Books, Videos, Curricula and other teaching resources

Where can you find the best teaching and learning materials for media education? These organizations have excellent materials. Also, see our book recommendations in each topic area on this website.

Center for Media Literacy This organization has migrated its teaching resources store to the Alliance for a Media Literate America. As of April 2008, the AMLA does not quite have the bookstore launched, but keep the site bookmarked and check back frequently. The Center for Media Literacy itself has an extensive Reading Room, including articles from all back issues of Media&Values, the first U.S. periodical to examine media and its impact on our lives. Be sure to download the valuable MediaLit Kit ™ , their exclusive guidebook on how to teach media literacy.

National Institute on Media and the Family Excellent parent- and family-oriented books, tapes, curriculum kits and the MediaWise Certification Program for parents and schools.

Media Education Foundation Leading-edge resources, primarily for older teens, college-age and adults. MEF videos and study guides address important topics not usually covered in K-12 materials, such as gender roles and sexism in the media, global corporatization of media, commercialism and consumer culture, media portrayals of race and sexual orientation, media violence, alternative viewpoints, and much more. Powerful stuff, not for the faint-hearted. Highly recommended.

New Mexico Media Literacy Project   Innovative CD-ROM teaching resources, study guides and other materials, primarily around media influence on young people through advertising. Also new K-12 curriculum materials. Titles include Hands-On Media Literacy: Valuable Skills for Teens and Young Learners; Blowing Away Big Tobacco's Big Lies: Media Literacy for Tobacco Prevention; and Media Literacy for Health: A K-12 Activity Curriculum.