Information Literacy: Media Literacy Resources

Lesson Plans!
What do you want your students to know about advertising? More than likely, you will find it here. Most state’s teaching standards now include advertising in English/Language Arts, Economics, and Health. Advertising now appears everywhere and companies will do anything and everything to get their message in front of the eyeballs of their target audience.

Lesson Plan: You are being manipulated! The Propaganda Game teaches you HOW (and how to avoid it)
Media Literacy Now provides policy and advocacy information, expertise, and resources to develop state laws to implement media literacy education in schools.

From the Civil War to Wars in Iraq and the Mideast, photographic images have played a major role in how we perceive and understand conflicts. On this web site, we offer some of the still photos taken by photographers: some have been published in newspapers and online, some have not. (In addition, you will find resources related to previous wars and more recent conflicts).

History Lesson Plans!! PROJECT LOOK SHARP is a media literacy initiative of the School of Humanities and Sciences at Ithaca College.

The Roper Center provides online tutorials that explain the fundamentals of public polling and basics on how to analyze public opinion polls. Sample assignments for classroom use are included.

Demystify the Datasphere.
Learn how data shapes what ads and offers you see.
As a leader in ethical data use, Acxiom works to provide consumers with transparent access to the data that brands use to deliver personalized ads and offers.

Real versus fake news.
This lesson will give you a broad understanding of the term ‘fake news’ and the skills and techniques to distinguish between what’s false or fake and what’s real.

Evaluating Sources in a ‘Post-Truth’ World: Ideas for Teaching and Learning About Fake News

The full News Literacy course, developed at Stony Brook University, organizes the material into 8 concepts that are spread amongst our 14 week course that take students from the first information revolution of Johannes Gutenberg's printing press to the Digital Age of Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook. Each lesson stands alone or can easily be integrated into your program.