Media Smarts
Media Smarts
Canada's Centre for Digital and Media Literacy provides resources regarding media violence, media stereotyping, online hate, and information privacy. Each article is available in English and French.
Media Smarts
Media Awareness Network: Tv's Impact on Kids
An informative site about the effects of TV on kids. Areas such as violence, sex, good things about TV, ,and special teen issues are also discussed.
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The Influence of Media Violence on Youth [Pdf]
Useful for papers and research projects about the effects of media violence on youth, this report was published in an academic journal.
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Pbs Learning Media: The Tulsa Race Massacre: What Happened: Tulsa: The Fire and the Forgotten
Although rarely mentioned in textbooks, there is no question that the Tulsa Race Massacre was one of the most horrific incidents of racial violence in American history. This media gallery from Tulsa: The Fire and the Forgotten provides...
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Pbs Learning Media: Point of View: Roll Red Roll: Transforming a Culture of Silence Preventing Sexual Violence and Rape
When you witness an injustice, remaining silent or acting as a bystander is an active choice that is an impediment to justice. In this lesson young scholars will have the opportunity to examine the consequences of remaining silent...
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Pbs News Hour: A Deadly Trend
Transcript of an interview with three experts on the issue of school violence, following the school shooting in Springfield, Oregon in 1998. (Aired: May 22, 1998)
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Pbs Learning Media: Point of View: Roll Red Roll: Lesson Plan Clips
When you witness an injustice, remaining silent or acting as a bystander is an active choice that is an impediment to justice. For this lesson young scholars will have the opportunity to examine the consequences of remaining silent...
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Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: The Great Migration
This collection uses primary sources to explore the Great Migration.
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Pbs Learning Media: Point of View: Minding the Gap: Lesson Plan Clips
Minding the Gap is a coming of age film by Bing Liu. Starting in high school, Bing begins to make skate videos. What starts as a hobby ends up as a profound exploration of issues that is likely to resonate deeply with students. These are...
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Pbs Learning Media: Point of View: Minding the Gap: Lesson Plan
Minding the Gap is a coming of age film by Bing Liu. Starting in high school, Bing begins to make skate videos. What starts as a hobby ends up as a profound exploration of issues that is likely to resonate deeply with students.
Partnership for Drug-Free Kids
National Youth Anti Drug Media Campaign: Above the Influence: Rohypnol Facts
This resource provides inforamtion about the risks of using Rohypnol, commonly known as roofies.
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Northern Valley High School: A Project on Youth Gangs
Young scholars will explore the dangers gangs pose to themselves and their school communities in this WebQuest. Students will research youth gangs and create media campaigns for middle school young scholars to persuade them to stay out...
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Cyberbullying Research Center
This site has links to other sites about cyberbullying. Cyberbullying is when E-mail, Instant Messaging (IM), Chatrooms, Bash Boards, Small Text-Messages (SMS), Web Sites, and Voting Booths are used to spread rumors, negative images,...
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Victims Are Helped From the Bombed Club
A news analysis of the recent upsurge in violence in Colombia with the bombing of a club in the capital itself. The article is dated February 8, 2003.
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Middle East Clashes
A young person's guide to the problems between Israel and the Palestinians. Various topics are explored such as how Palestine was created, why is there violence happening and much more.
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Colombian Woman Grieves by the Coffin of Her Son, in Antioquia in February 2005
This article gives details on why there is so much unrest in Colombia and who the major groups are that are behind the violence. The report is dated May 2003.
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Colombian Anti Narcotics Police Carry Out an Operation in September 2004
This article gives details on why there is so much unrest in Colombia and who the major groups are that are behind the violence. The report is dated May 2003.
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Colin Powell
Secretary of State Colin Powell reports that the United States is still planning elections for Iraq, but that violence in Iraq was escalating. 9/26/2004
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Bbc: Insurgency in Iraq Intensifying
Secretary of State Colin Powell reports that the United States is still planning elections for Iraq, but that violence in Iraq was escalating. 9/26/2004
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Bbc: Allawi to Stand in Iraq Elections
Despite the insurgency and violence in Iraq, hopes are high for elections to take place. Here is a report on the situation as of December, 2004.
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Sign Outside the Convention Center
Amid reports that there was an increase in crime in violence in New Orleans during in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, this September, 2005, article contends that those reports were exaggerated.