, Filed Under: Organizations, Youth Media
Media Smart is a media literacy programme for 7 to 16 year olds that creates free educational materials for schools and youth organisations, for teachers and guardians, to help young people think critically about the advertising they come across in their daily lives.
Media Smart’s materials use real and current examples of advertising that we’re all familiar with to help teach core media literacy skills, and the organisation is funded by the UK advertising industry.
, Filed Under: Media & Information Literacy, Organizations
Media Smart is a non profit media literacy program for school children aged 6 to 11 years old, focused on advertising.
Media Smart develops and provides, free of charge and on request, educational materials to primary schools that teach children to think critically about advertising in the context of their daily lives.
Our materials use real examples of advertising to teach core media literacy skills.
Teachers are able to find curriculum links, and other forms of materials such as activity sheets.
Kids can access the site and play fun games and parents can find out more about the program and how to teach children to think about the media.