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Need Event or Classroom Lesson Ideas?
Are you an educator, librarian, organization, or other practitioner who is interested in getting involved in Media Literacy Week but you’re not sure where to start? We can help! Whether this is your first Media Literacy Week or your sixth, everyone can use some inspiration to help kickstart your media literacy activities.
This list of resources design specifically for K-5 educators, librarians, and community practitioners provides a sampling of past events that have been created by previous MLW participants as well as a list of age-appropriate media literacy resources from leading educational organizations like Common Sense, PBS Learning Media, and Scholastic.
This list of resources design specifically for educators, librarians, and community practitioners serving grades 6-8 provides a sampling of past events and activities that have been held by previous MLW participants as well as a list of age-appropriate media literacy resources from leading educational organizations like PBS Learning Media, KQED, and NewseumED.
This list of resources design specifically for high school educators, librarians, and community practitioners provides a sampling of past events that have been created by previous MLW participants as well as a list of age-appropriate media literacy resources from leading educational organizations like NewseumED, PBS Learning Media, and Project Look Sharp.
This list of resources, design specifically for educators, librarians, and community practitioners in the higher education setting, provides a sampling of past events that have been created by previous MLW participants as well as a list of age-appropriate media literacy resources from leading educational organizations like NAMLE, Media Smarts, and Project Look Sharp.
Library/Community Ed Resources
This list of resources design specifically for K-5 educators, librarians, and community practitioners provides a sampling of past events that have been created by previous MLW participants as well as a list of age-appropriate media literacy resources from leading educational organizations like Media Smarts, PBS Learning Media, and Project Look Sharp.
Looking for some more general ideas to which you can apply your own ideas and experience? Check out the ideas below and reimagine how you might modify these activities for your audience:
- Gather teachers for a professional development workshop
- Organize a screening and panel discussion at your school or in your community
- Create a film festival of youth media projects developed in your classroom
- Take your students on a tour of a local television station
- Host a webinar about news literacy
- Partner with your local maker space and explore new forms of reading and writing with emergent technology
- Explore a community issue and have youth come up with civically-minded creative solutions
- Debate the ethical opportunities and challenges of what “free” or “private” means online
