A web site designed for K-12 educators who want to:

• learn more about media literacy
• integrate it into classroom instruction
• help students read the media-help students become more media aware

Everywhere I go, teachers tell me that their students believe everything they see, read and hear. Students today aren't applying the critical thinking skills we know they need in order to become active, intelligent citizens and consumers of information. Today's students only know what they see on the screens (TV, computer, motion picture, video game) and they don't have a clue how it got to the screen: the process. Media literacy, among other things, is about helping them appreciate how media are constructed. When we "pull back the curtain," (on advertising, TV, film, propaganda ) we help them better understand how media work to influence and persuade:critical skills in a 21st century world.