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Diana Maliszewski

How To Assess Group Media Tasks (One Potential Method)

By Diana Maliszewski with Neil Andersen Students can create some astounding media creations, especially as a collaborative venture. The challenge can be about how to…
Diana Maliszewski

40+ Blog Posts to Celebrate AML’s 40th Anniversary

The Association for Media Literacy officially came into existence in 1978. To commemorate the 40th anniversary of the organization, our executive board…
Carol Arcus

Sex and Elephants in the Room

It is very curious that, with all the sturm und drang that accompanied the long-overdue release of Ontario’s Sex Education/Health Curriculum, no one acknowledged the elephants…
Neil Andersen

Algorithms and Media Literacy

by Helen J. DeWaard Algorithms and media aren’t usually considered together. Algorithms are thought to be mathematical and computational sequences that manage our computer data. Media…
Neil Andersen

Does Seth MacFarlane triumph or flop as Oscars host? You decide.

They didn’t get it, at least not the dozen reviewers and bloggers I read the morning after the awards ceremony. In some cases, reviewers trashed MacFarlane’s…
Neil Andersen

The Right Side of History

* In November, 2018, Jesse—’CBC tech columnist’—Hirsh appeared in his regular time slot on the Metro Morning radio show to comment on Facebook’s long list of…
Neil Andersen

Podcasts: Canadaland

https://www.canadalandshow.com/ Canadaland is a Toronto-based podcast created by Jesse Brown, a journalist who is pioneering the next evolution of Canadian journalism by living it. Mr. Brown’s…
Diana Maliszewski

AML Board Members Share Their Favourite Media Text: Part 7 – Michelle Solomon

Michelle Solomon is a Media Specialist currently teaching in the TDSB. She received her MA in English from McMaster University, where she worked as a TA…
Neil Andersen

Double-Standards—Triple Standards

We have created—and are living with the consequences of—a 3-tiered content standards for video. The standards differences have created and impacted artistic and business conditions…
Diana Maliszewski

AML Board Members Share Their Favourite Media Text: Part 5 – Neil Andersen

Neil Andersen is the current president of The Association for Media Literacy and the rest of this biography has been shamelessly plagiarized from his LinkedIn profile.…