thinkers and creative producers.

http://www.justthink.org/

Coalition for Quality Children's Media KIDS FIRST!® is the Coalition's program that evaluates and rates children's media: videos, CD-ROMs, audio, websites and television.

http://www.cqcm.org/kidsfirst/start.html

Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting.

FAIR, the national media watch group, has been offering well-documented criticism of media bias and
censorship since 1986.

http://www.fair.org/