Association for Media Literacy (AML)

Teaching Media Literacy

Are you a teacher seeking inspiration for your classroom? The AML offers a rich range of stimulating lessons and ideas, frameworks, suggested readings, and other online resources.

Election Signs – Easy Lessons for Elementary

October 8, 2019

Elections are great opportunities for students to examine a particular media text that often [...]

Barry Duncan – Our Founder and Mentor

October 6, 2019

Barry Duncan was our founder, our mentor, and our great friend. If not for Barry, AML would not [...]

Media Literacy Tips for Beginning Teachers

October 1, 2019

AML offered exciting media literacy lessons, ideas, and tips (below) for newly hired educators [...]

Exploring Gender with T-shirts

September 24, 2019

Here is a simple yet effective way to identify and break down gender stereotypes, and can be [...]

Parking Lot Field Trip – Car Logos

September 24, 2019

Field trip? Why not! This excursion doesn’t take any permission forms or money to run [...]

Taking Old Town Road to School

September 22, 2019

Little Nas X’s Old Town Road holds the record for most weeks on the Billboard chart. [...]

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Professional Development

If you are looking for additional training in media literacy education, we can help provide speakers, workshops, writing, consulting, and other resources. The AML has been offering a Media Studies Additional Qualifications course through the Toronto District School Board since 2017, which is available to teachers in Ontario.

Our AQ Course

Our Speakers

Our experienced team is expert in media literacy and available for speaking engagements, workshop facilitation, media interviews, writing projects, and consultations. Select a speaker to learn more about their background, speaking topics, and more.