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Read AML’s latest news, classroom strategies, and commentary on current issues through a media literacy lens.

Diana Maliszewski

Eggs: Not That Kind

Eggs – Not That Kind by Diana Maliszewski Today’s blog post has appeared on my personal blog (Monday Molly Musings) as well as the Association for…
Carol Arcus

AML Presents at the 2021 Media Education Summit!

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…
Carol Arcus

OLA 2021: Clever Minds & Human Hearts

The Ontario Library Association’s annual OLA SuperConference, was held virtually February 3-6, 2021. The theme was “Clever Minds and Human Hearts”. AML Vice President Diana Maliszewski &…
Carol Arcus

Mediacy Podcasts – Resources & Links

Mental Wellness One Year On in the Pandemic Wellness expert Glenys Vivian returned to help Neil and Carol understand how to support those around us, and…
Sarah Bayne

It’s All Political: Our Texts, Talk, & Teaching

This past August, two of our AML board members, Diana and Sarah, had the opportunity to present at the Beginning Teachers Conference. This year, the conference…
Carol Arcus

Grade 11 EMS30 Media Studies course on TVO’s Open House!

TVO is Ontario’s publicly funded English-language educational television network and media organization that serves the Canadian province of Ontario. They are continuing to offer free 24/7…
Neil Andersen

Masking and Unmasking

by Irene Faiz This media literacy unit on COVID-19 masks was designed for a Grade 10 Secondary English class. I plan to use many of these…
Neil Andersen

The Presidential Election Debates Resources

The October 5 and 12 Mediacy episodes referenced transcribed versions of the debate recordings that might be useful for Secondary Media Literacy, English, Drama, Civics, Journalism…
Carol Arcus

An Anti-Racist Curriculum through Media Literacy

Curio.ca by Michelle Solomon and Carol Arcus These resource materials are the beginning of an ongoing bank of resources that will allow teachers to build an…
Diana Maliszewski

Animal Crossing New Horizons: Popularity and Possibilities for Understanding Key Concepts

I think this is the first time that I will have posted an identical blog post in three different virtual places simultaneously: (L-R) Mary, Peter, Diana…