Alliance Provides ‘Core Principles’ for Media Literacy

Helping students sift through the countless messages they encounter on television, on the Internet, and in video games, newspapers, magazines, and other media is a complicated task for teachers in the information age. Now, the Alliance for a Media Literate America, or AMLA, is providing some direction through “core principles” for media-literacy education that are expected to be unveiled this month. The principles outline the Denver-based organization’s recommendations for teaching children to...