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Information Technology & Internet Resources

• Caught on the Web: Online Advertising Targets Kids ... an online lesson plan to help teach media literacy.

• Center for Media Literacy ... online articles.

• Center on English Learning and Research (CELA) ... online paper proposes a set of cumulative standards for assessing the use of non print media and electronic technologies in K-12 classrooms.

• Educational Resources in Media Literacy/Studies ... curricular resources, instructional materials, and thematic ideas.  Hosted by the Community Learning Network (CLN).

• Epic - Making it Happen ... an online Flash movie that looks at the history of the Internet, the evolving mediascape and then predicts ways that news and newspapers will be affected by the growth of online news.

• Kids on the Net: Critical Thinking Skills for Web Literacy ... for grades 1-12, marketing strategies by age group and ways that educators and students can respond.

• Media Awareness Network ... this site, maintained by a Canadian non-profit organization, promotes media literacy including the Internet (in addition to television, movies, video games and music).

• Reclaim Your Brain ... an online BBC article that addresses the vast amount of information that is generated due to e-mail, text messaging, mobile phone calls, TV and web sites as well as the implications on society and on the individual's brain.

• Television Goes to School ... a resource published by the Education Department of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, on the use of television with formal education, released January 2004 (an Adobe PDF format).

• VidKids ... ways to teach video, maintained by the High Plains Regional Technology Education Consortium (HPR*TEC).

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