Just finished a webinar on Teaching Media Literacy in the Classroom and teaching kids to be good consumers and creators of media. Got some great resources, including a lit handout and I wanted to post so I could refer back to them...
One resource that was shared was Web Literacy for Student Fact Checkers by Michael Caulfield, which discusses teaching students how to evaluate media. This is a web-book and is a free resource.
Another resource was on PearlTrees (a forum I'm not yet familiar with, but will look into), and is a series of media literacy lessons created by another teacher-librarian .
Another resource was Admongo.Gov , a resource for teaching students about how ads work, and helping to break down the process of creating ads in order to learn how to use them and how to be aware of the manipulations used. It's presented as a game format, and with interesting graphics.
The last article is actually a link to another webinar: Fake News and the Case for Media Literacy across Grades. It looks like a pretty good resource, and it's a recording of a webinar - to get PD credit, you have to take a quiz after the webinar. Seems worth the time investment though.
I'll post the link to this webinar when its available in about 24 hours.
