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Peer-to-Peer Leadership: What Does It Mean in a Social and Mobile World?
The idea that teenagers, properly trained and personally committed to offering solid advice and support, can serve as the best leaders and advisors to their fellow peers, is one that has evolved aggressively in the last twenty years. In an CONTINUE READING
The Impact of Images: What Kinds of Images Do Teens Want in the Media?
The media has a long history of distorting images to achieve commercial goals. From the anatomically impossible dimensions of the classic Barbie doll to the surprising impact of menswear imagery on young men, today the media’s history of manipulative conduct CONTINUE READING
Making Change: How Today’s Teens Can Have an Impact
One of the things teenagers quickly learn when they explore media literacy in-depth, is that advertisers, marketers and other interests spend enormous sums to influence their decisions. This raises an important question: How can teens use their time, talents and CONTINUE READING
How can teens help teens ‘get the message’?
Reaching young people with important messages about making good decisions, responding peer pressure, and avoiding drugs and alcohol has always been challenging. But a decade ago, the options for how to do so were much simpler. The choices were few: CONTINUE READING
Teens as Media Targets
Teenagers are uniquely susceptible to influence by the media for a number of reasons. According to research from California’s Palo Alto Medical Foundation, teenagers are particularly at risk for negative consequences from media manipulation in the areas of school life, eating/exercise/obesity, CONTINUE READING
Media and the Manipulation of the Millennials
Since the advent of mainstream broadcast television and the birth of post-World War II national corporations, Americans have been rightly concerned about the impact of advertising and media messaging on the younger generations. Today, youth are faced with an overwhelming CONTINUE READING
Innovation and new ideas permeate media education at Tacony Academy Charter School
Located in the Rhawnhurst neighborhood of northeast Philadelphia, Tacony Academy Charter School was established in 2009 as a city-wide charter school and currently serves 738 students from across the City of Phildelphia. Cornerstones of the school’s educational program include a CONTINUE READING
Commitment to media education, student involvement characterize Souderton Area High School
Souderton Area High School serves more than 2,000 students in a rural and suburban community north of Philadelphia in Montgomery and Bucks counties. Media development and engagement has been a critical part of the high school program of studies for CONTINUE READING
Student media lab, exciting electives allow Salisbury High School to connect students with the world
Salisbury High School was one of the three schools selected to participate in the Media Literacy High School program for 2012. Salisbury High School serves approximately 500 students and is part of the Salisbury Township School District located in the CONTINUE READING
