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Media, Youth and Civic Engagement

  • Understanding the media is key to participating in democracy. Media literacy education helps students become critical thinkers, encouraging them to become skeptical about political messages without becoming cynical about them. By constructing media messages, working collaboratively and participating in meaningful dialogue and social and political issues, students develop citizenship skills 

Events

  • World Summit on Children and Media
    Media educators and advocates for children and media --Join us in Sweden next summer for this important international event!
  • 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…
  • The Power of Youth Voice
    Experts shared their research and experiences using digital media during a recent forum in Philadelphia. You can watch Renee and her colleagues talk about this topic.
  • UCCP Leadership Course
    Youth Voices, a program of Temple's University Community Collaborative Partnership (UCCP) provides a staff development program to the young leaders who work with Philadelphia youth on media production projects associated…

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:



Research and Scholarship

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