At the 1998 and 1999 conferences, many participants expressed an interest in forming a national professional association for persons interested in media literacy. Media literacy is not about content, it's about process. It's such a constantly changing field, there isn't a curriculum set in stone. The grade you teach and your subject areas would influence the materials you use. Please check our catalog pages, where you will find books, videos and other materials to help you better understand today's media culture and teach others.
Most teaching kits have complete lesson plans, handout masters and other tools.
Many of the videos are divided into teaching segments of several minutes each. With just a couple of hours of preparation, any teacher or group leader new to this subject can begin to teach media literacy with basic resources developed by our Center. Many people ask us that, but there isn't one group keeping statistics, and it's impossible to survey every classroom in 16,000 U.S. school districts. England, Australia, and most every other industrialized nation also do a good job of media education. Combined with the individual preferences exhibited by each classroom teacher, the introduction of new subject matter in the curriculum becomes a Hydra of complexity.