admin Words of Wisdom: Teaching CML’s Five Key Questions
The following reflections come from over two decades of CML’s work and experience in the field of media literacy education.…
Key Questions to Guide Young Children
The Five Core Concepts are the foundation of the MediaLit Kit™ and the Five Key Questions are the inquiry tools…
Media Literacy: A National Priority for a Changing World
The convergence of media and technology in a global culture is changing the way we learn about the world and…
The First TV Studio in an Elementary School
In the early 1960s, as television began to implant itself in the lives and living rooms of families around the…
John Culkin, SJ: The Man Who Invented Media Literacy: 1928-1993
John Culkin (1928-1993) was one of the first educators in the U.S. to initiate explicit media education curriculum in schools.…
Marshall McLuhan: The Revolution is — Media!
Whatever America at large may have thought about the media philosopher Marshall McLuhan in the 1960s, it is said by…
Media Literacy Finds a Home in McREL Language Arts Standards
"Where is media literacy in the standards?" many teachers ask. The standards movement in education emerged at about the same…
Three Steps to Success
"Media Literacy" is a term that incorporates three interrelated approaches leading to the media empowerment of citizens of all ages:…
Partnership for Media Education
The movement for media literacy in the United States has emerged from a plethora of individual projects and activities throughout…
The Rise and Fall of ‘Screen Education’
At one time, in the decade before World War II, the culture and the schools became very serious about mass…