Milestones

Milestones

1978

• AML founded
• First media literacy conference: The Media: How To Talk Back
  

• media education becomes part of the Ontario curriculum
• first Additional Qualifications courses offered for teachers
  

• The New Literacy Conference (Guelph 1)

• CAMEO (The Canadian Association of Media Education Organizations) founded
• Constructing Culture Conference (Guelph 2)
  

• AML Summer Institute 1

• AML Summer Institute 2

• AML Summer Institute 3

• The World Council on Media Education named AML the “most influential media education organization in North America.”

• Summit 2000: Children, Youth and the Media: Beyond the Millennium  – the world’s largest media education conference, with over 1500 participants from 54 countries

• The AML celebrates its 25th Anniversary

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