News Items

Name

Topic

Approximate Time

Cathy Wing and Warren Nightingale, Canada’s Media-awareness Network

This presentation will describe recent Media-awareness Network activities with students who were studying representations of youth.

10:00 a.m.

Ryan Andersen, teacher, Toronto District School Board

This presentation will describe how media production was used to enrich learning in a grade 3 science unit.

10:30 a.m.

Maureen Baron, Human Resources Manager and Media Education Consultant, English Montreal School Board

Two presentations.   Each presentation will provide a context, suggested learning activities and resources for teaching a cross-curricular language arts and media literacy unit, one in English and one en français.

11:00 a.m.

Ian Esqiuvel,

Instructional Leader, English, Literacy and Media Literacy,

Toronto District School Board, Toronto, Ontario

Ian will describe media education activities in Toronto high schools.

He will also describe and discuss the teacher in-service Additional Qualifications courses in media education currently offered by the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education/University of Toronto and York University.

11:30 a.m.

Kari Dehli

Ontario Institute for Studies in Education/University of Toronto

A description and discussion of the media education activities of the Media Education Working Group, an ad hoc committee of academics, activists, and professionals that is promoting a variety of media education initiatives.

12:00 p.m.

Barry Duncan,

Founder, Association for Media Literacy, Ontario

Barry will explore the intersection between media literacy and critical pedagogy.

12:30 p.m.

Jacqui Bannon and a grade 3 class from the Peel District School Board

These grade 3 students will describe and discuss how they use media reading strategies to find the main ideas in media texts.

1:00 p.m.

Allina Lee and a grade 5 class from Toronto District School Board

These grade 5 students will describe and discuss how they are thinking critically about the portrayal of families on television.

1:30 p.m.

Andrea Bennett

University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario

Ms. Bennett will describe and discuss the production of a website and documentary that are designed to raise awareness and action toward poverty and poverty-related issues in the Guelph community.

2:00 p.m.

Lee Rother, Ph.D.

McGill University, Montreal, Quebec

Lee will discuss the challenges and benefits of media education in developing countries, specifically the West Bank and Nigeria.

2:30 p.m.

Paul Baines, media educator, producer, organizer

Paul will share and frame questions of pedagogy through self-reflections on his media production and media education activities.

3:00 p.m.

Michael Dezuanni

Lecturer in pre-service Media and English Education, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia

Mr. Dezuanni   will describe the pre-service training at   the Queensland University of Technology.   He will also describe and discuss how students use mashups to support their media education.

3:30 p.m.