Media Literacy

"Internet Photo Essays" Project

Goals: 

Project participants will accomplish the following goals:

    • Increased ability to understand and present information on social issues from expressive and analytic perspectives
    • Increased ability to perform in a collaborative work environment
    • Increased ability to present information in multimedia formats
    • Increased skill in using multimedia authoring software and the Internet

Thirteen Ed Online

The Internet is changing the way teachers teach and students learn. Thirteen Ed Online is helping shape the future of education in the digital age.

PBS Teachers

Free Resources for Teaching & Learning

PBS Teachers is PBS' national web destination for high-quality preK-12 educational resources. Here you'll find classroom materials suitable for a wide range of subjects and grade levels. We provide thousands of lesson plans, teaching activities, on-demand video assets, and interactive games and simulations. These resources are correlated to state and national educational standards and are tied to PBS' award-winning on-air and online programming like NOVA, Nature, Cyberchase, Between the Lions and more.

Media Literacy

In our media-saturated world, kids are constantly bombarded by messages, images, opinions and ideas. Add the Internet, Web, email and wireless devices into the mix, and it's difficult for any of us to escape the information—and misinformation—glut.

Street Level Youth Media

A variety of multi-media projects from youth who have participated in the Street Level Youth media programs in Chicago. Includes "CHi-dentified [a] project [that] gave youth across the city the chance to look at their identity in the context of American history, specifically the history of slavery and the African people," personal Web sites created by youth, testimonials on life in Chicago, "Chiksite, an all-girls collaboration on what it means to be a women in cyberspace," and more.

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