LITERACY TEACHING TOOLKIT- This site provides a bit of background information on media literacy and how to effectively teach it. It also provides a sample class activity on teaching media literacy to students through memes. The goal of the activity is to get students to consider on a deeper and more conscious level what the intentions behind someone posting a meme online may be and to understand that even the seemingly harmless posts they may encounter on social media can contain biases and manipulate information. This class activity is a great resource for teachers to have because it provides a real-world example of how students can identify biases in media. Most, if not all, students in middle/high school today have accounts on at least some social media platforms. By educating students using a medium they are accustomed to encountering on the internet, teachers are able to better communicate media literacy to their students. In my future teaching career, I can utilize an activity such as the one provided in this resource to aid my instruction on media literacy.  Using activities like this one, I can better reach my students and give them experience in spotting biased content in a form they are more than likely to encounter on their own.

PROJECT LOOK SHARP- This project provides various resources on media literacy for teachers, librarians, parents, and schools. The focus of the pedagogy exemplified in this project is on understanding why some media is presented in the manner it is, as well as why students- or anyone, really- interpret that media in the manner that they do. There are over 500 free lessons available on the site! These lessons are applicable to many content areas, so teachers are able to teach media literacy to their students no matter which class they teach. Some handouts that are available on the site include Key Concepts of Media Analysis (available in varying languages, including Spanish), Tips for Decoding Media, and Media Literacy Objectives. Using these handouts, a teacher can clearly communicate the goals and methods of critical media analysis to their students. Project Look Sharp also has sample lessons available which contain various topics tailored for students as young as early elementary all the way through college students. In my own teaching career, I could use the handouts the site provides as well as the lessons in order to teach about media literacy. The site also offers professional development resources, including workshops and courses for teachers. I could also use these resources in order to better educate myself on critical media literacy and how to use and model it in the classroom. 

CRITICAL MEDIA PROJECT- This site gives a more general overview of critical media literacy as a concept. It talks about how deeply teens today are involved in social media and the Internet, and how important critical media literacy truly is. Critical Media Project specifically talks about critical media literacy in terms of marginalized groups on the Internet. The site has sections representing these groups and lessons created to talk about why they are presented on the Internet in a certain way. For example, the "age" section of the website outlines a lesson on ageism in media and why age is portrayed the way that it is in popular media. There are also similar sections that contain lessons on the common media portrayals of class, disability, gender, LGBTQ+ individuals, race/ethnicity, and religion. Teachers could use this resource to take a more specified look at how content may be manipulated based on the poster's bias or intentions. The specifications of marginalized groups allow teachers to create a more narrow lesson for students on how these groups are respectively represented on social media, and how biases can influence their characterization in different online spaces. In my own teaching career, I can use this project to highlight how biased content can change the interpretation of content online in the context of talking about marginalized communities specifically. I can use this site to exemplify for my students how misinformation about these communities is able to spread so rapidly and easily online.

MEDIASMARTS- This site catalogs various resources for teachers on critical media literacy, including essays on media literacy, as well as educational games and e-Tutorials for both teachers and parents. These resources are helpful in critical media literacy instruction because they provide information on media literacy across multiple forms of media, not just on the Internet. Teachers can use the resources provided on this site in order to better educate themselves on critical media literacy, as well as to assist them in actually teaching critical media literacy to their students. Teachers can use the games provided to make their lesson on critical media literacy more interactive for students, as well as use the articles to learn more from fellow educators on why critical media literacy is necessary to teach. This site also contains a separate section that outlines resources specifically beneficial to teachers. In this section, teachers can find lesson plans and licensed resources to aid them in their instruction. I can use this resource in my teaching career to ensure that I am keeping up with the latest information on this pedagogy, as well as to help explain to students why they should care about media literacy.