Teaching Kids About Commercials: Another Teachable Moment

[Frank W. Baker]

Media educator Frank Baker writes: We know our students are exposed to huge amounts of advertising and we know it influences their beliefs, attitudes and behaviors.  So it makes sense to teach with and about advertising for many reasons.

[Brenda Larabee]

Election year is definitely a great time for teaching about propaganda.

[Frank W. Baker]

You may be interested in a few of my recent writings about media and the elections:
http://www.middleweb.com/2551/media-literacy-politics/
and
http://www.middleweb.com/2880/watching-debates-with-kids/