Media, Education, Arts and Literacy Project
At last! Results of a recently completed demonstration project under the auspices of the AMLA validate that the arts in media literacy education improves core learning for all students! The M.E.A.L. Project, funded with a grant from the U.S. Department of Education to AMLA, was developed and delivered by AMLA organizational member, Just Think, in two San Francisco middle schools. Evaluation was conducted by the Michael Cohen Group of New York. This section is rich with information about the project and the curriculum, as well as schools, teachers and students that participated.
Highlights
What is important about the project?
Find out the significance of the M.E.A.L. Project in this online report from AMLA’s 2007 Research Summit, And read the theme-setting article in the Winter 2006 issue of Threshold magazine.
Kids Make Media
View the collection of amazing videos made by students as well as videos showing students engaged and hard at work.
Implementation Across the Curriculum
Free lesson plans are available for Math, Science, Social Studies and Language Arts. Blogs kept by teachers and by individual classrooms document the ups and downs of implementation.
Ideas from everywhere
Check out M.E.A.L.’s resource list – a great collection of websites and teaching materials for media literacy education.
"Implementation of the curriculum . . . produced significant educational benefits for students."
--M.E.A.L. Final Report, Michael Cohen Group
