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The Media Monsters: A Media Literacy Lesson Plan for Grade 3-5 Educators Year of publication: 2021 Corporate author: National Association for Media Literacy Education (NAMLE) | Makefully Studios In response to the increasing amount of media children are exposed to on a regular basis, the National Association for Media Literacy Education (NAMLE) and Makefully Studios are teaming up to provide educators with unique content that will inspire relevant, rich, and age-appropriate discussion in their classrooms about how we all consume and interact with different types of media. Using this lesson plan, students will begin to identify, reflect and recognize behaviors and media practices in themselves, and identify the media literacy skills needed to improve the ways they engage with media and think critically about the media messages around them. 
Building Healthy Relationships With Media: A Parentโs Guide to Media Literacy Year of publication: 2020 Corporate author: National Association for Media Literacy Education (NAMLE) | Trend Micro This guide gives a few examples of how to incorporate questions into the conversation when discussing media and related topics with your children. It is vital for parents to model curiosity and skepticism in their discussions with their children. Teaching the next generation to be critical thinkers allows them to hone this important skill for navigating life in a digital world. 
Snapshot 2019: The State of Media Literacy Education in the U.S. Year of publication: 2019 Author: Sherri Hope Culver | Theresa Redmond Corporate author: National Association for Media Literacy Education (NAMLE) The intention of this SNAPSHOT is to provide information that may be useful in facilitating the development of media literacy education across the country and helping the U.S. education system align with the media-rich world in which students, and all citizens, are immersed today. Together, we seek to reinvigorate curricula so it is relevant to studentsโ lives and their 21st century education needs.The purpose of this SNAPSHOT is to inspire dialogue and create momentum to support research, training, practice, and policy efforts needed in order to grow the field of media literacy more fully as we enter 2020 and beyond.