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Helpful Media Literacy
Resources for Parents
SPONGEHEADZ: U & MEdia, written by AME member and nationally recognized media critic Lynn Ziegler, is the essential parent handbook for 21st century media. It turns your remote control into a teaching tool, offering a topic about each button.
Let's Get Critical: A Media Literacy Toolkit For Parents, Kids And Teachers
A general overview for the media savvy parent with an option for
a Media Literacy Tool kit for parents
Parents:
Control, Choice & Education
A thorough discussion of Media Literacy, click on Media Literacy
101.
Children Now
Features a wide variety of media topics focusing on media and
its relationship to children, legislation, and entertainment.
Over 50 articles with meaningful titles such as "Just Say No To Garfield" and "Media Help Fill Grandparent Gap".
Choice,
Control, and Education
A Canadian site with links and information for parents.
TV Talk: Isn't It
Time We Taught Children to "Read" TV?
Shows parents how to form a Media Literacy study group through
church, community or school.
Don't
Buy It: Get Media Smart!
Kid-friendly activities that challenge kids to question advertising,
evaluate media and become wise consumers.
Media
Awareness Network
Provides practical support for media education in the home, community
and school.
Media Literacy Clearinghouse
A list of general resources on a array of subjects dealing with
Media Literacy.
National Institute
on Media and the Family
Provides educational tools and material to help parents, teachers
and community to understand the influence of the media. Also includes
movie and video game ratings.
Other Resources
Taking Charge of Your TV
A free 20-page booklet is available from the National Parent Teacher
Association and the National Cable Television Association. It
offers parents
tips on critical viewing that can help improve the quality
of their whole family's television
viewing habits.
The Smart
Parent’s Guide to Kids’ TV
A book that provides an informative, thoughtful examination of the steps parents can take to make TV viewing an enriching experience for the whole family.
Screen Smarts: A Family Guide to Media Literacy
"Sure to be the definitive sourcebook on media literacy, this book
addresses all the vital media-related issues for children through
the age of 14 and offers proactive strategies for supporting
children's optimal development in a media age."
Media
Alert: 200 Activities to Create Media-Savvy Kids
"The 50 learning units in this best-selling book offer a wealth
of creative media activities for four age groups from elementary
through high school. Includes insightful questions, challenging
projects and engaging discussion topics to help meet standards
in social studies, language arts and health as well as life skills
and basic production courses."
Selling Out America's Children
"Selling Out America’s Children has stimulated a national
dialogue on the impact of violence in the media on families and
children. David Walsh, Ph.D. examines why essential morals and
values are missing in today’s youth. He also encourages us
to work for change and take our responsibility to our children
seriously."