Ad literacy, an ability of understanding and interpreting advertisements properly, is important
especially to children in the current society. However, educational programs for ad literacy in Korea
have been scarce as well as research efforts regarding this issue. Under this circumstance, this study
found a research need for ad literacy education and thus attempted to examine whether the AIE
(advertising-in-education) program devised to foster critical thinking of elementary students would
also influence their attitudes toward advertising in general. Based on the analyses of tracking data
collected before and after the education, several implications and directions for future research were
discussed.