Additional Qualifications

The following observations are designed to serve as probes and provocations to uncover the essence of some important ideas about media education and media studies. Based largely on the experience [...]

It seems that more than ever, we need the resources of global education and the insights of media literacy to help our young people gain the knowledge and develop the values, attitudes and skills [...]

A 3-Week Unit for Grade 9 (Academic)

My father had to complete grade 11 by correspondence because his teacher had completed only grade 10. While his mother was keenly interested in and supportive of her children's education, she [...]

Teachers are often reluctant to admit it, but one of the most common reasons why many are hesitant to bring media work into their courses is their fear of appearing to know less than their students.

Advocates for the inclusion in the curriculum of comics and graphic novels as 'literary' works are no doubt right about their potential to engage young readers, and perhaps even reluctant ones. [...]

True popular culture (not necessarily the mainstream, commercial products that call themselves 'pop culture') is made from within and below, not imposed from within or above. It is always a [...]

Purpose: To have students understand that the world around them can be read as a media text, and therefore interpreted as such; and to encourage critical literacy in that reading/interpretation. [...]

A 7 Day Ad Project for Secondary Level Media Studies Students

by Ian Esquivel Ah, the irony. I wonder if my brother would appreciate it? For entertainment as a child, I read lots of comics but mostly from a narrow field of “boy” stories, titles [...]