Designed to increase the critical thinking skills of K12 learners in all content areas, this session provides multiple methods to analyze media messages.  Expanding the concept of literacy to include all forms of media, teachers will learn innovative ways to engage students using both high and low technological options in active inquiry about messages they receive and create.  Teachers will gain skills to provide students with opportunities to examine alternative media and international perspectives. Additionally, teachers will discover how to create an interactive learning environment which develops the kind of informed, reflective individuals equipped to participate in a democratic society.