Project Look Sharp

November 30, 2020

Project Look Sharp Featured in Article from Ithaca College News

Ithaca College News has written an article on Project Look Sharp entitled “A Global Impact” that discusses our two most recent grants, including one from the U.S. State Department to train English Language instructors in Panama on teaching media literacy through constructivist media decoding. Quotes from Executive/Director Cyndy Scheibe and Director of Curriculum Chris Sperry on Project Look Sharp’s recent...

News

June 29, 2020

New Report from Democracy Ready NY Promoting Media Literacy Education in NY State

We wanted to share some exciting news about the release of a vital new report from Democracy Ready NY entitled “Developing Digital Citizens: Media Literacy Education for All Students.” The report represents the strongest advocacy for media literacy in New York State to date. The report asserts that New York has been remiss in failing to equip schools to help students meet existing media...

News

June 29, 2020

Pride and Protest

With June designated as LGBTQ Pride Month, the analysis of media messages about gender and sexual identities is particularly relevant – including lessons in the unit on Gay Liberation in the curriculum kit, “Media Constructions of Social Justice.”

Blogs

June 19, 2020

It’s Different This Time

In a deeply personal blog post, Project Look Sharp’s Executive Director reflects on the roles that media have played in bringing us face-to-face with racial violence and police brutality, and how her own lived experience as a media literacy educator in a family of color have made a difference.

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May 12, 2020

Teaching Critical Thinking and Protecting the Science

How can we teach students to think critically about scientific disinformation without just telling them the facts and what to believe? Is presenting media messages reflecting different perspectives for analysis too big a risk when the science is clear?

Blogs

April 22, 2020

Honoring Earth Day and Green Media Literacy

Sustainability and environmental issues have long been a key focus for Project Look Sharp, and April’s Earth Day provides a great opportunity to showcase hundreds of our free lessons on those topics, for elementary grades through college.

Blogs

March 31, 2020

Cultivating Resilience in a Time of Uncertainty

Written at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, this post explores ways to use media analysis to help build resilience through engaging in powerful dialogue and reflection about media, fear, and our commitment to take actions for a better future.

Blogs

March 24, 2020

Using Project Look Sharp’s Free Resources and Lessons for Online Learning

When schools and colleges suddenly went online in the spring of 2020, many educators struggled with how to keep students engaged. We explore and demonstrate ways to do that using constructivist media decoding with our free materials.

Blogs

March 10, 2020

Why We Need to Think Critically about the Facts – and the Factcheckers

In today’s complex information world, factchecking (and critical thinking in general) is more important than ever. But what does “critical thinking” mean? And how can we do our own factchecking – including questioning those who do factchecking for us?

Blogs

March 3, 2020

Girls and Women: History, HerStory, a Movement Forward – and We’re Not There Yet

Our curriculum kit, “Media Constructions of Social Justice,” includes units on Women’s Suffrage and Women’s Liberation, and there are dozens of other lessons that revolve around media messages showing women in politics, as environmental heroes, and much more.

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