For my fellow educators...

[hellbound-liberal]

I just found this web site and it looks like a good site to help teach our students to be more critical of the information that is given to them by the media.I think the idea of media literacy can and should be incorporated into most aspects of the curriculum including math and science.

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Free press basics
Free Press is a national nonpartisan organization working to increase informed public participation in crucial media policy debates, and to generate policies that will produce a more competitive and public interest-oriented media system with a strong nonprofit and noncommercial sector.

http://www.freepress.net/index.php

[ulysses]

1. looks like a great source

Thanks! :thumbsup: Very much agreed on the need to teach media literacy.

[Cheswick2.0]

2. excellent, thank you

we teach kids to judge commercials. Teaching them to judge the news they read and see on TV is even more important IMO.
We have stopped teaching kids to be citizens...now we just teach them to be consumers and employees.

[AnnInLa]

3. Thanks!

Great find....hope your post doesn't get buried, because there are many teacher-DUers.

[ulysses]

4. welcome to DU!

There are a lot of us here, yeah. :)