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Teaching Resources

Curriculum Materials

The Media Education Lab creates free multimedia curriculum materials to help learners of all ages advance knowledge, skills, and competencies.

Courageous Conversations Curriculum

Courageous Conversations Curriculum

Lesson plans, videos, readings, listening and creative activities help build media literacy and active listening skills for teen and adult learners 

Media Education for Law Enforcement Officers

Media Education for Law Enforcement Officers

Media literacy instructional practices help police instructors use video to build critical thinking and communication skills

Design Studio at the Summer Institute in Digital Literacy

Design Studio at the Summer Institute in Digital Literacy

Participants created digital resources in this hands-on, minds-on learning experience

Digital and Media Literacy: A Process of Learning

Digital and Media Literacy: A Process of Learning

Hobbs' theoretical model of digital and media literacy positions media literacy as a lifelong learning process

Digital Learning Anytime and Real Time

Digital Learning Anytime and Real Time

An essential guide for educators designing synchronous and asynchronous learning experiences.

Librarians on YouTube

Librarians on YouTube

Examine the many different ways librarians are using YouTube to serve patrons and communities

Media Literacy Textbook

Media Literacy Textbook

Finally, a media literacy textbook written by Renee Hobbs!

News in Context

News in Context

Media Education Lab members featured in a 2-part podcast

A Starter Guide for Engaging Online Meetings

A Starter Guide for Engaging Online Meetings

We share the key insights we learned about online meetings into a crisp synthesis that helps everyone get started with the essential features of great online meetings!

Magazine Media Literacy

Magazine Media Literacy

Now in Spanish and English!