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Building Agency through Play-Based Collaborative Learning: A Primary Students’ Community-Environment-as-Media Inquiry A presentation by AML’s Vice President Chelsea Attwell and Carol Arcus, Director, for the 2021 international Media Education Summit, March 31 & April 1. This presentation poses the question, “How might understanding “environment as media” inspire play, support children’s agency, and create space for…
The following thread from @Jess5th on Twitter (otherwise known as Jessica Lifshitz, an American elementary school teacher) is a great example of rich discussion, excellent scaffolding, and critical thinking. Although Jess did not necessarily create this as a “media lesson”, it incorporates several key concepts for media literacy. All media are constructions The media construct…
AML’s National Media Education Week Event, November 2007 On Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2007 the AML held the fall event entitled Feature Film & Popular Culture in support of National Media Education Week. Held in the OISE library, the well-attended event (which was webcast – an AML first!) featured guest speakers followed by a group discussion….
Smart devices, like all technologies, have many sides. From the users’ side, we think that smart devices are good because they make decisions on their own, needing less supervision and control from us. Want to phone someone? Just speak to your smartphone. It looks up the number and initiates the call, hands free. Woo hoo….
YouTube Inside Tik Tok’s Money Machine by Neil Andersen Many students aspire to…
. How might parents and teachers discuss leaders’ questionable role modeling? Parents and teachers work very hard to encourage positive social values. They constantly discuss appropriate behaviours in a variety of situations to help their children successfully navigate challenges in their classroom, generic extracurricular and online lives. (you can download a printable version here)…