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Diana Maliszewski

Hosting a Kindergarten Media Week in a Virtual Classroom

Media educators are everywhere, providing authentic experiences to their students in unique ways. This guest post, by author Jen Balido-Cadavez, shares the way that she involved…
Diana Maliszewski

Updating Older Media Lessons

This is an adapted version of a blog post called “Salvaging Old Lessons for New Students”, also written by Diana Maliszewski, that first appeared on the…
Diana Maliszewski

Part 2 NAMLE Conference 2021 Reflections

On August 26, I (Diana) posted my reflections from watching sessions from the 2021 NAMLE conference. While preparing the blog post, I noticed so many more…
Diana Maliszewski

NAMLE 2021 Conference Reflections

NAMLE 2021 Conference Reflections by Diana Maliszewski July 16-18, 2021 was the National Association for Media Literacy Education’s conference. This American organization shifted, like many other…
Neil Andersen

Media Literacy Triangle – Elementary

This triangle presents questions that mobilize the items on the Media Literacy Triangle. Do NOT engage all the questions at any one time. Select one or two…
Carol Arcus

Reading Jerry Craft’s “Class Act” & Unpacking Racial Profiling

Credit to @sylviaduckworth and @privtoprog on Twitter Recently, Vice President Diana Maliszewski presented a Grade 5/6 anti-racist Elementary unit at NAMLE’21. Power in the Picture:…
Carol Arcus

This Ain’t Your Mother’s Media Literacy

Neil Andersen boldly suggests that MLE needs now to address the hows and the whats of scale, audience experience and network effects, ideas that have emerged…
Carol Arcus

Our Home on Native Land: Anthems as Media Texts

AML presented at NAMLE 2021 this year, in a successful conference of media literacy educators and researchers. Here is our Vice President Diana Maliszewski’s…
Chelsea Attwell

Virtual Learning Environments & Student Agency in the Early Years

Chelsea Attwell, Vice President of the Association for Media Literacy, shares her 2021 NAMLE presentation, Exploring Virtual Learning Environments to Support Student Agency in the Early…
Neil Andersen

Young Children’s Book Awareness as Media Literacy

Many parents make a particular point of exposing their children to books at an early age and continue to promote a love of reading throughout their…