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Teachers:  Look for Classroom Focus/media literacy discussion questions at the end of each news item. Some also have links to free lesson plans or curriculum resources.

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Advertising & Consumerism (including marketing, public relations, branding, commercialism in schools)
Global Media Issues (news & politics, democracy, media economics, etc.)
Health & Behavior (including Media Violence)
Kids, Parents & Media (family media issues)
Making Media (youth, indy & community media; art & music)
Media Ecology (media and human values)
Representation (media portrayals of race, gender, age, sexual orientation, etc. )
Religion & Media
Media Technology
Visual & Aural Literacy (communicating with images and sound)
 
 
 
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