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From Memphis to Missouri: Voices and Echoes
*Blog post by Laurie Townshend with extension activities by Michelle Solomon The U.S. Civil Rights Movement reached a peak in the 1960’s with widespread reactions to…
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Using media to develop critical literacy skills
by Diana Luciani, former AML Board member; teacher – Peel District School Board, Ontario These lessons inform the Media Strand of Ontario’s Grade 9 Applied-level English…
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Parody Songs and Media Literacy
Love Pharrell Williams and Weird Al Yankovic? Want to have some fun with your students? Use these fun videos to get them thinking critically about the…
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Production Rubrics
Many thanks to Nina Silver for sharing the following Secondary assessment/evaluation tools. Dracula PSA Audacity Sound Production Rubric 2DL Media News Story Evaluation Photo Essay Evaluation…
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Can an ad concept be copyrighted?
(Note: some material below is no longer available online. However, the ideas are still useful and can be applied to other texts – ed.) This ‘text…
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The Media* as Opposition: Covering Trump in a Post-Truth Era**
*The Canadian Journalism Foundation sponsored 2 panel presentations exploring the theme of Media as Opposition on May 24, 2017. Four of the five speakers in the…
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The BFG
Neil Andersen presented Media Literacy and The BFG at Reading for the Love It, Toronto, February 24, 2017. The slides are here: BFG Image attribution: Disney
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Privacy is Agency
“I haven’t done anything wrong, so why should I care what information is collected and shared about me?” The privacy crisis is about agency. It’s not…
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Guide Exploring Science and Technology in Film
https://scienceandfilm.org/articles/2785/announcing-the-sloan-science-film-teachers-guide The Museum of the Moving Image publishes Sloan Science & Film to enhance understanding of science through film. This is a freely downloadable guide to…
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