Media Literacy

Teachers can share these tips and resources with students in lessons about cyber safety and how to protect their privacy and data online.

By treating media like text, teachers can create a fast, relevant, and affordable lesson that stimulates lively discussion.

High school students can benefit from learning how to create different media in a responsible way.

Ideas on how to guide students to the knowledge and experience they need to act responsibly online.

Teaching infographic literacy involves asking students to flex their critical thinking skills—and their creative muscles.

There are rules when it comes to using copyrighted material in the classroom—and easy ways to make sure you’re always in the clear.

New laws from California to New Jersey are shining a spotlight on media literacy, but educators say teaching the skills in classrooms requires a targeted, intentional approach.

Wikipedia has moved far beyond its initial limitations, and is a helpful—and reputable—source for conducting research.

Use these strategies to help middle and high school students identify relevance, accuracy, bias, and reliability in the content they read.

Vetting primary resources isn’t easy—but doing it well is crucial for fostering engagement and deeper learning in a rapidly changing world.

Teachers can guide students toward a clear understanding of the factors that make a particular source of information reliable or not.

Teachers can try these project ideas to have students produce media, which helps boost engagement and learning.

A simple fill-in-the-blank exercise helped students understand the power of words and the way they might convey unspoken beliefs.

Used consistently, these strategies can help middle and high school teachers guide students to improve much-needed skills.

Visual literacy explicitly teaches a collection of competencies that will help students think through, think about, and think with pictures.