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Games for Online Learning

  • Digital media tools combine play and learning, creating immersive, participatory environments.The Media Education Lab explores how online multimedia can support the development of the 4 C's: critical thinking, collaboration, creativity and communication skills,

Events

  • Digital Media and Learning Conference, Feb 18 - 20
    Join Renee Hobbs and members of the Media Education Lab at the DML Conference in LaJolla, California on February 18 - 20 for this exciting conference on digital media and…
  • Media Education Lab Wins Creative Projects Prize at AEJMC
    Our collaborative project, Access, Analyze, Act: a Blueprint for 21st Century Civic Engagement won the Creative Projects Award from the Visual Communication Division at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass…
  • Remixing as Learning
    Renee Hobbs, Juan Devis, Eric Blankenship, Ricardo Pitts-Wiley and Alice Robison participated in a panel on remixing as learning.You can watch a video of the event at MIT world. 
  • Designing an Online Media Literacy Game for Girls
    Learn about the process used by Temple researchers to create a new interactive website designed to help preteen and teen girls think critically about media messages. Location: Tech Center, Temple…

Curriculum Materials

The Media Education Lab is one of the leading providers of multimedia curriculum resources for K-12 media literacy education. Take advantage of our extensive collection of free resources below:



  • Digital Workshops for the Digital Nation
    Renee Hobbs and her colleagues at the Media Education Lab developed the Digital Workshops for Parents and Educators as part of Frontline's "Digital Nation," premiering February 2, 2010.
  • My Pop Studio
    My Pop Studio is an online creative play experience for girls ages 9 - 14 designed to promote media literacy. The project was supported by a grant from the U.S.…

Research and Scholarship

Some of the publications of members of the Media Education Lab team: