Curriculum Materials
The Media Education Lab creates free multimedia curriculum materials to help learners of all ages advance knowledge, skills, and competencies.
Pushing Back
Responding to Representation of Drug and Alcohol Abuse among High School Learners
Nonviolent Communication for Talking about Coronavirus
Talk about feelings & needs in ways that promote compassion & empathy
Internet: Indispensable or Evil?
Guided inquiry & viewing of Adam Ruins the Internet helps learners reflect on the pros and cons of media regulation.
Design Studio at the Summer Institute in Digital Literacy
Participants created digital resources in this hands-on, minds-on learning experience
Digital and Media Literacy: A Process of Learning
Hobbs' theoretical model of digital and media literacy positions media literacy as a lifelong learning process
Understanding Implicit Bias: The Power of Reflection
Learners gain insight on themselves when they reflect on their own perceptual and cognitive biases
PBS News Hour Student Reporting Labs
A hands-on media production curriculum for developing news literacy skills with high school students.
Planet of Propaganda
Learn about propaganda education initiatives in Belgium, Croatia, Romania, Poland and Finland
Critically Analyzing Teen TV
Take a close look at iCarly to examine the use of humor and the representation of social roles and the ethical use of digital technologies
All About Media
Books for young learners: It's never to early to be smart about media!