Events

  • 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…
  • Media Literacy Townhall Meetings in Philadelphia and Boston
    The Media Education Lab co-hosted "Eye on the Media,"  two media literacy townhall events in Boston and Philadelphia sponsored by the Independent Film Channel and featuring "The IFC Media Project,"…
  • Rebooting the News: Reconsidering an Agenda for American Civic Education
    As the Internet increasingly puts two-way communication tools into the hands of all citizens, American teen-agers should be taught techniques for analyzing and creating news, a group of educators, scholars and journalists has…
  • Explorations into the New World of Digital Publications
    Newspapers and news magazines are migrating toward the world of electronic distribution and readers are faced with more choices than ever regarding how they want information delivered. As digital delivery…

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:



  • Access, Analyze, Act: a Blueprint for 21st Century Civic Engagement
    The Media Education Lab team created this dynamic multimedia curriculum including lesson plans, three videos and an online quiz that measures youth civic engagement.  These lessons show educators how to…
  • IFC Media Project Quiz and Resources
    How discerning are you when it comes to analyzing news and entertainment?  Take this quiz!
  • Iranian Youth and Media Literacy
    Curriculum Resources from the Youth Media Workshop for Iranian American Youth, held in Philadelphia from August 3 - 7, 2009 at the Asian Arts Initiative. See the lesson plans and…
  • Messages & Meanings
    Developed in collaboration with the Newspaper Association of America, Messages & Meanings is a collection of curriculum activities for analyzing print and electronic media. This resource includes instructional activities for…

Research and Scholarship

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