Critical Media Project Website - Engaging Students in Media Literacy and Culture

Recently I stumbled on an interesting site connected to media literacy, equity, culture, and empathy.
From the site:

Critical Media Project (CMP) is a free media literacy web resource for educators and students (ages 8-21) that enhances young people’s critical thinking and empathy, and builds on their capacities to advocate for change around questions of identity. CMP has a two-fold mission:

• To raise critical awareness and provide the tools to decode media representations of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, socio-economic class, religion, age, and disability, and develop an understanding as to how these identities intersect
• To encourage and offer guidance for students to tell their own stories, create their own representations, and uphold their status as active and engaged participants in civic society.

cmp learning objectives

• EXPLORE: To observe and become cognizant of messages about identity that surface in everyday media and culture
• EXPAND: To understand and gain perspective on the historical, social, and political contexts of media representations of different identities
• EXCAVATE & EXPLICATE: To critically decode and develop skills to analyze the meanings (and ideologies) behind various representations of identity across media genres and platforms
• EXPRESS & ENGAGE: To develop and deploy strategies and skills to create one’s own representations, tell own stories, and create counter-narratives

I would love to know if or how you use these resources with your students?